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lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Hispanophonie" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribuci%C3%B3n_geogr%C3%A1fica_del_idioma_espa%C3%B1ol" title="Distribución geográfica del idioma español – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Distribución geográfica del idioma español" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86" title="اسپانیایی‌زبان – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اسپانیایی‌زبان" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" 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href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish language</a>. </p><p>In a cultural, rather than merely linguistic sense, the notion of "Hispanophone" goes further than the above definition. The <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic culture">Hispanic culture</a> is the legacy of the vast and prolonged <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish Empire</a>, and so the term can refer to people whose cultural background is primarily associated with Spain, regardless of <a href="/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)" title="Race (human categorization)">racial</a> or geographical differences. The whole sense of identity of the Hispanic population and the Hispanophones is sometimes referred by the term <i><a href="/wiki/Hispanidad" title="Hispanidad">Hispanidad</a></i> (Hispanicity). </p><p>When used in terms to refer to speakers of the Spanish language and the Spanish-speaking world, the <b>Hispanosphere</b> encompasses the following geographical areas: Spain, <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_America" title="Hispanic America">Hispanic America</a>, <a href="/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea" title="Equatorial Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</a>, and portions of the United States (namely the <a href="/wiki/Southwestern_United_States" title="Southwestern United States">Southwest</a> and <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When used in the broader sense to include areas where the local culture has been heavily impacted by Hispanic influences, the former <a href="/wiki/Spanish_East_Indies" title="Spanish East Indies">Spanish East Indies</a> colonies of <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> and to a lesser extent, <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a> are also included. </p><p>The terms are derived from the <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a> word <i>Hispanicus</i> ("Spanish") which refers to anything pertaining to the Roman province of <a href="/wiki/Hispania" title="Hispania">Hispania</a> ("Spain"). In addition to the general definition of Hispanophone, some groups in the Hispanic world make a distinction between Castilian-speaking<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>i<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Spanish-speaking, with the former term denoting the speakers of the Spanish language—<a href="/wiki/Names_given_to_the_Spanish_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Names given to the Spanish language">also known as Castilian</a>—and the latter the speakers of the Spanish or Hispanic languages (i.e. the <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Spain" title="Languages of Spain">languages of Spain</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Hispanic_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Languages of Hispanic America">languages of the Hispanic nations</a>). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Hispanosphere">The Hispanosphere</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: The Hispanosphere"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Hispanic_peoples.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Flag_of_the_Hispanic_peoples.svg/250px-Flag_of_the_Hispanic_peoples.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Flag_of_the_Hispanic_peoples.svg/500px-Flag_of_the_Hispanic_peoples.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1772" data-file-height="1063" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Hispanic_People" title="Flag of the Hispanic People">Flag of the Hispanic People</a>, adopted 12 October 1932</figcaption></figure> <p>There are an estimated 474.7 million native Spanish speakers and about 100 million second and foreign language speakers around the world as of 2022, totaling 574 million Hispanophones in total.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This makes Spanish the <a href="/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers" title="List of languages by number of native speakers">second most natively spoken language</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers" title="List of languages by total number of speakers">fourth most spoken language</a> overall globally. The vast majority of Hispanophones are concentrated in the Hispanosphere, the countries and territories where Spanish is a native or significant language. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Countries">Countries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Countries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Hispanicity" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanicity">Hispanicity</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Empire" title="Spanish Empire">Spanish Empire</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lang-es.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Lang-es.gif/250px-Lang-es.gif" decoding="async" width="250" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Lang-es.gif/500px-Lang-es.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Lang-es.gif 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="333" /></a><figcaption>Countries where Spanish is considered the official language <i>de jure</i> or <i>de facto</i></figcaption></figure> <p>During the Spanish period between 1492 and 1898, many people from Spain <a href="/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="Spanish colonization of the Americas">migrated to the new lands they had conquered</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Spaniards" title="Spaniards">Spaniards</a> took with them their language and culture, and integrated within the society they had settled, creating a large empire that stretched all over the world and producing several multiracial populations. Their influences are found in the following continents and countries that were originally colonized by the Spaniards.<sup id="cite_ref-GlobalSpanish_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GlobalSpanish-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries where Spanish is an official language">List of countries where Spanish is an official language</a></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right"> <tbody><tr> <th>Rank</th> <th style="text-align:center">Country/territory</th> <th style="text-align:center">Spanish-speaking<br />population<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>Area (km<sup>2</sup>)</th> <th>Area (sq mi) </th></tr> <tr> <td>1</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a></td> <td>130,118,356</td> <td>1,964,375</td> <td>761,610 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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<td>47,615,034</td> <td>505,944</td> <td>195,365 </td></tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a></td> <td>46,234,830</td> <td>2,780,400</td> <td>1,073,500 </td></tr> <tr> <td>6</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Guatemala.svg/23px-Flag_of_Guatemala.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Guatemala.svg/35px-Flag_of_Guatemala.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Guatemala.svg/46px-Flag_of_Guatemala.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a></td> <td>17,357,886</td> <td>108,889</td> <td>42,042 </td></tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Flag_of_Ecuador.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ecuador.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Flag_of_Ecuador.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ecuador.