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Havana (Province of Cuba)

a province of Cuba, in the western part of the island, from the HAVANA Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean Sea, bounded on the west by the province of Pinar del Rio, and on the east by the province of Matanzas. Although the smallest of the provinces of Cuba (area 31.74 square miles), it is the second largest in the point of population, which in 1919 was 697,583. It is also commercially the most important province of the Republic, having many large cigar and cigarette factories, sugar and saw mills, distilleries, tanneries, and foundries. Its surface is low and undulating. Besides valuable cabinet timber from its many forests it produces bananas, corn, pineapples, sugar cane, tobacco, vegetables, and yucca. The capital is Havana (q. v.).