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| Area | 20,111,457 square kilometers (7,765,077 square miles) |
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| Population | 639,048,639 (2016 estimate) |
| Population density | 31 per square kilometer (80 per square mile) |
| Demonym | Latin American |
| Countries | 20 |
| Dependencies | 13 |
| Languages | Mainly: Spanish, Portuguese, and French Others: Quechua, Haitian Creole, Mayan languages, Guaraní, Aymara, Nahuatl, Italian, German, English, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian, Welsh, Yiddish, Chinese, Japanese |
| Time zones | UTC−2 to UTC−8 |
| Largest cities | (Metro areas) 1. São Paulo 2. Mexico City 3. Buenos Aires 4. Lima 5. Rio de Janeiro 6. Bogotá 7. Santiago 8. Belo Horizonte 9. Guadalajara 10. Monterrey |
| UN M49 code | 419 – Latin America019 – Americas001 – World |
Latin America is the part of the Americas where the people speak Romance languages: Spanish or Portuguese. This includes most of South America and Central America (also including the Spanish-speaking and sometimes the French-speaking Caribbean islands).
The places in the Americas which speak French (Haiti, French Guiana and the French-speaking Caribbean islands) are not always included as a part of Latin America, although French is also a Romance language.
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