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Continent
Region
Europe
Country
Languages Spoken
Ethnic Groups
Spanish (official) 74%, Catalan 17%,
Galician 7%, Basque 2%, are official
regionally. (Spanish is spoken by
100% of the population, over 100%
indicates bilingual population).
Composite of Mediterranean
and Nordic types
Territory
Spain
Mexico
Spanish 92.7%, Spanish and
indigenous languages 5.7%,
Mestizo (European-Amerindian)
indigenous only 0.8%, unspecified
60%, Amerindian or
0.8%; (Indigenous languages include predominantly Amerindian 22%,
various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other
White 17%, other 1%
regional languages) (2005)
English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other
Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and
Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000
census) (Hawaiian is an official
language in the state of Hawaii).
North
America
United States
Note: While the U.S. is an English
speaking country, the historical
populations of Spanish-speakers
in the American West/Southwest,
and the large influx of immigrants
from Spanish speaking countries
in recent years[27] has grown a
population where 10% speak
Spanish.[28]
White 79.96%, Black 12.85%,
Asian 4.43%, Amerindian and
Alaska native 0.97%, native
Hawaiian and other Pacific
islander 0.18%, two or more
races 1.61% (July 2007
estimate)
Note: a separate listing for
Hispanic is not included
because the U.S. Census
Bureau considers Hispanic to
mean a person of Latin
American descent (including
persons of Cuban, Mexican,
or Puerto Rican origin) living
in the U.S. who may be of
any race or ethnic group
(white, black, Asian, etc.);
about 15.1% of the total U.S.
population is Hispanic.
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Belize
Spanish 43%, Creole 37%, Mayan
Mestizo 34%, Creole 25%,
dialects 7.8%, English 5.6% (official),
Spanish 15%, Maya 10.6%,
German 3.2%, Garifuna 2%, other Garifuna 6.1%, other 11% (2000
1.5%
census)
Costa Rica
Spanish (official), English
White 85%, Mestizo 10%, Black
3%, Amerindian 1%, Chinese 1%
El Salvador
Spanish, Nahua (among some
Amerindians)
Mestizo 90%, White 9%,
Amerindian 1%
Guatemala
Mestizo (mixed AmerindianSpanish - in local Spanish called
Spanish 70%, Amerindian languages
Ladino) and European 59.4%,
30% (23 officially recognized
K'iche 9.1%, Kaqchikel 8.4%,
Amerindian languages, including
Mam 7.9%, Q'eqchi 6.3%, other
Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam,
Mayan 8.6%, indigenous nonGarifuna, and Xinca).
Mayan 0.2%, other 0.1% (2001
census)
Honduras
Spanish, Amerindian dialects
Mestizo (mixed Amerindian and
European) 90%, Amerindian 7%,
Black 2%, White 1%
Nicaragua
Spanish 97.5% (official), Miskito
1.7%, other 0.8% (1995 census)
(English and indigenous languages
on Atlantic coast).
Mestizo (mixed Amerindian and
White) 69%, White 17%, Black
9%, Amerindian 5%
Central
America
Panama
Mestizo (mixed Amerindian and
Spanish (official), English 14% (many White) 70%, Amerindian and
Panamanians bilingual)
mixed (West Indian) 14%, White
10%, Amerindian 6%
Argentina
Spanish (official), Italian, English,
German, French
White (mostly Spanish and
Italian) 97%, Mestizo (mixed
White and Amerindian
ancestry), Amerindian, or other
non-White groups 3%
Bolivia
Spanish 60.7% (official), Quechua
21.2% (official), Aymara 14.6%
(official), foreign languages 2.4%,
other 1.2% (2001 census)
Quechua 30%, Mestizo (mixed
White and Amerindian ancestry)
30%, Aymara 25%, White 15%
Spanish (official), Mapudungun,
German, English
White and White-Amerindian
95.4%, Mapuche 4%, other
indigenous groups 0.6% (2002
census)
Colombia
Spanish
Mestizo 58%, White 20%,
Mulatto 14%, Black 4%, mixed
Black-Amerindian 3%,
Amerindian 1%
Ecuador
Spanish (official), Amerindian
languages (especially Quechua)
Mestizo (mixed Amerindian and
White) 65%, Amerindian 25%,
Spanish and others 7%, Black 3%
Paraguay
Spanish (official), Guarani (official)
Mestizo (mixed Spanish and
Amerindian) 95%, other 5%
Peru
Spanish (official), Quechua (official),
Aymara, and a large number of
minor Amazonian languages
Amerindian 45%, Mestizo
(mixed Amerindian and White)
37%, White 15%, Black,
Japanese, Chinese, and other
3%
Uruguay
Spanish, Portuñol, or Brazilero
(Portuguese-Spanish mix on the
Brazilian frontier)
White 88%, Mestizo 8%, Black
4%, Amerindian (practically
nonexistent)
Chile
South
America
Caribbean
Islands
Venezuela
Spanish (official), numerous
indigenous dialects
Mestizos (mixed Amerindian
and White), White, Africans and
Amerindians.
Cuba
Spanish
White 65.1%, Mulatto and
Mestizo 24.8%, Black 10.1%
(2002 census)
Dominican
Republic
Spanish
mixed 73%, White 16%, Black
11%
Spanish, English
white (mostly Spanish origin)
76.2%, black 6.9%, Asian 0.3%,
Amerindian 0.2%, mixed 4.4%,
other 12% (2007)
Puerto Rico
(Territory of the
U.S. with
Commonwealth
status)
Africa
Equatorial
Guinea
Spanish 67.6% (official), other 32.4%
(includes French (official), Fang,
Fang 85.7%, Bubi 6.5%, Mdowe
Bubi) (1994 census)
3.6%, Annobon 1.6%, Bujeba
1.1%, other 1.4% (1994 census)
Note: Equatorial Guinea was the only
Spanish colony in Sub-Saharan Africa.