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Flag_of_Ecuador.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ecuador.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="960" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Ecuador" title="Ecuador">Ecuador</a></td> <td>16,149,014</td> <td>283,561</td> <td>109,484 </td></tr> <tr> <td>11</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Bolivia.svg/40px-Flag_of_Bolivia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Bolivia.svg/60px-Flag_of_Bolivia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="750" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a></td> <td>12,006,031</td> <td>1,098,581</td> <td>424,164 </td></tr> <tr> <td>12</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Flag_of_Cuba.svg/40px-Flag_of_Cuba.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Flag_of_Cuba.svg/60px-Flag_of_Cuba.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a></td> <td>11,305,652</td> <td>109,884</td> <td>42,426 </td></tr> <tr> <td>13</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_the_Dominican_Republic.svg/40px-Flag_of_the_Dominican_Republic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_the_Dominican_Republic.svg/60px-Flag_of_the_Dominican_Republic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a></td> <td>10,621,938</td> <td>48,671</td> <td>18,792 </td></tr> <tr> <td>14</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Flag_of_Honduras.svg/40px-Flag_of_Honduras.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Flag_of_Honduras.svg/60px-Flag_of_Honduras.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a></td> <td>9,523,621</td> <td>112,492</td> <td>43,433 </td></tr> <tr> <td>15</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Paraguay.svg/40px-Flag_of_Paraguay.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Paraguay.svg/60px-Flag_of_Paraguay.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="660" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Paraguay" title="Paraguay">Paraguay</a></td> <td>7,453,695</td> <td>406,752</td> <td>157,065 </td></tr> <tr> <td>16</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_Nicaragua.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nicaragua.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_Nicaragua.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nicaragua.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_Nicaragua.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nicaragua.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a></td> <td>6,779,100</td> <td>130,374</td> <td>50,338 </td></tr> <tr> <td>17</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg/23px-Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg/35px-Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg/46px-Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1005" data-file-height="567" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a></td> <td>6,550,389</td> <td>21,041</td> <td>8,124 </td></tr> <tr> <td>18</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Costa_Rica.svg/40px-Flag_of_Costa_Rica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Costa_Rica.svg/60px-Flag_of_Costa_Rica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Costa_Rica" title="Costa Rica">Costa Rica</a></td> <td>5,213,374</td> <td>51,179</td> <td>19,760 </td></tr> <tr> <td>19</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Flag_of_Panama.svg/40px-Flag_of_Panama.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Flag_of_Panama.svg/60px-Flag_of_Panama.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Panama" title="Panama">Panama</a></td> <td>4,446,964</td> <td>75,417</td> <td>29,119 </td></tr> <tr> <td>20</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/23px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/35px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/45px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay">Uruguay</a></td> <td>3,444,263</td> <td>181,034</td> <td>69,898 </td></tr> <tr> <td>21</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg/40px-Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg/60px-Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a></td> <td>3,285,874</td> <td>9,104</td> <td>3,515 </td></tr> <tr> <td>22</td> <td align="left"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Equatorial_Guinea.svg/40px-Flag_of_Equatorial_Guinea.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Equatorial_Guinea.svg/60px-Flag_of_Equatorial_Guinea.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" 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data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Hispanophone" title="Special:EditPage/Hispanophone">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2023</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Spain" title="Languages of Spain">Languages of Spain</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spain_languages-en.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Spain_languages-en.svg/220px-Spain_languages-en.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Spain_languages-en.svg/330px-Spain_languages-en.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Spain_languages-en.svg/440px-Spain_languages-en.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1488" data-file-height="1052" /></a><figcaption>The languages of Spain</figcaption></figure> <p>The modern-day nationalities that live in the region of ancient <a href="/wiki/Hispania" title="Hispania">Hispania</a> are the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_people" title="Portuguese people">Portuguese</a>, Spanish, Andorran and <a href="/wiki/Gibraltarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Gibraltarian">Gibraltarian</a> people. <a href="/wiki/History_of_Spain" title="History of Spain">Historically</a>, the modern country of Spain was formed by the accretion of several independent <a href="/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula" title="Iberian Peninsula">Iberian</a> kingdoms through dynastic inheritance, conquest and the will of the local elites. These kingdoms had their own nationalistic<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (September 2021)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> loyalties and political borders. </p><p>Today, there is no single Castilian–Spanish<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (September 2021)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> identity for the whole country. Spain is a <i>de facto</i> <a href="/wiki/Plurinationalism" title="Plurinationalism">plurinational state</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Many Spanish citizens feel no conflict in recognising their multiple ethnic identities at the same time. Spain is a culturally heterogeneous country, home to a wide range of cultures, each one with its own customs and traditions. Some such cultures have <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Spain" title="Languages of Spain">their own language</a>. Since the beginning of the <a href="/wiki/Transition_to_democracy_in_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Transition to democracy in Spain">transition to democracy in Spain</a> and the creation of the Spanish <i><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_communities" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous communities">autonomous communities</a></i>, after <a href="/wiki/Francoist_Spain" title="Francoist Spain">Francoist Spain</a>, there have been many movements towards more autonomy (<a href="/wiki/Decentralisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Decentralisation">delegation of powers</a>) in certain territories of the country, some with the aim of achieving full independence and others with the goal of improving the system of devolution and the state of the autonomies (or self-government entities). </p><p>The existence of multiple distinct cultures in Spain allows an analogy to be drawn to the United Kingdom.