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Countries and territories where Spanish is an official language
- El SalvadorEl Salvador sits at the western edge of Central America, the smallest and most densely packed country on the continental mainland, a place its own people…
- GuatemalaThe name Guatemala comes from the Nahuatl word Cuauhtemallan, meaning "place of many trees." The Mexica first used it to describe a single Kaqchikel city…
- PeruPeru traces its heritage back to the 10th millennium BCE and the Caral-Supe civilization, the earliest civilization in the Americas.
- Puerto RicoPuerto Rico sits about 1,000 miles southeast of Miami, a Caribbean archipelago that is neither a U.S. state nor an independent nation. Its people have held U.
- UruguayUruguay, the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, sits tucked between two giants: Argentina to the west and Brazil to the north, opening eastward onto the Atlantic…
- ArgentinaArgentina covers 2,780,085 square kilometres, making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil and the eighth-largest in the world.
- SpainSpain holds the southernmost point of continental Europe, and yet its reach has never stopped at the edge of the Iberian Peninsula.
- ChileChile stretches like a ribbon down the western edge of South America, running more than 4,300 kilometers from the driest desert on Earth to the last scrap of…
- VenezuelaVenezuela sits on the northern edge of South America, officially known as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and it holds something that much of the world…
- ColombiaColombia takes its name from the Italian navigator Christopher Columbus, a label first meant to describe the entire New World.
- MexicoMexico domesticated maize, the tomato, and beans, three plants that would feed much of the world. Human presence on this land reaches back at least to 8,000…
- CubaCuba sits at the convergence of three bodies of water: the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean. An archipelago of more than four…