Identifier: statemansyearboo1899wrig (find matches)
Title: The Statemans Yearbook : Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Carroll D.
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Publisher: The MacMillan Co. NY
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries

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oau>r ic ca.,EN^<!8,N.r. CUBA —POPULATION, FINANCES, MINERALS ccli Area and Population The area of Cuba is about 45,872 square miles. Ten per cent of thearea is cultivated, 7 per cent is unreclaimed, and 4 per cent is underforests. There are large tracts of country still unexplored. The popula-lation of the island in 1894 was given as 1,631,090, of which 65 per centwas white, the remainder being negro. The capital, Havana, has 200,000inhabitants; Matanzas (1892), 27,000; Santiago de Cuba, 71,307; Cien-fuegos (1892), 27,430; Puerto Principe, 46,641; Holguin, 34,767; SanctiSpiritu, 32,608 ; Cardenas (1892), 23,680. Education was made obliga-tory in 1880. There are 843 public schools in the Island, and Havanahas a university. Consul Hyatt, of Santiago de Cuba, in a report dated Jan. 8, 1897,and printed in Consular Reports No. 197 (February, 1897), p. 262, saysthat the area of Cuba is about equal to that of the State of Pennsyl-vania, the length being 775 miles and the width varyi

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