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Latin Countries

Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic El Salvador Ecuador Guatemala. Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Portugal Puerto Rico Spain Uruguay Venezuela. Latin Countries. Caribbean. Cuba Dominican Republic Puerto Rico. Cuba.

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Latin Countries

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  1. Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic El Salvador Ecuador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Portugal Puerto Rico Spain Uruguay Venezuela Latin Countries

  2. Caribbean • Cuba • Dominican Republic • Puerto Rico

  3. Cuba

  4. Cuba Demographics • Full country name: Republic of Cuba • Area: 110,860 sq km • Population: 11 million • Capital city: Havana • Language: Spanish • Religion:47% Roman Catholic, 4%Protestant • Government: Communist Republic • Head of State: Fidel Castro

  5. Dominican Republic

  6. Dominican Republic Demographics • Area: 48,730 sq km (18,814.8 sq miles) • Population: 8.5 million • Capital city: Santo Domingo • Language: Spanish • Religion: 95% Roman Catholic • Government: Representative Democracy • President: Leonel Fernández

  7. Puerto Rico

  8. Puerto Rico Demographics • Area: 9100 sq km (3500 sq miles) • Population: 3,915,798 • Capital city: San Juan • Language: Spanish, English • Religion: 85% Roman Catholic, Protestant • Government: Commonwealth of the US • Governor: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá

  9. Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama Central America

  10. Costa Rica

  11. Costa Rica Demographics • Full country name: Republic of Costa Rica • Area: 51,100 sq km (19,929 sq mi) • Population: 3.8 million • Capital city: San José • Language: Spanish, Creole English & Indian dialects • Religion: 85% Roman Catholic, Protestant • Government: Democracy • President-elect: Oscar Arias Sanchez

  12. El Salvador

  13. El Salvador Demographics • Full country name: Republic of El Salvador • Area: 20,752 sq km (8,093 sq mi) • Population: 6,122,515 • Capital city: San Salvador • Language: Spanish, some Nahua • Religion: 75% Roman Catholic, 20%Protestant • Government: Republic • President: Elías Antonio Saca Gonzalez

  14. Guatemala

  15. Guatemala Demographics • Full country name: Republic of Guatemala • Area: 109,000 sq km (42,500 sq mi) • Population: 12.6 million • Capital city: Guatemala City • Language: Spanish, Garífuna & 21 Mayan Languajes • Religion: Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Mayan-Catholic fusion • Government: Democratic • President: Oscar Berger Perdomo

  16. Honduras

  17. Honduras Demographics • Full country name: Republic of Honduras • Area: 112,492 sq km (43,870 sq mi) • Population: 6,249,598 million • Capital city: Tegucigalpa • Language: Spanish, Creole English & Indian dialects • Religion: 85% Roman Catholic, Other Christian sects & Indigenous forms of worship • Government: Constitutional Democracy • President: Manuel Zelaya

  18. Nicaragua

  19. Nicaragua Demographics • Full country name: Republic of Nicaragua • Area: 129,494 sq km (50,180 sq mi) • Population: 5.2 million • Capital city: Managua • Language: Spanish, Creole English & Miskito • Religion: 73% Roman Catholic, 16% Protestant • Government: Republic • President-elect: Enrique Bolaños

  20. Panama

  21. Panama Demographics • Full country name: Republic of Panama • Area: 78,000 sq km (30,420 sq mi) • Population: 2.8 million • Capital city: Panama City • Language: Spanish,English & Indian languages • Religion: 85% Roman Catholic, 10% Protestant, 5% Islamic • Government: Constitutional Republic • President-elect: Martin Torrijos Espino

  22. Europe • Spain • Portugal

  23. Spain

  24. Spain Demographics • Full country name: Kingdom of Spain • Area: 504,784 sq km • Population: 40.5 million • Capital city: Madrid • Language: Castilian Spanish (also Catalan,Galician & Basque) • Religion: 90% Roman Catholic • Government: Parliamentary monarchy • Prime Minister: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero • King: Juan Carlos I

  25. Portugal

  26. Portugal Demographics • Area: 35,672 sq km (92,389 sq mi) • Population: 10.3 million • Capital city: Lisbon • Language: Portuguese • Religion: 97% Roman Catholic, 2% Protestant • Government: Parliamentary Democracy • President: Aníbal Cavaco Silva • Prime Minister: José Socrates