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Using the term Spanish for someone of Spanish descent would then be expected to be equivalent to using <a href="/wiki/British_people" title="British people">Briton</a> to describe someone descending from some part of the United Kingdom. Cultures within the United Kingdom, such as English, Irish, <a href="/wiki/Scottish_people" title="Scottish people">Scottish</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Welsh_people" title="Welsh people">Welsh</a>, would then correspond in this analogy to cultures within Spain such as <a href="/wiki/Castilian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Castilian people">Castilian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Catalan_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Catalan people">Catalan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Galician_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Galician people">Galician</a> and <a href="/wiki/Basque_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Basque people">Basque</a> among others. In contrast with Spain, because of centuries of gradual and mutual consolidation across the Iberian Peninsula, such distinctions tend to be blurred. It is a subtle, yet important, distinction. </p><p>In Spain, as in the United Kingdom, the economically dominant territories—<a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Castile" title="Kingdom of Castile">Castile</a> and England—spread their language for mutual communication. However, the political dominance in the United Kingdom tends to be sharper compared to Spain, where most of <a href="/wiki/History_of_Spain#Dynastic_union_of_the_Catholic_Monarchs" title="History of Spain">medieval realms</a> do not correspond with the actual boundaries of the autonomous communities, and the crown was unified into a sole <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_Spain" title="Monarchy of Spain">monarch</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Americas">Americas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Americas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hispanic_America">Hispanic America</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Hispanic 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demography</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Origins and demography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spanish_spoken_at_home_in_the_United_States_2019.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Spanish_spoken_at_home_in_the_United_States_2019.svg/250px-Spanish_spoken_at_home_in_the_United_States_2019.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Spanish_spoken_at_home_in_the_United_States_2019.svg/330px-Spanish_spoken_at_home_in_the_United_States_2019.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Spanish_spoken_at_home_in_the_United_States_2019.svg/500px-Spanish_spoken_at_home_in_the_United_States_2019.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="959" data-file-height="593" /></a><figcaption>Percentage of the U.S. population aged 5 and over who speak the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language_in_the_United_States" title="Spanish language in the United States">Spanish language at home</a> in 2019, by states.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans_by_county.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans_by_county.png/220px-Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans_by_county.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans_by_county.png/330px-Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans_by_county.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans_by_county.png/440px-Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans_by_county.png 2x" data-file-width="7500" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Distribution of <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanics in the U.S.</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020 United States census</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>U.S. Hispanics are citizens of the United States whose ancestry or national origin is of any of the nations composing the Hispanosphere. A Hispanic person's status is independent from whether or not he or she speaks the Spanish language, for not all Hispanic Americans speak Spanish. A Hispanic person may be of any race (White, Amerindian, mixed, Black, Asian or Pacific Islander). As of 2013<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> Hispanics accounted for 17.1% of the population, around 53.2 million people.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was an increase of 29% since 2004, when Hispanics were 14.1% of the population (around 41.3 million people). The Hispanic growth rate over the July 1, 2003 to July 1, 2004, period was 3.6% — higher than any other ancestral group in the United States — and more than three times the rate of the nation's total population (at 1.0%). The projected Hispanic population of the United States for July 1, 2050, is 105.6 million people. According to this projection, Hispanics will constitute 25% of the nation's total population by the year 2050.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Historically, a continuous Hispanic presence in the territory of the United States has existed since the 16th century, earlier than any other group after the <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Amerindians</a>. Spaniards pioneered the present-day United States. The first confirmed European landing on the continent was that of <a href="/wiki/Juan_Ponce_de_Le%C3%B3n" title="Juan Ponce de León">Juan Ponce de León</a>, who landed in 1513 on the shore he christened <i><a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">La Florida</a></i>. Within three decades of Ponce de León's landing, the Spanish became the first Europeans to reach the <a href="/wiki/Appalachian_Mountains" title="Appalachian Mountains">Appalachian Mountains</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Canyon" title="Grand Canyon">Grand Canyon</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Great_Plains" title="Great Plains">Great Plains</a>. Spanish ships sailed along the <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="East Coast of the United States">East Coast</a>, penetrating to present-day <a href="/wiki/Bangor,_Maine" title="Bangor, Maine">Bangor, Maine</a>, and up the <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States">Pacific Coast</a> as far as <a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a>. </p><p>In 1540 <a href="/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_(explorer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hernando de Soto (explorer)">Hernando de Soto</a> undertook an extensive exploration of the present United States. In the same year <a href="/wiki/Francisco_V%C3%A1squez_de_Coronado" class="mw-redirect" title="Francisco Vásquez de Coronado">Francisco Vásquez de Coronado</a> led 2,000 Spaniards and Mexican Indians across today's <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a>–Mexico border and traveled as far as central <a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a>, close to the exact geographic center of what is now the continental United States. Other Spanish explorers of the United States make up a long list that includes, among others, <a href="/wiki/Lucas_V%C3%A1squez_de_Ayll%C3%B3n" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón">Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón</a>, <a href="/wiki/P%C3%A1nfilo_de_Narv%C3%A1ez" title="Pánfilo de Narváez">Pánfilo de Narváez</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Vizca%C3%ADno" title="Sebastián Vizcaíno">Sebastián Vizcaíno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Juan_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Cabrillo" title="Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo">Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gaspar_de_Portol%C3%A0" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaspar de Portolà">Gaspar de Portolà</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Men%C3%A9ndez_de_Avil%C3%A9s" title="Pedro Menéndez de Avilés">Pedro Menéndez de Avilés</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvar_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_Cabeza_de_Vaca" title="Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca">Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trist%C3%A1n_de_Luna_y_Arellano" title="Tristán