Latin America

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(place) by tres equis (2.2 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Jul 12 2000 at 1:00:01

Latin America is a collective name referring to those countries in North America, Central America, and South America whose offical languages are derived from Latin. More specifically whose official languages are Spanish, Portuguese, or French. I'm pretty sure there's some island nations that should be included too so please let me know what's missing. Let's see:

To bitter_engineer,
In Belize and Jamaica they speak English, in Suriname they speak Dutch, and in Haiti they speak Creole and French. You've also left out the South American country of Guyana where English is also spoken.

(place) by bitter_engineer (6.5 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Jul 12 2000 at 1:37:02

If you count island nations, then you'll need

Antigua and Barbuda
The Bahamas
Barbados
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Grenada
Haiti
Jamaica
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grenedines
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
and maybe even Puerto Rico, Martinique and the Netherlands Antilles, depending on who you are and what you're talking about (all are still colonies of some sort).

You also missed Belize

Thanks to the State Department web site for clearing this up.

I stand by my inclusions....the languages may be exceptions, but I find it hard to believe that these countries would be thrown out of a 'latin american' summit meeting because of this.

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Central America	manzana	Useful phrases while travelling abroad	North America
Haiti	Mexico	South America	Cuba
Colombia	Spanish	Honduras	Grenada
Belize	Shakira	How to Read Donald Duck	Uruguay
latin pop	Brazil	Ecuador	Dominican Republic
French	Guatemala	Ivan Illich	Major League Baseball and The Puerto Rico Experiment

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