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Top 10 Countries with the Most Spanish Speakers

Name the 10 countries that have the most native speakers of Spanish.
% is an estimate based on information from Wikipedia and the CIA World Factbook
Total country population from Worldometers, August 2022
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Last updated: August 26, 2022
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First submittedNovember 25, 2016
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Country
94
124 mil
Mexico
99
51.5 mil
Colombia
99
45.6 mil
Argentina
13
43.6 mil
United States
81
37.9 mil
Spain
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Country
87
29.5 mil
Peru
98
27.7 mil
Venezuela
99
19.3 mil
Chile
93
16.9 mil
Ecuador
99
11.2 mil
Cuba
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Level 67
Nov 26, 2016
For some reason I went in thinking this was only countries where Spanish was the main language. Only at the end did I realize it wasn't a requirement and immediately realized the missing answer was the US.
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Level 68
May 25, 2022
same
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Level 62
Nov 10, 2022
Yeah, that made it interesting; I forgot them initially as well.
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Level 63
Nov 26, 2016
I forgot Ecuador. I even went through every country in south America but I just skipped right over it.
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Level 65
Oct 8, 2019
Same
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Level 67
Feb 20, 2020
I did the same, except for Peru. Idk how, but I forgot Peru
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Level 55
Oct 8, 2020
I was like " don't guess cuba it's not a colony of spain you mix it up with peru" and I didn't guess it :( 9/10 (but it is)
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Level 20
Nov 10, 2022
I somehow missed Argentina and Cuba 😅
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Level 51
Nov 28, 2016
Missed Ecuador
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Level 34
Nov 28, 2016
usa has more than spain, who wouldve thought?
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Level 63
Jan 17, 2017
The US-area close to Mexico is probably bigger than Spain and I presume so is the population.
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Level 48
Apr 15, 2017
And don't forget that there are a lot of separatists in Spain that have their own language.
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Level 82
Apr 18, 2017
And also a lot of non-separatists that have their own language.
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Level 49
Sep 8, 2019
Well yes, there are people in Spain who have a different mother language than Castilian Spanish, but they should count in these numbers because everyone in Spain speaks Castilian Spanish as well.
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Level 25
Sep 21, 2019
elgrancazador: read the caveat - native language only
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Level 60
Oct 3, 2020
Or look at the percentage, Spain only has 74%. It's kinda ironic, how the country that the language originate from has second lowest percentage of it's native speakers.
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Level 88
Sep 13, 2017
I was in Florida this year and almost everyone there speaks Spanish. When I was in a store or on a market and people started talking to me, it was always in Spanish first and when I didn't respond (no hablo español) they tried English second
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Level 56
Dec 13, 2021
I'm assuming you mean southern Florida. I haven't been there but I've heard that Southern Florida is very diverse with many people from all over but Spanish speaking people make up the main groups (Cubans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans) whereas in Northern Florida it's mainly English speaking Southerners. I've heard North Florida being called South Georgia because of how much more like Georgia it is compared to southern Florida.
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Level 52
Nov 10, 2022
Theres a saying that the more north you go in Florida, the more Southern it gets.
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Level 76
Sep 7, 2022
~330 million, with ~20% Hispanic will amount to a significant number of Spanish speakers.
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Level 22
Nov 28, 2016
Cant believe i forgot cuba
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Level 8
Apr 15, 2017
Me too ... I thought the population was smaller. Still got 8/10 tho
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Level 56
Mar 15, 2017
Woah, I did it, but I wasnt expecting that Cuba was there :)
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Level 44
Apr 16, 2017
I can't believe I missed USA. 😩
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Level 75
Feb 23, 2019
I can
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Level 71
Nov 5, 2017
I think Guatemala has more Spanish speakers than Cuba. Cuba only has about 11 million people. Guatemala has about 16 million. And 93% of the people there speak Spanish. That is about 15 million people.
