The Hispanic World

The Hispanic, or Spanish-speaking world is a very hetegoreneous set of countries which were once part of the Spanish empire and are now primarily Spanish-speaking.

The Hispanic world consists of Spain, itself a heterogeneous country with 3 minority languages, 20 nation states in the Americas plus Puerto Rico, and some would also add two small former colonies in Africa where Spanish is the official language.

Below you can see a list of the Spanish speaking countries

Mestizo: mixed white (European) and Amerindian ancestry
Amerindian: indigenous people of the Americans (equivalent to American Indian in US)
Mulatto: mixed white (European) and African

Country/Flag	Population	Racial/ethnic composition	Sources of information
Argentina	39,921,833	White (mostly Spanish and Italian) 97%; mestizo, Amerindian, or other non-white groups 3%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia geographia.com LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Bolivia	8,989,046	Quechua 30%, mestizo 30%, Aymara 25%, white 15%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies geographia.com LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Chile	16,134,219	White and white-Amerindian 95%, Amerindian 3%, other 2%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies geographia.com LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Colombia	43,593,035	Mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies geographia.com LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Costa Rica	4,075,261	white (including mestizo) 94%, black 3%, Amerindian 1%, Chinese 1%, other 1%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia geographia.com LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept. www.visitcostarica.com
Cuba	11,382,820	Mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Dominican Republic	9,183,984	mixed 73%, white 16%, black 11%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Ecuador	13,547,510	Mestizo 65%, Amerindian 25%, Spanish and others 7%, black 3%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies geographia.com LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
El Salvador	6,822,378	Mestizo 90%, white 9%, Amerindian 1%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Equatorial Guinea	540,109	Bioko (primarily Bubi, some Fernandinos), Rio Muni (primarily Fang), Europeans less than 1,000, mostly Spanish	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Guatemala	12,293,545	Mestizo (in local Spanish called Ladino) and European 59.4%, K'iche 9.1%, Kaqchikel 8.4%, Mam 7.9%, Q'eqchi 6.3%, other Mayan 8.6%, indigenous non-Mayan 0.2%, other 0.1% (2001 census)	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Honduras	7,326,496	Mestizo 90%, Amerindian 7%, black 2%, white 1%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Mexico	107,449,525	Mestizo 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies geographia.com LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Nicaragua	5,570,129	Mestizo 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Panama	3,191,319	Mestizo 70%, Amerindian and mixed (West Indian) 14%, white 10%, Amerindian 6%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Paraguay	6,506,464	Mestizo 95%, other 5%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Peru	28,302,603	Amerindian 45%, mestizo 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies geographia.com LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Puerto Rico	3,927,188	White (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%, black 8%, Amerindian 0.4%, Asian 0.2%, mixed and other 10.9%	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia LANIC Lonely Planet
Spain (Espaņa)	40,397,842	Primarily white. A composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies spain.info Lonely Planet US State Dept.
United States (Estados Unidos) (for comparison)	298,444,215	White 81.7%, Black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Amerindian and Alaska native 1%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.2% (2003 est.) Note: a separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent (including persons of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin) living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group (white, black, Asian, etc.)	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies Lonely Planet
Uruguay	3,431,932	White 88%, mestizo 8%, black 4%, Amerindian (practically nonexistent)	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.
Venezuela	25,730,435	68 percent mestizo, 21 percent unmixed Caucasian, 10 percent black, and 1 percent Indian	CIA World Factbook Wikipedia (English) Wikipedia (Espaņol) Frommer's Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia Country Studies Encyclopedia Britannica Encarta Encyclopedia geographia.com LANIC Lonely Planet US State Dept.

Other sources of information about countries

• Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
• Lonely Planet
  
• US State Dept.
• latinworld.com
• latintravel.com
• mundolatino.com
• spanishstudies.com
• www.univision.com
• espanol.yahoo.com
• The Library of Congress: Country Studies
• www.zonalatina.com: travel
• Amnesty International
• New Internationalist: Latin America
• Human Rights Watch: Americas