Spanish-Speaking Countries

Spanish is the official or national language of twenty sovereign countries, spread across Europe, the Americas and one nation in Africa. It is the second-most spoken native language on the planet after Mandarin Chinese. The list below covers only countries where Spanish holds official status, so places with large Spanish-speaking minorities but no official recognition (such as the United States or Belize) are noted separately below the table.

20 countries Includes only countries where Spanish is an official or de-facto national language.

Country	Capital	Currency	Population
Argentina	Buenos Aires	ARS $	45,851,378
Bolivia	Sucre	BOB Bs.	12,581,843
Chile	Santiago	CLP $	19,859,921
Colombia	Bogotá	COP $	53,425,635
Costa Rica	San José	CRC ₡	5,152,950
Cuba	Havana	CUC $	10,937,203
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	DOP $	11,520,487
Ecuador	Quito	USD $	18,289,896
El Salvador	San Salvador	USD $	6,365,503
Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	XAF Fr	1,938,431
Guatemala	Guatemala City	GTQ Q	18,687,881
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	HNL L	11,005,850
Mexico	Mexico City	MXN $	131,946,900
Nicaragua	Managua	NIO C$	7,007,502
Panama	Panama City	PAB B/.	4,571,189
Paraguay	Asunción	PYG ₲	7,013,078
Peru	Lima	PEN S/.	34,576,665
Spain	Madrid	EUR €	49,355,143
Uruguay	Montevideo	UYU $	3,384,688
Venezuela	Caracas	VES Bs.S.	28,516,896

Populations from the World Bank (SP.POP.TOTL); other fields from open datasets. Sources and vintage on the data page. Membership of cultural regions can vary between sources; this list uses the definition described above.