Hispanophone
Hispanophonie is the name given to the Spanish-speaking world. The term was made analogous to the designation Francophonie for the French- speaking world. In contrast to the Francophonie Hispanophonie is not a political concept, but includes all speakers of Spanish.
The Hispanophonie includes the following states and territories:
Spanish as an official language (in brackets number of native speakers):
- Equatorial Guinea ( 11,500 )
- Argentina ( 39 million )
- Bolivia ( 8,000,000 )
- Chile ( 15,500,000 )
- Costa Rica ( 3,700,000 )
- Dominican Republic ( 8,500,000 )
- Ecuador ( 10,500,000 )
- El Salvador ( 6,200,000 )
- Guatemala ( 7,500,000 )
- Honduras ( 5,800,000 )
- Colombia ( 44,000,000 )
- Cuba ( 11,100,000 )
- Mexico ( 104 million )
- Nicaragua ( 5,000,000 )
- Panama ( 2,900,000 )
- Paraguay ( 4,000,000 )
- Peru ( 22,000,000 )
- Puerto Rico ( 3,900,000 )
- Spain ( 43,000,000 )
- Uruguay ( 3.3 million )
- Venezuela ( 24,000,000 )
- United States (regional, 40.8 million )
- Spanish Language
- Linguistic geography