de Luna y Arellano">Tristán de Luna y Arellano</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Juan_de_O%C3%B1ate" title="Juan de Oñate">Juan de Oñate</a>. In all, Spaniards probed half of today's lower 48 states before the first English colonization attempt at <a href="/wiki/Roanoke_Island" title="Roanoke Island">Roanoke Island</a> in 1585. </p><p>The Spanish created the first permanent European settlement in the continental United States, at <a href="/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida" title="St. Augustine, Florida">St. Augustine, Florida</a>, in 1565. <a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe,_New_Mexico" title="Santa Fe, New Mexico">Santa Fe, New Mexico</a> also predates <a href="/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia" title="Jamestown, Virginia">Jamestown, Virginia</a> (founded in 1607) and <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Colony" title="Plymouth Colony">Plymouth Colony</a> (of <i><a href="/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower">Mayflower</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Pilgrims" class="mw-redirect" title="Pilgrims">Pilgrims</a> fame, founded in 1620). Later came Spanish settlements in <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tucson" class="mw-redirect" title="Tucson">Tucson</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a>, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, to name just a few. The Spanish even established a <a href="/wiki/Jesuit" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesuit">Jesuit</a> <a href="/wiki/Ajac%C3%A1n_Mission" title="Ajacán Mission">mission</a> in <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay" title="Chesapeake Bay">Chesapeake Bay</a> 37 years before the founding of Jamestown. </p><p>Two iconic American stories have Spanish antecedents, too. Almost 80 years before <a href="/wiki/John_Smith_of_Jamestown" class="mw-redirect" title="John Smith of Jamestown">John Smith</a>'s alleged rescue by <a href="/wiki/Pocahontas" title="Pocahontas">Pocahontas</a>, a man by the name of <a href="/wiki/Juan_Ortiz_de_Z%C3%A1rate" title="Juan Ortiz de Zárate">Juan Ortiz</a> told of his remarkably similar rescue from execution by an Indian girl. Spaniards also held a <a href="/wiki/Thanksgiving" title="Thanksgiving">thanksgiving</a>—56 years before the famous Pilgrims <a href="/wiki/Harvest_festival" title="Harvest festival">festival</a>—when they feasted near St. Augustine with Florida Indians, probably on stewed pork and garbanzo beans. As late as 1783, at the end of the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>, Spain held claim to roughly half of today's continental United States (see <a href="/wiki/New_Spain" title="New Spain">New Spain</a>); in 1775, Spanish ships even reached <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>. From 1819 to 1848, the United States increased the nation's area by roughly a third of former Spanish and Mexican territory, including today's three most populous states: California, <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, and Florida. Hispanics became the first American citizens in the newly acquired <a href="/wiki/Southwestern_United_States" title="Southwestern United States">Southwest</a> territory and remained the ancestral majority in several states until the 20th century, and a large minority in the 21st century. </p><p>Hispanic Americans have fought in all the <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_history_events" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States military history events">wars of the United States</a> and have earned some of the highest distinctions awarded to U.S. soldiers (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Hispanic_Medal_of_Honor_recipients" title="List of Hispanic Medal of Honor recipients">list of Hispanic Medal of Honor recipients</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historic figures in the United States have been Hispanic from early times. Some recent famous people of Hispanic descent in the U.S. include actress <a href="/wiki/Rita_Hayworth" title="Rita Hayworth">Rita Hayworth</a>, singer <a href="/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt" title="Linda Ronstadt">Linda Ronstadt</a>, and baseball legends <a href="/wiki/Lefty_Gomez" title="Lefty Gomez">Lefty Gomez</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ted_Williams" title="Ted Williams">Ted Williams</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="National_Hispanic_Heritage_Month">National Hispanic Heritage Month</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: National Hispanic Heritage Month"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/National_Hispanic_Heritage_Month_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Hispanic Heritage Month (United States)">National Hispanic Heritage Month</a> is celebrated in the United States from September 15 to October 15.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Diversity">Diversity</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Diversity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Hispanic" title="Hispanic">Hispanic</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444" /><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Hispanophone" title="Special:EditPage/Hispanophone">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">August 2022</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The people of Hispanophone countries encompass many different ethnic backgrounds. Though in countries like the United States, Hispanics may often be stereotyped as having a typical <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_race" title="Mediterranean race">Mediterranean</a>/<a href="/wiki/Amerindian" class="mw-redirect" title="Amerindian">Amerindian</a>/Southern European appearance - <a href="/wiki/Olive_skin" title="Olive skin">olive skin</a>, dark hair, and dark eyes.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most Hispanics in the United States have their origins in countries such as <a href="/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>, and Mexico, with 90% of Salvadorans, 95% of Paraguayans, and 70%<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of Mexicans identifying as mestizo, with Mexico having the largest total mestizo population at over 66 million.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the United States, Hispanics, regardless of self-identified racial background, are labeled <i>Hispanic</i> by the U.S. census. They may have varying of European ancestry, such as Spanish origins, and Amerindian or African roots.<sup id="cite_ref-Origin_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Origin-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1850 to 1920, the U.S. Census form did not distinguish between whites and Mexican Americans.<sup id="cite_ref-rutgers_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rutgers-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1930, the U.S. Census form asked for "color or race", and census enumerators were instructed to write <i>W</i> for white and <i>Mex</i> for Mexican.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In 1940 and 1950, the census reverted its decision and made Mexicans be classified as white again and thus the instructions were to "Report <i>white</i> (W) for Mexicans unless they were definitely of full Indigenous Indian or other non-white races (such as Black or Asian)."