Latin America Countries Quiz

Twenty countries from Mexico to Argentina where Spanish, Portuguese or French is spoken, and Puerto Rico.

Latin America Countries Quiz

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Write the name of each numbered country or territory.Answer key

  1. Mexico
  2. Guatemala
  3. Honduras
  4. Nicaragua
  5. El Salvador
  6. Costa Rica
  7. Panama
  8. Cuba
  9. Dominican Republic
  10. Haiti
  11. Puerto Rico
  12. Brazil
  13. Argentina
  14. Colombia
  15. Peru
  16. Venezuela
  17. Chile
  18. Ecuador
  19. Bolivia
  20. Paraguay
  21. Uruguay

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each country or territory is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a country or territory is answered.

Next step Next: the Spanish-speaking countries, Spain included

All 21 countries and territories on the diagram

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Mexico and Central America 7

  1. Mexico Capital: Mexico City. Spanish-speaking, and the northernmost country of Latin America.
  2. Guatemala Capital: Guatemala City. Spanish-speaking, just southeast of Mexico.
  3. Honduras Capital: Tegucigalpa. Spanish-speaking, between Guatemala and Nicaragua.
  4. Nicaragua Capital: Managua. Spanish-speaking, between Honduras and Costa Rica.
  5. El Salvador Capital: San Salvador. Spanish-speaking, on the Pacific side below Honduras.
  6. Costa Rica Capital: San José. Spanish-speaking, between Nicaragua and Panama.
  7. Panama Capital: Panama City. Spanish-speaking, where Central America meets South America.

Caribbean 4

  1. Cuba Capital: Havana. Spanish-speaking, the long island south of Florida.
  2. Dominican Republic Capital: Santo Domingo. Spanish-speaking, east of Haiti on the same island.
  3. Haiti Capital: Port-au-Prince. French-speaking, so only the wider list counts it.
  4. Puerto Rico Capital: San Juan. A Spanish-speaking United States territory, not a country.

South America 10

  1. Brazil Capital: Brasília. Portuguese-speaking, and the largest country in Latin America.
  2. Argentina Capital: Buenos Aires. Spanish-speaking, east of Chile in the far south.
  3. Colombia Capital: Bogotá. Spanish-speaking, the first country of South America after Panama.
  4. Peru Capital: Lima. Spanish-speaking, on the Pacific coast south of Ecuador.
  5. Venezuela Capital: Caracas. Spanish-speaking, on the Caribbean coast east of Colombia.
  6. Chile Capital: Santiago. Spanish-speaking, the long strip down the Pacific coast.
  7. Ecuador Capital: Quito. Spanish-speaking, on the Pacific between Colombia and Peru.
  8. Bolivia Capitals: Sucre and La Paz. Spanish-speaking, with no coast.
  9. Paraguay Capital: Asunción. Spanish-speaking, with no coast, below Bolivia.
  10. Uruguay Capital: Montevideo. Spanish-speaking, between Brazil and Argentina on the Atlantic.

How this list was compiled: The list is Latin America by language: the sovereign states of the Americas where Spanish, Portuguese or French is the main language. Wikipedia, Latin America (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America, read 2026-10-01) gives the most common definition as the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, 19 sovereign states with Puerto Rico usually included, and a wider one that adds the countries where French predominates, which adds Haiti; its table of countries gives each capital. The page asks those 20 states and Puerto Rico. Every state is a member of the United Nations and stands under Latin America and the Caribbean in the United Nations Statistics Division list of regions (M49, https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/, read 2026-10-01); capitals were read a second time in Wikipedia, List of national capitals (read 2026-10-01). Belize, Guyana, Suriname, Jamaica and the other English- and Dutch-speaking states of that United Nations region are drawn and not asked. Positions in the notes were read off the drawing. Items made on 2026-10-01; names, ids, rings and accepted spellings are Natural Earth's. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 12°N 85°W. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. 7 places are too small to draw at this scale and shown as a dot. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This Latin America countries quiz asks 20 countries and Puerto Rico on a blank map that runs from Mexico to Cape Horn. The first round covers Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. The second is South America.

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Which countries count as Latin America

Latin America is defined by language, not by a coastline. The most common list is the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries: 18 where Spanish is the main language, and Brazil. A wider list adds French-speaking Haiti. Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, is usually included, so it is asked too. A Latin American countries quiz in class may use a longer list: see the questions below.

How this Latin American map quiz handles small countries

El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are too small to tap at this scale, so each has a numbered ring beside it. Belize, Guyana, Suriname, Jamaica and the smaller islands are drawn but never asked.

  • Two countries have no coast: Bolivia and Paraguay, one above the other in the middle of South America.
  • Haiti and the Dominican Republic share one island. Haiti is the western part.
  • Chile is the thin strip down the Pacific side; Argentina is the wide country beside it.

Questions and answers

How many countries are in Latin America?

Nineteen by the most common definition, which counts the countries where Spanish or Portuguese is the main language. Adding Haiti, where French is spoken, makes 20. Puerto Rico is not a country, but most lists include it. This page asks all 21.

Is Brazil part of Latin America?

Yes. Portuguese is a language that came from Latin, as Spanish is. Most of its speakers are in Brazil, the region's largest and most populous country.

Why are Belize, Guyana, Suriname and Jamaica not asked?

English is the main language of Belize, Guyana and Jamaica, and Dutch of Suriname, so the language definition leaves them out. If your class list is every country south of the United States, find them on the Central America, South America and Caribbean pages.

Is a Latin countries quiz the same as a Spanish-speaking countries quiz?

No. The Spanish-speaking list drops Brazil and Haiti and adds Spain and Equatorial Guinea, which are not in the Americas. Eighteen countries and Puerto Rico are on both lists.

Is this a Latin America political map quiz?

Yes. The map shows the borders between countries and nothing else: no rivers, mountains or cities. Each country is one shape, and the quiz asks for it by name.

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