Spanish as a World-Language
Over 400.000.000 people throughout the world speak Spanish
Spanish is native language to 360.000.000 people.
Additionally there are 60.000.000 people
speaking Spanish as a secondary language.
In the ranking of most spoken languages Spanish comes up to 4th place.
Spanish is spoken in
- Spain
- Mexico
- Argentinia
- Chile
- the USA
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
and in 38 more countries.
Spanish as official language
Spanish is official language in 21 countries.
- Equatorial Guinea (approx. 11.500 spanish speakers)
- Argentinia (39.000.000)
- 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)
- Columbia (44.000.000)
- Cuba (11.100.000)
- Mexico (104.000.000)
- Nicaragua (5.000.000)
- Panama (2.900.000)
- Paraguay (4.000.000)
- Peru (22.000.000)
- Spain (43.000.000)
- Uruguay (3.300.000)
- Venezuela (24.000.000)
- USA (partially, 40.800.000)
Spanish also has status as an official language in the European Union and in the UNO.
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