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Patron Saint: Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre (September 8)

Saints: 1 Saint, 3 Blesseds

Continent: Central America

Capital: Havana

Area: 109,820 km²

Population: 11,147,407

Neighbouring Countries: ← Mexico , ↖ USA , ↑ Bahamas , ↗ Turks and Caicos Islands , → Haiti , ↘ Jamaica , ↓ Cayman Islands

Religions: nominally Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jewish, Santeria

Languages: Spanish (official)

Ethnic Groups: white 64.1%, mulatto or mixed 26.6%, black 9.3%

Motto: Patria o muerte (Spanish) (Homeland or death)

Area: 110,861 km²

Catholic Population: 6,571,000 Catholics (58.7% of 11,194,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 298 parishes, 1,728 mission stations (50 with resident priest, 1,678 without resident priest), 619 other centres

Clergy: 17 bishops (10 diocesan, 7 titular), 315 priests (192 diocesan, 123 religious), 87 permanent deacons (85 diocesan, 2 religious)

Non-Clergy: 503 religious (35 brothers, 468 sisters), 27 members of secular institutes (7 brothers, 20 sisters), 60 major seminarians, 1,246 missionaries, 2,005 catechists