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With almost 60 million native speakers and second language speakers, the United States now has the second-largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico. [38] Spanish is increasingly used alongside English nationwide in business and politics. Media in Spanish has also become influential outside of native Hispanophone circles.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
In the former Spanish province of Equatorial Guinea, although Portuguese and French are co-official languages, the majority of the population speak Spanish. [19] There is a small minority of African people who possessed Spanish and other European ancestry. These individuals form less than 1% of the population.
Spanish is the official language in most Hispanic American countries, and it is spoken by the vast majority of the population. Native American languages are widely spoken in Chile , Peru , Guatemala , Bolivia , Paraguay and Mexico , and, to a lesser degree, in Panama , Ecuador , Colombia , and Venezuela .
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 ]
Spanish immigration to Mexico began in 1519 and spans to the present day. [34] The first Spanish settlement was established in February 1519, as a result of the landing of Hernán Cortés in the Yucatán Peninsula, accompanied by about 11 ships, 500 men, 13 horses and a small number of cannons. [35]
Mexico, [a] [b] officially the United Mexican States, [c] is a country in the southern portion of North America.Covering 1,972,550 km 2 (761,610 sq mi), [12] it is the world's 13th largest country by area; with a population of over 130 million, it is the 10th most populous country and has the most Spanish speakers in the world. [1]
This is a list of South American countries and dependencies by population in South America, total projected population from the United Nations [1] and the latest official figure. Map [ edit ]