<sup id="cite_ref-rutgers_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rutgers-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p><p>Of the over 35 million Hispanics counted in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census,_2000" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Census, 2000">Federal 2000 Census</a>,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> 47.9% identified as <a href="/wiki/White_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (people)">White</a> (termed <a href="/wiki/White_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="White Hispanic and Latino Americans">White Hispanic</a> by the Census Bureau); 42.2% some other race; 6.3% two or more races; 2% Black or African American; 1.2% American Indian and Alaska Native; 0.3% Asian; and 0.1% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even among those Hispanics who reported one race only, most would also possess at least some ancestral lineage from one or more other races, despite the fact that only 6.3% reported as such (this is also applicable to the non-Hispanics counted in the U.S. Census, although maybe in less proportion). </p><p>According to one study (Stephens et al. 2001), from the genetic perspective, Hispanics generally represent a differential mixture of European, Native American, and African ancestry, with the proportionate mix typically depending on country of origin.<sup id="cite_ref-Origin_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Origin-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The populations of Iberia (both Spain and Portugal), like all European populations, have received multiple other influences, even though they are still largely descended from the prehistoric European populations, and to a greater degree than any other major group.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Africa">Africa</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Africa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dialects_of_Spanish_in_Africa.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Dialects_of_Spanish_in_Africa.png/250px-Dialects_of_Spanish_in_Africa.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Dialects_of_Spanish_in_Africa.png 1.5x" data-file-width="354" data-file-height="337" /></a><figcaption>Spanish dialects in <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_Africa" title="Hispanic Africa">Hispanic Africa</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Equatorial_Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Equatorial Guinea"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Guinea" title="Spanish Guinea">Spanish Guinea</a></div> <p>In the former Spanish province of <a href="/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea" title="Equatorial Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</a>, although Portuguese and French are co-official languages, the majority of the population speak Spanish.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is a small minority of African people who possessed Spanish and other European ancestry. These individuals form less than 1% of the population. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Morocco">Morocco</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Morocco"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Morocco" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Morocco">Spanish Morocco</a></div> <p>Portions of the north coast of <a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a> were a former Spanish protectorate and Spanish remains spoken by about 1.7 million people as of 2018. This makes Morocco the country with the most Spanish speakers outside the Hispanophone world unless the United States is excluded.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, demand for Spanish and overall competency in the language has fallen since the start of the 21st century and the most popular foreign language is now English (as French is considered a second and mandatory language in the country).<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Spanish_territories_in_North_Africa">Spanish territories in North Africa</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Spanish territories in North Africa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_cities_of_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous cities of Spain">Autonomous cities of Spain</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Plazas_de_soberan%C3%ADa" title="Plazas de soberanía">Plazas de soberanía</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ceuta" title="Ceuta">Ceuta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melilla" title="Melilla">Melilla</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chafarinas_Islands" title="Chafarinas Islands">Chafarinas Islands</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pe%C3%B1%C3%B3n_de_Alhucemas" class="mw-redirect" title="Peñón de Alhucemas">Peñón de Alhucemas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pe%C3%B1%C3%B3n_de_V%C3%A9lez_de_la_Gomera" title="Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera">Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Canary_Islands" title="Canary Islands">Canary Islands</a></div> <p>Since the <a href="/wiki/Reconquista" title="Reconquista">Reconquista</a>, Spain has held numerous emplacements in North Africa. Most of them were promptly lost, but to date, with an approximate population of 143,000 people, the <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_Communities_of_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous Communities of Spain">autonomous cities</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ceuta" title="Ceuta">Ceuta</a> and <a href="/wiki/Melilla" title="Melilla">Melilla</a>, which constitute the two <i>plazas de soberanía mayores</i> (Major Territories under [Spanish] Sovereignty) remained Spanish, and the <a href="/wiki/Chafarinas_Islands" title="Chafarinas Islands">Chafarinas Islands</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Pe%C3%B1%C3%B3n_de_Alhucemas" class="mw-redirect" title="Peñón de Alhucemas">Peñón de Alhucemas</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Pe%C3%B1%C3%B3n_de_V%C3%A9lez_de_la_Gomera" title="Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera">Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera</a>, which constitute the three <i>plazas de soberanía menores</i> (Minor Territories under [Spanish] Sovereignty), still forming part of Spain. The <a href="/wiki/Canary_Islands" title="Canary Islands">Canary Islands</a>, a constituent part of Spain's main territorial subdivisions, are also located in North Africa. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Western_Sahara">Western Sahara</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Western Sahara"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Sahara" title="Spanish Sahara">Spanish Sahara</a></div> <p>Spanish is maintained as a secondary language alongside the official Arabic in the <a href="/wiki/Sahrawi_Arab_Democratic_Republic" title="Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic">Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic</a>, a partially recognized state that claims <a href="/wiki/Western_Sahara" title="Western Sahara">Western Sahara</a>, whose territory formerly comprised the Spanish colony of <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Sahara" title="Spanish Sahara">Spanish Sahara</a> and now is mostly occupied by <a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a>. However, Spanish is not a native language in the territory, and the Moroccan government uses Arabic and French in its administration of Western Sahara and the number of Spanish speakers in the territory itself is rather trivial compared to the former two languages.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Asia">Asia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Asia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Philippines">Philippines</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Philippines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Idioma_chabacano.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Idioma_chabacano.png/220px-Idioma_chabacano.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="352" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Idioma_chabacano.png/330px-Idioma_chabacano.