Ibero-America

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Image:Iberoamérica.png Ibero-America (also "Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Commonwealth of Independent States") is a term which started to be used in the second half of the 19th century to refer collectively to the countries in the Americas which were formerly colonies of Spain or Portugal. Spain and Portugal are themselves included, for example the Organization of Ibero-American States has them as member states.

Ibero- is a prefix which denotes the Iberian Peninsula in Europe, consisting of Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Gibraltar. Ibero-America is formed by all Spanish-speaking countries in America in addition to Portuguese-speaking Brazil.

Since the 1990s these countries, urged by King Juan Carlos of Spain, have begun to coordinate their efforts through summits held every two years.

1 Countries and Population
2 Latin America
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Countries and Population

Spanish-speaking : (Over 400 million speakers)

Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina 38,747,000

Image:Flag of Bolivia.svg Bolivia 9,182,000

Image:Flag of Chile (bordered).svg Chile 16,295,000

Image:Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia 45,600,000

Image:Flag of Costa Rica (state).svg Costa Rica 4,401,000

Image:Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba 11,269,000

Image:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic 8,895,000

Image:Flag of Ecuador.svg Ecuador 13,228,000

Image:Flag of El Salvador.svg El Salvador 6,881,000

Image:Flag of Honduras.svg Honduras 7,205,000

Image:Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala 12,599,000

Image:Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico 107,029,000

Image:Flag of Nicaragua.svg Nicaragua 5,487,000

Image:Flag of Panama (bordered).svg Panama 3,232,000

Image:Flag of Paraguay.svg Paraguay 6,158,000

Image:Flag of Peru.svg Peru 27,968,000

Image:Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico (US) 3,955,000

Image:Flag of Spain.svg Spain 43,064,000

Image:Flag of Uruguay.svg Uruguay 3,463,000

Image:Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela 26,749,000

Portuguese-speaking : (About 200 million speakers)

Image:Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil 186,405,000

Image:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal 10,495,000

[edit] Latin America

"Ibero-America" should not be confused with "Latin America", which incoporates much of Ibero-America, but not the French speaking countries Haiti, French Guyana, Martinique and Guadeloupe, nor the Iberian countries themselves.