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Level ∞
Jul 25, 2019
93% speak Spanish but only 55% have Spanish as their mother tongue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Guatemala

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Level 26
Dec 5, 2017
i forgot spain lmao
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Level 51
Nov 3, 2020
Almost did too
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Level 34
Jun 2, 2018
I got the U.S.A with 4 seconds to go.
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Level 66
Jan 15, 2019
the last one was hard, I think i tried every country with spanish speakers besides cuba
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Level 37
Aug 5, 2019
I would never have guessed the USA. I suppose that, as usual, you are not including territories. Therefore, Puerto Rico is out. Given that, how can the USA have more native Spanish speakers than Venezuela and Spain?
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Level 74
Aug 31, 2019
I think the percentage is more important to look at when comparing USA to Spain and Venezuela. The US is only 13% of the population as opposed to the 74% and 98% of Spain and Venezuela, respectively.
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Level 57
Aug 31, 2019
I'm pretty sure you messed up Venezuela and Peru. Peru's population has been growing steadily over 30 million, while Venezuelans are fleeing in the millions from the socialist regime in Venezuela. Around 600 thousand Venezuelans are in Peru alone (I live here, venezuelans everywhere).
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Level 51
Aug 31, 2019
Missed Venezuela
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Level 43
Aug 31, 2019
It's missing almost 10 million native speakers in Spain, just cause they are bilingual it doesn't mean that they aren't native Spanish speaker, nobody considers a Catalan or a Basque person to be non native speakers of the Spanish language...
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Level 64
Aug 31, 2019
four minutes seems very long for only ten answers
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Level 72
Sep 5, 2019
Yep. Especially for a quiz that's basically "Name the biggest countries in Latin America + the one that colonized them".
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Level 60
Oct 14, 2021
and USA
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Level 32
Dec 20, 2019
izi 1 minute
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Level 42
May 26, 2020
somehow i missed cuba, didn't think it would be on there.
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Level 25
Jun 5, 2021
Me too
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Level 28
Jun 8, 2021
Like, it is so weird that the Colombians outnumber the Spanish
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Level 59
Jun 15, 2021
In Spain 34? no, im from Spain and everyboyd in all the regions speak spanish. This quiz is not a reality
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Level 60
Oct 14, 2021
The reason 25% of the population may not be counted is because they aren't all native speakers. There may also be regions that have less or no Spanish speakers.
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Level 43
Nov 10, 2022
No, everyone in Spain speaks Spanish natively, there are bilingual regions, but everyone speaks Spanish.
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Level 62
Nov 17, 2021
Should be Bolivia instead of Cuba.
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Level 71
Nov 10, 2022
For many people in Bolivia the native language is Quechua or Aymara, not Spanish.
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Level 54
Aug 3, 2022
Spain has more than 45 mil speakers
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Level 71
Nov 10, 2022
Spain hosts a significant number of immigrants from Morocco, Moldova and Romania whose native language isn't Spanish. Also, Castellano (Spanish) isn't the native/mother tongue of Galicians, Basques and Catalans.
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Level 63
Nov 10, 2022
I thought the Dominican Republic had a greater population than Cuba...
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Level 60
Jul 16, 2023
The DR is below Haiti at the moment.
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Level 64
Nov 10, 2022
Completely agree with those saying that Spain has as many Spanish speakers as inhabitants. All Spaniards speak Spanish, regardless of their mother tongue being Catalan, Basque or Galician.
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Level 82
Nov 10, 2022
Kinda amazed Guatemala has fewer than Cuba. Never realised there were that many speakers of native languages there.
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Level 43
Nov 13, 2022
Kept writing Equador with a q...
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Level 68
Feb 25, 2023
No Guatemala???
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Level 54
Mar 11, 2023
i cant believe I missed SPAINNN
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Level 20
Apr 4, 2023
I cant believe i missed us :))))) i mean really???
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Level 41
Jun 17, 2023
My real breakthrough came when I started thinking of countries in the Americas