1. Latin Countries Honduras Argentina Mexico Bolivia Nicaragua Brazil
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Spain
Uruguay
Venezuela
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Ecuador
Guatemala

2. Caribbean
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Puerto Rico

3. Cuba

4. Cuba Demographics Full country name: Republic of Cuba
Area: 110,860 sq km
Population: 11 million
Capital city: Havana
Language: Spanish
Religion:47% Roman Catholic, 4%Protestant
Government: Communist Republic
Head of State: Fidel Castro

5. Dominican Republic

6. Dominican Republic Demographics Area: 48,730 sq km (18,814.8 sq miles)
Population: 8.5 million
Capital city: Santo Domingo
Language: Spanish
Religion: 95% Roman Catholic
Government: Representative Democracy
President: Leonel Fernández

7. Puerto Rico

8. Puerto Rico Demographics Area: 9100 sq km (3500 sq miles)
Population: 3,915,798
Capital city: San Juan
Language: Spanish, English
Religion: 85% Roman Catholic, Protestant
Government: Commonwealth of the US
Governor: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá

9. Central America Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua
Panama

10. Costa Rica

11. Costa Rica Demographics Full country name: Republic of Costa Rica
Area: 51,100 sq km (19,929 sq mi)
Population: 3.8 million
Capital city: San José
Language: Spanish, Creole English & Indian dialects
Religion: 85% Roman Catholic, Protestant
Government: Democracy
President-elect: Oscar Arias Sanchez

12. El Salvador

13. El Salvador Demographics Full country name: Republic of El Salvador
Area: 20,752 sq km (8,093 sq mi)
Population: 6,122,515
Capital city: San Salvador
Language: Spanish, some Nahua
Religion: 75% Roman Catholic, 20%Protestant
Government: Republic
President: Elías Antonio Saca Gonzalez

14. Guatemala

15. Guatemala Demographics Full country name: Republic of Guatemala
Area: 109,000 sq km (42,500 sq mi)
Population: 12.6 million
Capital city: Guatemala City
Language: Spanish, Garífuna & 21 Mayan Languajes
Religion: Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Mayan-Catholic fusion
Government: Democratic
President: Oscar Berger Perdomo

16. Honduras

17. Honduras Demographics Full country name: Republic of Honduras
Area: 112,492 sq km (43,870 sq mi)
Population: 6,249,598 million
Capital city: Tegucigalpa
Language: Spanish, Creole English & Indian dialects
Religion: 85% Roman Catholic, Other Christian sects & Indigenous forms of worship
Government: Constitutional Democracy
President: Manuel Zelaya

18. Nicaragua

19. Nicaragua Demographics Full country name: Republic of Nicaragua
Area: 129,494 sq km (50,180 sq mi)
Population: 5.2 million
Capital city: Managua
Language: Spanish, Creole English & Miskito
Religion: 73% Roman Catholic, 16% Protestant
Government: Republic
President-elect: Enrique Bolaños

20. Panama

21. Panama Demographics Full country name: Republic of Panama
Area: 78,000 sq km (30,420 sq mi)
Population: 2.8 million
Capital city: Panama City
Language: Spanish,English & Indian languages
Religion: 85% Roman Catholic, 10% Protestant, 5% Islamic
Government: Constitutional Republic
President-elect: Martin Torrijos Espino

22. Europe
Spain
Portugal

23. Spain

24. Spain Demographics Full country name: Kingdom of Spain
Area: 504,784 sq km
Population: 40.5 million
Capital city: Madrid
Language: Castilian Spanish (also Catalan,Galician & Basque)
Religion: 90% Roman Catholic
Government: Parliamentary monarchy
Prime Minister: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
King: Juan Carlos I

25. Portugal

26. Portugal Demographics Area: 35,672 sq km (92,389 sq mi)
Population: 10.3 million
Capital city: Lisbon
Language: Portuguese
Religion: 97% Roman Catholic,
2% Protestant
Government: Parliamentary Democracy
President: Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Prime Minister: José Socrates