  27. North America • Mexico

  28. Mexico

  29. Mexico Demographics • Full country name: Estados Unidos Méxicano • Area: 1,958,200 sq km (758,866 sq mi) • Population: 100,350,000 • Capital city: Mexico City • Language: Spanish & 59 indigenous languages • Religion: 90% Roman Catholic, 6% Protestant • Government: Federal Republic • President-elect: Vincente Fox Quesada

  30. Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Uruguay Venezuela South America

  31. Argentina

  32. Argentina Demographics • Full country name: República Argentina • Area: 2,776,890 sq km (1,083,000 sq mi) • Population: 37,812,817 • Capital city: Buenos Aires • Language: Spanish, 17 Indigenous languages • Religion: 93% Roman Catholic, 2.5%Protestant, 2% Jewish, 1.5% Ukranian Catholic, 1% Armenian Orthodox • Government: Republic • Interim-President: Nestor Kirchener

  33. Bolivia

  34. Bolivia Demographics • Full country name: Republic of Bolivia • Area: 1,098,580 sq km (428,446 sq mi) • Population: 8,328,700 • Capital city: La Paz • Language: Spanish, Quechua, Aymará & Composite dialects of Spanish-Quechua & Spanish-Aymará • Religion: 95% Roman Catholic, Protestant (Evangelical Methodist) • Government: Democracy • President: Jorge Evo Morales

  35. Brazil

  36. Brazil Demographics • Full country name: República Federativa do Brasil • Area: 8,514,215 sq km (3,286,487 sq mi) • Population: 175 million • Capital city: Brasília • Language: Portuguese • Religion: 70% Roman Catholic, a significant portion who either belong to various cults or practice Indian animism • Government: Federal Republic • President: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

  37. Chile

  38. Chile Demographics • Full country name: Republic of Chile • Area: 756,950 sq km (292,500 sq mi) • Population: 15 million • Capital city: Santiago • Language: Spanish, a handful of native languages (Aymara, Mapuche & Rapa Nui) • Religion: 89% Roman Catholic, 10% Protestant, less than 1% Jewish • Government: Republic • President: Michelle Bachelet

  39. Colombia

  40. Colombia Demographics • Full country name: Republic of Colombia • Area: 1,141,748 sq km (440,830 sq mi) • Population: 39,685,000 • Capital city: Bogotá • Language: Castilian Spanish, over 200 indigenous languajes • Religion: 95% Roman Catholic, Episcopal & Jewish • Government: Democracy • President: Alvaro Uribe Vélez

  41. Ecuador

  42. Ecuador Demographics • Area: 283,520 sq km (175,780 sq mi) • Population: 12,920,092 • Capital city: Quito • Language: Spanish, Quechua,Quichua & Other indigenous languajes • Religion: 90% Roman Catholic, Other Christian denominations • Government: Democracy • President: Alfredo Palacio

  43. Paraguay

  44. Paraguay Demographics • Full country name: República del Paraguay • Area: 407,000 sq km (158,730 sq mi) • Population: 5,585,828 • Capital city: Asunción • Language: Spanish, Guaraní • Religion: 97% Roman Catholic, 3% Mennonite & other Protestant • Government: Republic • President: Oscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos

  45. Peru

  46. Peru Demographics • Full country name: Republic of Peru • Area: 1,285,215 sq km (501,234 sq mi) • Population: 27,012,899 • Capital city: Lima • Language: Spanish, Quechua, Aymara • Religion: 90% Roman Catholic, Protestant • Government: Democracy • President: Alan Gracia • Prime Minister: Jorge del Castillo

  47. Uruguay

  48. Uruguay Demographics • Full country name: República Oriental del Uruguay • Area: 187,000 sq km (72,930 sq mi) • Population: 3,334,074 • Capital city: Montevideo • Language: Spanish • Religion: 66% Roman Catholic, 2% Protestant, 2% Jewish • Government: Republic • President: Tabaré Vázquez

  49. Venezuela

  50. Venezuela Demographics • Full country name: República Bolivariana de Venezuela • Area: 912,050 sq km (355,700 sq mi) • Population: 23,543,000 • Capital city: Caracas • Language: Spanish, More than 30 Amerindian languajes • Religion: 96% Roman Catholic, 2% Protestant • Government: Federal Republic • Head of State: Hugo Chávez

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