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Cuban people

Cubans
Cubanos
Total population
Unknown
Regions with significant populations
 Cuba11,167,325Decrease
2012 Cuba Census
11,239,004Increase
2015 Cuba Census
 United States (2015) 1,210,674
 Spain (2015) 134,003
 Canada (2011) 21,440
 Venezuela (2011) 20,991
 Italy (2011) 17,947
 Mexico (2013) 14,637
 Puerto Rico (2015) 12,605
 Germany (2014) 8,455
 Ecuador (2011) 6,717
 Costa Rica (2011) 3,860
 Colombia (2011) 3,689
 Dominican Republic (2010) 3,639
 Chile (2002) 3,163
 Sweden (2008) 2,905
 United Kingdom (2011) 2,481
 Argentina (2001) 2,457
 Brazil (2000) 1,343
  Switzerland (2000) 1,168
 Netherlands (2008) 1,123
 Norway (2014) 959

Cubans or Cuban people (Spanish: Cubanos) are the inhabitants or citizens of Cuba. Cuba is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. As a result, some Cubans do not treat their nationality as an ethnicity but as a citizenship with various ethnicities and national origins comprising the "Cuban people."

The majority of Cubans descend from Spaniards. Despite its multi-ethnic composition, the culture held in common by most Cubans is referred to as mainstream Cuban culture, a Western culture largely derived from the traditions of Western European migrants, beginning with the early Spanish settlers, along with other Europeans arriving later such as the Portuguese and French, along with West African culture which is somewhat influential despite the fact that most minority Afro-Cubans are of Caribbean origin.

The populations in the Spanish colonial era of Cuba (1774 -1898), U.S occupation (1899) were:

The population of Cuba was 11,167,325 inhabitants in 2012. The largest urban populations of Cubans in Cuba (2012) are to be found in Havana (2,106,146), Santiago de Cuba (506,037), Camagüey (323,309), Holguín (346,195), Guantánamo (228,436), and Santa Clara (240,543). According to Cuba's Oficina Nacional de Estadisticas ONE 2012 Census, the population was 11,167,325 including: 5,570,825 men and 5,596,500 women.

In the 2012 Census 64.1% or 7,160,399 self-identified as white. The majority of the ancestry of White Cubans comes from Spain. During the 18th, 19th and early part of the 20th century especially, large waves of Canary Islanders, Galicians, Asturians and Catalans emigrated from Spain to Cuba. Other European nationalities which immigrated include: English, Scots, Russians, Poles, Portuguese, Romanians, Italians, Greeks, French, Germans and Irish. Central and Eastern European influence was mostly during the Cold War years and immigration from the British Isles was mostly in Pinar del Rio Province and Havana. There is a small remnant of a Jewish community. There is also significant ethnic influx from diverse Levantine peoples, especially Lebanese, Palestinians, and Syrians.


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