What countries make up Latin America??

Question

And why is called that? They usually speak Spanish, not Latin.

Answer 1

It's basically south America, central America and Mexico and the Caribbean. And its called latin america because their culture is latin eg: latin food, latin music, etc. and their language spanish comes almost exclusively from latin.

The complete list of countries:

Mexico, belize, guatemala, Honduras, san salvadore, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, French Guyana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela...

That's just central and south American countries. The caribean nations are:

Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago.... list goes on forever of tiny little islands of 2,000 people.

Answer 2

Latin America, refers to the countries of America that speak romance languages, languages derived from latin. So it includes all countries that speak Portuguese, Spanish and French. Actually even though technically French is a latin language those countries usually are not considered Latin American since they're so different in terms of languare, culture, history, races, economy, etc, that it makes no sence to group them with the rest. That's why the term Iberian American would be the ideal. There are 20 countries in Latin America:

Brazil

Uruguay

Argentina

Chile

Paraguay

Bolivia

Peru

Ecuador

Colombia

Venezuela

Panama

Costa Rica

Nicaragua

Honduras

El Salvador

Guatemala

Mexico

Cuba

Dominican Republic

Puerto Rico (which is not an independent country)

Answer 3

Spain, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Chile, Ecuador, Panama, El Salvador, Peru, Cuba, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia and Puerto Rico even though the last one is under USA domain

Answer 4

I agree with the first 2 answers - no point writting the same.

Answer 5

Most of the counties in Latin America speak a Latin based language like Spanish or Portuguese. A few do not (such as Guyana, Belize, Jamaica and a few others)

Mexico,

Guatemala,

Belize,

Guatemala

El salvador

Honduras

Nicaragua

Costa rica

Panama

Colombia

Venezuela

Guyana

Suriname

French Guyana

Brazil

Peru

Ecuador

Chile

Bolivia

Paraguay

Argentina

Cuba

Haiti

Dominican Republic

Puerto Rico

Jamaica

Barbados

Dominica

St. Vincent and the Grenadine

Virgin Islands (both US and UK)

Bahamas

Barbuda

Trinidad and Tobago

Netherlands Antilles

Grenada

Martinique and Guadalupe

St. Maarten

Turks and Caicos

Answer 6

you will find whatever u need about LATIN AMERICA here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_ameri...

hope i helped.