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Idioma_chabacano.png/440px-Idioma_chabacano.png 2x" data-file-width="1976" data-file-height="3164" /></a><figcaption>Map of the <a href="/wiki/Chabacano" class="mw-redirect" title="Chabacano">Chabacano</a> language in <a href="/wiki/Zamboanga_(province)" title="Zamboanga (province)">Zamboanga</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Philippine Islands">Philippine Islands</a></figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Filipino" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Filipino">Spanish Filipino</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Spanish" title="Philippine Spanish">Philippine Spanish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chavacano" title="Chavacano">Chavacano</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_the_Philippines" title="Captaincy General of the Philippines">Captaincy General of the Philippines</a></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Filipino" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish Filipino">Spanish Filipino</a> population which mostly descends from those Spanish colonists who arrived during the <a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_the_Philippines" title="Captaincy General of the Philippines">Spanish colonial period</a> remains influential in Filipino society despite its small numbers. However, the vast majority of Spanish Filipinos today no longer speak Spanish. Instead, most now exclusively speak <a href="/wiki/Tagalog_language" title="Tagalog language">Tagalog</a> or other local Philippine languages and English.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, the only Spanish-based creole language in Asia called <a href="/wiki/Chavacano" title="Chavacano">Chavacano</a> was developed on the islands and is spoken by roughly a million people. </p><p>Section 7, Article XIV of the <a href="/wiki/1987_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="1987 Constitution">1987 Philippine Constitution</a> specifies Spanish (along with <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a>) a language to "be promoted on a voluntary and optional basis", while the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Academy_of_the_Spanish_Language" title="Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language">Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language</a> (Spanish: <i lang="es">Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española</i>) remains the state regulating body for the language. <a href="/wiki/Castilian_Spanish" title="Castilian Spanish">Castilian Spanish</a> is the sole dialectal standard taught in schools, while <a href="/wiki/Philippine_Spanish" title="Philippine Spanish">Philippine Spanish</a> (the local variant of the language which developed during the colonial era) currently has a few thousand native speakers left and is close to extinction.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite its rapid decline in the 20th century, there has been a revival of interest in the Spanish language since the first decade of the 21st century among select circles. Under the rule of President <a href="/wiki/Gloria_Macapagal_Arroyo" title="Gloria Macapagal Arroyo">Gloria Macapagal Arroyo</a> (herself a fluent speaker), Spanish was re-introduced into the <a href="/wiki/Education_in_the_Philippines" title="Education in the Philippines">educational system</a> as an elective language in secondary schools. Nevertheless, the Spanish language's presence in the country and its cultural influence continues to decline and is no longer present in daily life outside the numerous <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language_in_the_Philippines#Influence_on_the_languages_of_the_Philippines" title="Spanish language in the Philippines">loanwords of Spanish origin</a> in Philippine languages.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pacific_Islands">Pacific Islands</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Pacific Islands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Easter_Island_(Rapa_Nui)"><span id="Easter_Island_.28Rapa_Nui.29"></span>Easter Island (Rapa Nui)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Easter Island (Rapa Nui)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rano_Raraku_quarry.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Rano_Raraku_quarry.jpg/220px-Rano_Raraku_quarry.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Rano_Raraku_quarry.jpg/330px-Rano_Raraku_quarry.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Rano_Raraku_quarry.jpg/440px-Rano_Raraku_quarry.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Easter_Island" title="Easter Island">Easter Island</a>, part of <a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a>, is the only island in <a href="/wiki/Oceania" title="Oceania">Oceania</a> whose official language is Spanish.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Spanish is the official language of <a href="/wiki/Easter_Island" title="Easter Island">Easter Island</a>, a territorial possession of Chile in <a href="/wiki/Polynesia" title="Polynesia">Polynesia</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mariana_Islands">Mariana Islands</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Mariana Islands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Mariana_Islands" title="Mariana Islands">Mariana Islands</a> (today split between the <a href="/wiki/United_States_territory" class="mw-redirect" title="United States territory">United States territory</a> of <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands">Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands</a>) were formerly governed as a part of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_East_Indies" title="Spanish East Indies">Spanish East Indies</a>, and thus many <a href="/wiki/Chamorros" class="mw-redirect" title="Chamorros">Chamorros</a> possess some degree of Spanish admixture. </p><p>While most people living on these islands no longer speak Spanish, the native <a href="/wiki/Chamorro_language" title="Chamorro language">Chamorro language</a> exhibits a noticeable Spanish influence in its vocabulary. Many Chamorros have also preserved Hispanic cultural elements such as <a href="/wiki/Party" title="Party">fiestas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cockfight" class="mw-redirect" title="Cockfight">cockfighting</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic">Catholic</a> faith despite having integrated with the American way of life. </p><p>Spanish surnames are still prevalent on Guam, it is spoken by Catholic people and <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Ricans" title="Puerto Ricans">Puerto Ricans</a>, and the custom of women keeping their maiden names after marriage is a both byproduct of Spanish culture on these islands as well as the <a href="/wiki/Matrilineal" class="mw-redirect" title="Matrilineal">matrilineal</a> structure of indigenous <a href="/wiki/Chamorro_people" title="Chamorro people">Chamorro</a> culture. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Antarctica">Antarctica</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Antarctica"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Orcadas_Base.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Orcadas_Base.jpg/220px-Orcadas_Base.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Orcadas_Base.jpg/330px-Orcadas_Base.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Orcadas_Base.jpg/440px-Orcadas_Base.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1180" data-file-height="788" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Orcadas_Base" title="Orcadas Base">Orcadas Base</a>, an Argentine scientific station, is the oldest operating Antarctic base and the oldest with a permanent population (since 1907).</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Villa_Las_Estrellas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Villa_Las_Estrellas.jpg/250px-Villa_Las_Estrellas.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Villa_Las_Estrellas.jpg/330px-Villa_Las_Estrellas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Villa_Las_Estrellas.jpg/500px-Villa_Las_Estrellas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="577" /></a><figcaption>The Chilean nucleus <a href="/wiki/Villa_Las_Estrellas" title="Villa Las Estrellas">Villa Las Estrellas</a> for the civilian population at the <a href="/wiki/Base_Presidente_Eduardo_Frei_Montalva" title="Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva">Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva</a>, located on the <a href="/wiki/Fildes_Peninsula" title="Fildes Peninsula">Fildes Peninsula</a> of <a href="/wiki/King_George_Island_(South_Shetland_Islands)" title="King George Island (South Shetland Islands)">King George Island</a> in the South Shetland islands</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctica</a>, there are only two civilian localities and both are inhabited primarily by native Spanish speakers. One of them is the Argentine <a href="/wiki/Fort%C3%ADn_Sargento_Cabral" class="mw-redirect" title="Fortín Sargento Cabral">Fortín Sargento Cabral</a>, which has 66 inhabitants.