Cuba is a Caribbean island country. Cuba may also refer to: Places Cuba Palace, in Palermo, Italy Cuba Street, Wellington, a street and a quarter in the Central Business District of Wellington, New Zealand Cuba, Portugal, a municipality and town in the district of Beja La Cuba, a municipality in Teruel, Aragon, Spain Avon (county), a defunct county in the west of England, where CUBA is an acronym for the "County that Used to Be Avon" United States Cuba, Alabama Cuba, former name of Iceland, California Cuba, Georgia Cuba, Illinois Cuba, Indiana Cuba, Owen County, Indiana Cuba, Kansas Cuba, Kentucky Cuba, Minnesota Cuba, Missouri, a city in Crawford County Cuba, Lafayette County, Missouri, a ghost town Cuba, New Mexico Cuba (town), New York Cuba (village), New York, in the town of Cuba Cuba, Clinton County, Ohio Cuba, Putnam County, Ohio Cuba, West Virginia Cuba City, Wisconsin Cuba Lake, a reservoir in New York Cuba Township, Becker County, Minnesota Cuba Township, Lake County, Illinois People Alberto Cuba (born 1962), a Cuban long-distance runner Paul Cuba (1908–1990), an American football player Cuba Gooding, Sr. (1944–2017), a soul singer Cuba Gooding, Jr. (born 1968), a U.S. actor Ships Cuba, a New Zealand Company barque that brought surveyors to Wellington, New Zealand in 1840 SS Yorktown (1894), rebuilt in 1920 as the turbo-electric propelled passenger ship Cuba , formerly the German SS Coblenz (1897), renamed SS Cuba in 1920, that sank in 1923 , a French liner requisitioned as a UK troopship in 1940 and sunk by in 1945 Storms 1910 Cuba hurricane, a category four hurricane that stalled west of Cuba, causing devastating flooding 1924 Cuba hurricane, a category five hurricane that devastated western Cuba 1932 Cuba hurricane, a category five hurricane that devastated Cuba Other uses Cuba (board game), see Havana (board game) Cuba (film), a 1979 film Cuba (song), a Gibson Brothers song Cuba, a 1987 album by the band The Silos Chinese University Basketball Association, a basketball league Club Universitario de Buenos Aires, a sports club A common name for Hemianthus callitrichoides, an aquatic plant A Roman goddess; see List of Roman birth and childhood deities A synonym for the legume genus Tachigali See also CCUBA (Closed Circuit Underwater Breathing Apparatus), a type of breathing apparatus Cuban (disambiguation) Cube (disambiguation) Kuba (disambiguation) Quba