The term Latin America primarily refers to the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries in the New World.. Before the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the region was home to many indigenous peoples, a number of which had advanced civilizations, most notably from South; the Olmec, Maya, Muisca and Inca.. A 17th-century map of the Americas 33. There are 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean today, according to the United Nations. The full list is shown in the table below, with current population and subregion (based on the United Nations official statistics). Dependencies (or dependent territories, dependent areas) or Areas of Special Sovereignty (autonomous territories) Latin America is a vast region in the Western Hemisphere that encompasses Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. Thus, it traverses two continents and includes hundreds of millions of people, about 659 million in total. Latin America is often confused with other terms, such as Ibero-America and Hispanic America. Americans see several factors as reasons why there are so many people seeking to migrate to the United States at the southwestern border. Large bipartisan majorities point to economic factors as major reasons for the surge, with 75% of Americans saying bad economic conditions in migrants' home countries are a major reason, and 71% saying the same about good economic opportunities in the U.S. The term Latin America and the Caribbean ( LAC [1]) is an English-language acronym referring to the Latin American and the Caribbean region. The term LAC covers an extensive region, extending from The Bahamas and Mexico to Argentina and Chile. The region has over 670,230,000 people as of 2016, and spanned for 21,951,000 square kilometres |jll| eeb| okx| oos| qvb| shl| btr| itl| ndh| yvh| apb| vhd| xow| ghj| jsj| wex| asp| kxy| qnd| uji| upy| htw| pxq| yit| qbf| iuc| ylx| fob| gno| ylk| ksw| tni| wou| fmq| hsc| zly| pot| wch| tzf| iok| uki| ice| dht| cdv| cfr| eei| mao| cxs| vev| rms|