Biggest Cities in Latin America Quiz

Havana?

according to the site they used, Havana only has 2,135,498

Haiti is a very odd anomaly - it shouldn't be in there, but is generally included on the list - Cuba and the Dominican Republic are the ONLY two other countries in the Caribbean considered part of Latin America. The other countries all speak English, Dutch or French and are not considered part of Latin America - I guess Haiti is included due to sharing an island with the Dominican Republic. But Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia, Kitts & Nevis, Vincent & Grenadines, Antigua & Barbuda and the Bahamas are NOT part of Latin America and not grouped in. Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and Belize are also not included despite being contiguous.

portuguese are NOT hispanic. that comes from hispania (spain)

So latin america technily includes haiti and quebec, but hispanoamerica excludes brazil.

I think a much more useful term and the one people actually mean when they say latinoamerica is IBERO america, from iberia, so that includes only portuguese and spanish speaking coutries.

No, when I say latin america, i mean the americas excluding the us and canada.

French-speaking would include St. Lucia, then.

There are varying definitions of what defines Latin America. The general definition is that it includes all of the countries in America south of the US where either Spanish, Portuguese or French (Latin-descended languages or Romance languages) prevails or is designated as national/official languages. Sometimes, it also includes creole languages as well. So, countries like Guyana, Suriname, Jamaica, Belize and some others in the Carribeans are not included as either English or Dutch prevails there (but if you count the creole languages as well, then St. Lucia and Dominica are part of it, as French-based languages are spoken widely there). Quebec in Canada and and St. Pierre & Miquelon are usually not included due to cultural and geographic differences. Ibero-America consists of Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America, whereas Hispanic America includes only the Spanish-speaking part of it. Once again, opinions may vary. There is no strict definition of this.

So that's why when we say "Latin Music" we famously mean musettes and the cancan, right?

Tegucigalpa is a long way from 20 million people, so there's that hint that Latin America is broader.

This quiz is so much easier after the 2014 World Cup.

Yes, it is

"Latin America is a region of the Americas, that comprises countries where Romance languages are spoken; primarily Spanish and Portuguese, but also French. It consists of twenty sovereign states which cover an area that stretches from the southern border of the United States to the southern tip of South America, including the Caribbean." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America

Also latino is not a race. Indigenous people from latin countries are latino. European-descended people from those countries are latino. African-descended people from those countries are latino. My friend who was born in Venezuela to Chinese immigrant parents is still latina. All of the mixed-race families that come out of those cultures are latino. Cousins could be separated across Haiti and DR and one of them will be latino because he was raised in that culture and the one raised in Haiti wouldn't be latino. Afro-latino just means someone has African descent and was raised in a Latin American culture. It doesn't actually mean anything about mixed race.

Latino is about culture and nationality, not race.

I can never remember how to spell Guayaquil...

Belo Horizonte ?

Miami ?

I was going to comment this is the only time Belo hasn't auto filled.

Why, it's almost as if Brazil is one of the biggest and most-populous countries in the world. :O

Latin America, as stated in another post, is distinct from Hispanic America. "Hispanic America" are those countries in the Americas which speak Spanish; whereas "Latin America" includes those that speak French and Portuguese.

A definition of "Latin America" in the description would be helpful to clear up the extremely debatable issue.

I agree with this comment. Latin America is often used interchangeably with "Central America" (whether or not that's correct is another conversation) so providing a definition of what "Latin America" is for this quiz would be helpful.

For some reason I did it like South America. Oops...

May I introduce y'all to the term "Iberoamerica"

Whereas Latin America problematicly includes french speaking places like Quebec and Haiti; and Hispano América excludes brazil; Iberoamerica refers only to those languages originating in the iberian peninsula.

So Iberoamerica = hipanoamerica + brazil