27. North America
Mexico

28. Mexico

29. Mexico Demographics Full country name: Estados Unidos Méxicano
Area: 1,958,200 sq km (758,866 sq mi)
Population: 100,350,000
Capital city: Mexico City
Language: Spanish & 59 indigenous languages
Religion: 90% Roman Catholic, 6% Protestant
Government: Federal Republic
President-elect: Vincente Fox Quesada

30. South America Ecuador Argentina Paraguay Bolivia Peru Brazil Uruguay
Venezuela
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia

31. Argentina

32. Argentina Demographics Full country name: República Argentina
Area: 2,776,890 sq km (1,083,000 sq mi)
Population: 37,812,817
Capital city: Buenos Aires
Language: Spanish, 17 Indigenous languages
Religion: 93% Roman Catholic, 2.5%Protestant, 2% Jewish, 1.5% Ukranian Catholic, 1% Armenian Orthodox
Government: Republic
Interim-President: Nestor Kirchener

33. Bolivia

34. Bolivia Demographics Full country name: Republic of Bolivia
Area: 1,098,580 sq km (428,446 sq mi)
Population: 8,328,700
Capital city: La Paz
Language: Spanish, Quechua, Aymará & Composite dialects of Spanish-Quechua & Spanish-Aymará
Religion: 95% Roman Catholic, Protestant (Evangelical Methodist)
Government: Democracy
President: Jorge Evo Morales

35. Brazil

36. Brazil Demographics Full country name: República Federativa do Brasil
Area: 8,514,215 sq km (3,286,487 sq mi)
Population: 175 million
Capital city: Brasília
Language: Portuguese
Religion: 70% Roman Catholic, a significant portion who either belong to various cults or practice Indian animism
Government: Federal Republic
President: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

37. Chile

38. Chile Demographics Full country name: Republic of Chile
Area: 756,950 sq km (292,500 sq mi)
Population: 15 million
Capital city: Santiago
Language: Spanish, a handful of native languages (Aymara, Mapuche & Rapa Nui)
Religion: 89% Roman Catholic, 10% Protestant, less than 1% Jewish
Government: Republic
President: Michelle Bachelet

39. Colombia

40. Colombia Demographics Full country name: Republic of Colombia
Area: 1,141,748 sq km (440,830 sq mi)
Population: 39,685,000
Capital city: Bogotá
Language: Castilian Spanish, over 200 indigenous languajes
Religion: 95% Roman Catholic, Episcopal & Jewish
Government: Democracy
President: Alvaro Uribe Vélez

41. Ecuador

42. Ecuador Demographics Area: 283,520 sq km (175,780 sq mi)
Population: 12,920,092
Capital city: Quito
Language: Spanish, Quechua,Quichua & Other indigenous languajes
Religion: 90% Roman Catholic, Other Christian denominations
Government: Democracy
President: Alfredo Palacio

43. Paraguay

44. Paraguay Demographics Full country name: República del Paraguay
Area: 407,000 sq km (158,730 sq mi)
Population: 5,585,828
Capital city: Asunción
Language: Spanish, Guaraní
Religion: 97% Roman Catholic, 3% Mennonite & other Protestant
Government: Republic
President: Oscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos

45. Peru

46. Peru Demographics Full country name: Republic of Peru
Area: 1,285,215 sq km (501,234 sq mi)
Population: 27,012,899
Capital city: Lima
Language: Spanish, Quechua, Aymara
Religion: 90% Roman Catholic, Protestant
Government: Democracy
President: Alan Gracia
Prime Minister: Jorge del Castillo

47. Uruguay

48. Uruguay Demographics Full country name: República Oriental del Uruguay
Area: 187,000 sq km (72,930 sq mi)
Population: 3,334,074
Capital city: Montevideo
Language: Spanish
Religion: 66% Roman Catholic, 2% Protestant,
2% Jewish
Government: Republic
President: Tabaré Vázquez

49. Venezuela

50. Venezuela Demographics
Full country name: República Bolivariana de Venezuela
Area: 912,050 sq km (355,700 sq mi)
Population: 23,543,000
Capital city: Caracas
Language: Spanish, More than 30 Amerindian languajes
Religion: 96% Roman Catholic, 2% Protestant
Government: Federal Republic
Head of State: Hugo Chávez

51. SOURCES Websites www.encarta.com www.lonelyplanet.com
Prepared by: DSCC HEP