Latin+America

=Latin America =

Countries in Latin America: Argentina, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Jamaica, Peru

General Information
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish, Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,501 km² (7,880,000 sq mi), almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area. As of 2009, its population was estimated at more than 571 million. This includes the countries in Central America, the Caribbean, South America and the Andean states. Overall Latin America consists of twenty different countries. The smallest country in Latin America is El Salvador and the largest country is Brazil. Famous landmarks throughout Latin America include Aconcagua in the Andes which is a 6962 m (22841 ft) summit high mountain, the Amazon in South America which is the longest river  and lake titicaca on the border of Bolivia and Peru is the largest lake. As of 2008 Latin America had a combined GDP of 6.096 Trillion United States dollars which would make the region the second largest economy in the world if unified. As of 2010 [|Bloomberg] reported that Latin America as a whole had a positive economic growth rate of 5.62%. 

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