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The other is the Chilean town of <a href="/wiki/Villa_Las_Estrellas" title="Villa Las Estrellas">Villa Las Estrellas</a>, which has a population of 150 inhabitants in summer and 80 inhabitants in winter. In each of them there is a school where students study and do research in Spanish. The <a href="/wiki/Orcadas_Base" title="Orcadas Base">Orcadas Base</a>, an Argentine scientific station, is the oldest base in all of Antarctica still in operation and the oldest with a permanent population (since 1907). </p><p>The following countries operate scientific bases in Antarctica: </p> <table border="0" class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Country </th> <th>Permanent Research Stations </th> <th>Summer Research Stations </th> <th>Total </th> <th>Map </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a> </td> <td>6 </td> <td>7 </td> <td><b>13</b> </td> <td rowspan="6"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ant%C3%A1rtida_hispana.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Ant%C3%A1rtida_hispana.png/500px-Ant%C3%A1rtida_hispana.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Ant%C3%A1rtida_hispana.png/525px-Ant%C3%A1rtida_hispana.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Ant%C3%A1rtida_hispana.png/700px-Ant%C3%A1rtida_hispana.png 2x" data-file-width="779" data-file-height="668" /></a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Chile </td> <td>4 </td> <td>5 </td> <td><b>9</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay">Uruguay</a> </td> <td>1 </td> <td>1 </td> <td><b>2</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Spain </td> <td>0 </td> <td>2 </td> <td><b>2</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a> </td> <td>0 </td> <td>1 </td> <td><b>1</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ecuador" title="Ecuador">Ecuador</a> </td> <td>0 </td> <td>1 </td> <td><b>1</b> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Argentine_Antarctica" title="Argentine Antarctica">Argentine Antarctica</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chilean_Antarctic_Territory" title="Chilean Antarctic Territory">Chilean Antarctic Territory</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Uruguayan_Antarctica" title="Uruguayan Antarctica">Uruguayan Antarctica</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religion">Religion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Spanish and the Portuguese took the Christian faith to their colonies in the Americas, Africa, and Asia; <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</a> remains the predominant religion amongst most Hispanics.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A significant minority of Spanish speakers are also either <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or not affiliated with any religion. </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="170 px" style="background:Lavender; color:Black">Countries </th> <th>Population Total </th> <th width="170 px" style="background:Lavender; color:Black">Christians % </th> <th>Christian Population </th> <th width="170 px" style="background:Lavender; color:Black">Unaffiliated % </th> <th>Unaffiliated Population </th> <th width="170 px" style="background:Lavender; color:Black">Other religions % </th> <th>Other religions Population </th> <th>Source </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/23px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/35px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Flag_of_Argentina.svg/46px-Flag_of_Argentina.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a> </td> <td>43,830,000</td> <td>85.4% </td> <td>37,420,000 </td> <td>12.1% </td> <td>5,320,000 </td> <td>2.5% </td> <td>1,090,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Bolivia.svg/40px-Flag_of_Bolivia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Bolivia.svg/60px-Flag_of_Bolivia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="750" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a> </td> <td>11,830,000</td> <td>94.0% </td> <td>11,120,000 </td> <td>4.1% </td> <td>480,000 </td> <td>1.9% </td> <td>230,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/40px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/60px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a> </td> <td>18,540,000</td> <td>88.3% </td> <td>16,380,000 </td> <td>9.7% </td> <td>1,800,000 </td> <td>2.0% </td> <td>360,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/40px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Colombia.svg/60px-Flag_of_Colombia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a> </td> <td>52,160,000</td> <td>92.3% </td> <td>48,150,000 </td> <td>6.7% </td> <td>3,510,000 </td> <td>1.0% </td> <td>500,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Costa_Rica.svg/40px-Flag_of_Costa_Rica.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Flag_of_Costa_Rica.svg/60px-Flag_of_Costa_Rica.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Costa_Rica" title="Costa Rica">Costa Rica</a> </td> <td>5,270,000 </td> <td>90.8% </td> <td>4,780,000 </td> <td>8.0% </td> <td>420,000 </td> <td>1.2% </td> <td>70,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Flag_of_Cuba.svg/40px-Flag_of_Cuba.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Flag_of_Cuba.svg/60px-Flag_of_Cuba.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> </td> <td>11,230,000 </td> <td>58.9% </td> <td>6,610,000 </td> <td>23.2% </td> <td>2,600,000 </td> <td>17.9% </td> <td>2,020,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_the_Dominican_Republic.svg/40px-Flag_of_the_Dominican_Republic.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_the_Dominican_Republic.svg/60px-Flag_of_the_Dominican_Republic.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Dominican_Republic" title="Dominican Republic">Dominican Republic</a> </td> <td>11,280,000 </td> <td>88.0% </td> <td>9,930,000 </td> <td>10.9% </td> <td>1,230,000 </td> <td>1.1% </td> <td>120,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Flag_of_Ecuador.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ecuador.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Flag_of_Ecuador.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ecuador.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Flag_of_Ecuador.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ecuador.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="960" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Ecuador" title="Ecuador">Ecuador</a> </td> <td>16,480,000</td> <td>94.0% </td> <td>15,490,000 </td> <td>5.6% </td> <td>920,000 </td> <td>0.4% </td> <td>70,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg/23px-Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg/35px-Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg/46px-Flag_of_El_Salvador.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1005" data-file-height="567" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a> </td> <td>6,670,000 </td> <td>88.0% </td> <td>5,870,000 </td> <td>11.2% </td> <td>740,000 </td> <td>0.8% </td> <td>60,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Equatorial_Guinea.svg/40px-Flag_of_Equatorial_Guinea.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Equatorial_Guinea.svg/60px-Flag_of_Equatorial_Guinea.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea" title="Equatorial Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</a> </td> <td>860,000 </td> <td>88.7% </td> <td>770,000 </td> <td>5.0% </td> <td>40,000 </td> <td>6.3% </td> <td>50,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Guatemala.svg/23px-Flag_of_Guatemala.