Cuba (Alternity)

Cuba is a US state located in the Caribbean and is the largest island in the Greater Antilles island chain. Cuba is separated from the rest of the United States by the ninety-miles of the Straits of Florida, under which runs the Florida-Cuba Transit Tunnel - a high-speed rail line linking both Miami and Key West in Florida with McKinley in Cuba - frequently dubbed the 'American Chunnel'. At just over a hundred miles in length (with ninety miles under the Florida Strait), the FCTT is the longest undersea tunnel in the world, at nearly three times the length of the Columbia-Washington Juan de Fuca Tunnel and Europe's Channel Tunnel.

Admitted to the Union as the 55th state on August 2, 1949, Cuba was acquired from Spain through the Treaty of Havana negotiated and eventually signed by President William McKinley in June 1903, shortly before he died of organ failure. The treaty gave the Philippines their independence, and transferred Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Serranilla Islands, Guam, and the Northern Marianas to American control. Cuba is the 11th largest state in the US, with a population of 11.5 million, and is one of only three states where Spanish is the official second language (the others being Baja California and Puerto Rico), due to the state's majority Hispanic population (51.4% White (Hispanic), 40% White (non-Hispanic), and 8.6% of other various races).

Counties
Cuba consists of eleven counties, each subdivided into seventeen townships (Alexandria, Varadero, and Havana Counties possess nineteen), for a statewide total of 193 townships. All eleven counties are listed below in order of population.

