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Latin America is often used synonymously with Ibero-America ("Iberian America"), where the populations speak Spanish or Portuguese and the dominant religion is Roman Catholic. Puerto Rico , the Spanish-speaking Caribbean territory of the United States, acquired from the Spanish Empire following its defeat in the 1898 Spanish American War , is ...
Map of Latin America and the Caribbean. The term Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC [1]) is an English-language acronym referring to the Latin American and the Caribbean region. The term LAC covers an extensive region, extending from The Bahamas and Mexico to Argentina and Chile.
This is a list of Latin American countries and dependent territories by population, which is sorted by the 2015 mid-year normalized demographic projections. Table [ edit ]
Linguistic map of Latin America. Spanish in green, Portuguese in orange, and French in blue. Spanish and Portuguese are the predominant languages of Latin America. Spanish is the official language of most of the countries on the Latin American mainland, as well as in Puerto Rico (where it is co-official with English), Cuba and the Dominican ...
A 17th-century map of the Americas (from History of Latin America) Image 11 Agrarian reform poster, Guatemala 1952 (from History of Latin America ) Image 12 Che Guevara Cuban revolutionary poster (from History of Latin America )
Blank map: File:World map (Miller cylindrical projection, blank without Antarctica).svg United Nations Development Programme : Human Development Report 2021-22: Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a Transforming World , United Nations Development Programme, pp. 277–280 ISBN : 978-9-211-26451-7 .
Central America – Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, and Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina (legally part of Colombia, but off the coast of Central America.) Consists mainly of former territories of the Federal Republic of Central America.
The dominant language of Latin America is Spanish, though the most populous nation in Latin America, Brazil, speaks Portuguese. Small enclaves of French -, Dutch - and English-speaking regions also exist in Latin America, notably in French Guiana , Suriname , and Belize and Guyana respectively.