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Guatemala.svg/35px-Flag_of_Guatemala.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Flag_of_Guatemala.svg/46px-Flag_of_Guatemala.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Guatemala" title="Guatemala">Guatemala</a> </td> <td>18,210,000 </td> <td>95.3% </td> <td>17,360,000 </td> <td>3.9% </td> <td>720,000 </td> <td>0.8% </td> <td>130,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Flag_of_Honduras.svg/40px-Flag_of_Honduras.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Flag_of_Honduras.svg/60px-Flag_of_Honduras.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduras</a> </td> <td>9,090,000 </td> <td>87.5% </td> <td>7,950,000 </td> <td>10.5% </td> <td>950,000 </td> <td>2.0% </td> <td>190,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Mexico.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="980" data-file-height="560" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a> </td> <td>126,010,000 </td> <td>94.1% </td> <td>118,570,000 </td> <td>5.7% </td> <td>7,240,000 </td> <td>0.2% </td> <td>200,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_Nicaragua.svg/23px-Flag_of_Nicaragua.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_Nicaragua.svg/35px-Flag_of_Nicaragua.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_Nicaragua.svg/46px-Flag_of_Nicaragua.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> </td> <td>6,690,000 </td> <td>85.3% </td> <td>5,710,000 </td> <td>13.0% </td> <td>870,000 </td> <td>1.7% </td> <td>110,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Flag_of_Panama.svg/40px-Flag_of_Panama.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Flag_of_Panama.svg/60px-Flag_of_Panama.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Panama" title="Panama">Panama</a> </td> <td>4,020,000 </td> <td>92.7% </td> <td>3,720,000 </td> <td>5.0% </td> <td>200,000 </td> <td>2.3% </td> <td>100,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Paraguay.svg/40px-Flag_of_Paraguay.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Flag_of_Paraguay.svg/60px-Flag_of_Paraguay.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="660" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Paraguay" title="Paraguay">Paraguay</a> </td> <td>7,630,000</td> <td>96.9% </td> <td>7,390,000 </td> <td>1.1% </td> <td>90,000 </td> <td>2.0% </td> <td>150,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_Peru.svg/23px-Flag_of_Peru.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_Peru.svg/35px-Flag_of_Peru.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_Peru.svg/45px-Flag_of_Peru.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a> </td> <td>32,920,000</td> <td>95.4% </td> <td>31,420,000 </td> <td>3.1% </td> <td>1,010,000 </td> <td>1.5% </td> <td>490,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg/40px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg/60px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> </td> <td>109,035,343 </td> <td>92.4% </td> <td>102,794,183 </td> <td>0.1% </td> <td>111,249 </td> <td>5.8% </td> <td>6,452,448 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg/40px-Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg/60px-Flag_of_Puerto_Rico.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>sn 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>3,790,000 </td> <td>90.5% </td> <td>3,660,000 </td> <td>7.3% </td> <td>80,000 </td> <td>2.2% </td> <td>40,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/40px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/60px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> </td> <td>48,400,000 </td> <td>75.2% </td> <td>34,410,000 </td> <td>21.0% </td> <td>10,190,000 </td> <td>3.8% </td> <td>1,800,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> </td> <td>333,287,557</td> <td>63.0% </td> <td>209,971,161 </td> <td>29.0% </td> <td>96,653,392 </td> <td>8.0% </td> <td>26,663,005 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/23px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/35px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_Uruguay.svg/45px-Flag_of_Uruguay.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="341" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Uruguay" title="Uruguay">Uruguay</a> </td> <td>3,490,000</td> <td>57.0% </td> <td>1,990,000 </td> <td>41.5% </td> <td>1,450,000 </td> <td>1.5% </td> <td>50,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Flag_of_Venezuela.svg/23px-Flag_of_Venezuela.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Flag_of_Venezuela.svg/35px-Flag_of_Venezuela.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Flag_of_Venezuela.svg/45px-Flag_of_Venezuela.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a> </td> <td>33,010,000</td> <td>89.5% </td> <td>29,540,000 </td> <td>9.7% </td> <td>3,220,000 </td> <td>0.8% </td> <td>250,000 </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-auto_32-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Note: Puerto Rico is <a href="/wiki/Political_status_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Political status of Puerto Rico">a territory</a> of the <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries where Spanish is an official language">List of countries where Spanish is an official language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish-based_creole_languages" title="Spanish-based creole languages">Spanish-based creole languages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_Hispanic_People" title="Flag of the Hispanic People">Flag of the Hispanic People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hispanic" title="Hispanic">Hispanic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hispanidad" title="Hispanidad">Hispanicity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hispanism" title="Hispanism">Hispanism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pan-Hispanism" class="mw-redirect" title="Pan-Hispanism">Pan-Hispanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hispanophobia" title="Hispanophobia">Hispanophobia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Latino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Language_geography" title="Language geography">Language geography</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Sprachraum" title="Sprachraum">Sprachraum</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lingua_franca" title="Lingua franca">Lingua franca</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/World_language" title="World language">World language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglophone" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglophone">Anglophone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Francophone" class="mw-redirect" title="Francophone">Francophone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lusophone" class="mw-redirect" title="Lusophone">Lusophone</a>, the corresponding words relating to use of the English, French, and Portuguese languages, respectively</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_lingua_francas" title="List of lingua francas">List of link languages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dialect_continuum" title="Dialect continuum">Dialect continuum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geolinguistics" title="Geolinguistics">Geolinguistics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Language_geography" title="Language geography">Language geography</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist reflist-lower-roman"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Spanish: <i lang="es">castellanohablante</i>, <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">castellanoparlante</i></span>, or <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es">castellanófono</i></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hispanophone&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-:0-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/espanol_lengua_viva/pdf/espanol_lengua_viva_2022.pdf">El español: una lengua viva - Informe 2022</a>, <a href="/wiki/Instituto_Cervantes" 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