Spanish Speaking Countries Quiz

The 21 names from Spanish class on one blank map, with Spain and Equatorial Guinea in boxes of their own.

Spanish Speaking Countries Quiz

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

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

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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 Now the capitals, Madrid to Montevideo: 20 countriesNext: the Caribbean, 13 countries and 15 territories

All 21 countries and territories on the diagram

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The 20 countries 2

  1. Equatorial Guinea Capital: Ciudad de la Paz, on the mainland, since January 2026. Malabo, on the island of Bioko, was the capital until then. Spanish, French and Portuguese are all official. Drawn larger than the main map.
  2. Spain Capital: Madrid. It covers most of the Iberian Peninsula. The Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla also belong to it and lie outside this box. Drawn larger than the main map.

Mexico, Central America, Caribbean 10

  1. Costa Rica Capital: San José. Its 1949 constitution abolished the army. That makes it one of the few countries with no standing military.
  2. Cuba Capital: Havana, which is La Habana in Spanish. By area, the Caribbean's largest country.
  3. Dominican Republic Capital: Santo Domingo, site of the Americas' first permanent European settlement. The country has the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola, and Haiti has the rest.
  4. El Salvador Capital: San Salvador. Its only coast is on the Pacific. It lies between Guatemala (northwest) and Honduras (northeast).
  5. Guatemala Capital: Guatemala City. Central America's most populous country. The Maya civilization had its core here.
  6. Honduras Capital: Tegucigalpa. It has a long coast on the Caribbean. It has a short one on the Pacific, at the Gulf of Fonseca.
  7. Mexico Capital: Mexico City. Has more native Spanish speakers than any other country. It borders the United States on the north and Guatemala and Belize on the southeast.
  8. Nicaragua Capital: Managua. The largest country in Central America by area. Nicknamed the land of volcanoes and lakes.
  9. Panama Capital: Panama City. The Panama Canal crosses the country. It was built between 1904 and 1914 and passed from the United States to Panama, December 31, 1999.
  10. Puerto Rico Capital: San Juan. Not a country. A United States unincorporated territory. Spanish and English are both official, and Spanish predominates. It is the 21st name on the classroom list, after the 20 countries.

South America 9

  1. Argentina Capital: Buenos Aires. The world's eighth-largest country. The largest on this list. In South America only Brazil, where Portuguese is spoken, is bigger.
  2. Bolivia Capitals: Sucre, the constitutional capital, and La Paz, the seat of government. Spanish shares official status with 36 indigenous languages. One of the two countries in the Americas with no coast.
  3. Chile Capital: Santiago. A narrow strip between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean. The world's southernmost country. Easter Island, far out in the Pacific, belongs to it.
  4. Colombia Capital: Bogotá. The Caribbean Sea lies to its north. The Pacific Ocean is to its west. Second on this list by population, after Mexico.
  5. Ecuador Capital: Quito. The country's name is the Spanish word for equator. The Galápagos Islands, about 1,000 km west of the mainland, are part of it and are drawn on this map.
  6. Paraguay Capital: Asunción. Landlocked, like Bolivia. Spanish and Guarani are both official, and more than 90% of the people speak Guarani alongside Spanish.
  7. Peru Capital: Lima. The third-largest country in South America. The Inca Empire, the largest state known in the Americas before Columbus, arose here.
  8. Uruguay Capital: Montevideo. The second-smallest country in South America, after Suriname. Nearly 2 million of its almost 3.5 million people live in and around the capital.
  9. Venezuela Capital: Caracas. Stilt houses on Lake Maracaibo reminded a navigator of Venice. He was Amerigo Vespucci. The name of the country is said to come from that.

How this list was compiled: The list is the 20 sovereign states where Spanish is the national language by law or in practice, plus Puerto Rico, which makes the 21 taught in Spanish classes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_where_Spanish_is_an_official_language (the list, the order by population, the languages of Equatorial Guinea and the status and languages of Puerto Rico) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_America (18 countries in the Americas, with Puerto Rico listed apart as a territory of the United States), checked 2026-09-19. All 20 countries are member states of the United Nations; Puerto Rico is not, and is never counted as a country here. Capitals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_the_Americas and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capitals (the two capitals of Bolivia, and Ciudad de la Paz in place of Malabo), checked 2026-09-19. Ciudad de la Paz as capital since January 2026, on the mainland, formerly Oyala: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_de_la_Paz, checked 2026-09-19. The names in Spanish in the accepted spellings: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Pa%C3%ADses_donde_el_espa%C3%B1ol_es_idioma_oficial, checked 2026-09-19. Landlocked countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlocked_country, checked 2026-09-19. The single facts in the detail lines come from the lead of each country's article, all checked 2026-09-19: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduras, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela. Spain and Equatorial Guinea sit in two framed boxes drawn larger than the main map; the Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla and the island of Annobón lie outside the boxes. The shapes that cannot be tapped (Belize, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Haiti and Jamaica) are drawn for position and are never asked. Positions and sizes in the hints were read off the drawing, which is equal-area. Hints and detail lines written for this site. 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°S 76°W. Spain; Equatorial Guinea moved into insets. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This Spanish speaking countries quiz asks the 20 countries where Spanish is the national language, plus Puerto Rico, on one blank map. Find it names a place to tap. Name it lights one up to type or choose.

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The list behind this Spanish countries map quiz

Eighteen of the countries are in the Americas, from Mexico down to Argentina and Chile. Spain and Equatorial Guinea make 20. Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States, not a country, so the set The 20 countries leaves it out. Brazil, Belize, Haiti, Jamaica and the Guianas are drawn for position and never asked.

How a round of 21 goes

Two more sets zoom the map: Mexico, Central America, Caribbean (10) and South America (9). El Salvador and Puerto Rico are too small to tap, so each has a numbered ring. Spain and Equatorial Guinea sit in two boxes drawn larger than the main map, so do not judge Spain against Mexico by size.

  • Caribbean, west to east: Cuba, the Dominican Republic on the island it shares with Haiti, then ringed Puerto Rico.
  • The only two with no coast sit together in mid-continent: Bolivia, the larger, above Paraguay.
  • Older worksheets give Malabo as Equatorial Guinea's capital. Since January 2026 it is Ciudad de la Paz, on the mainland.

Questions and answers

Is this the 21 Spanish speaking countries quiz from Spanish class?

Yes. Most classes teach 21 names: the 20 countries where Spanish is the national language by law or in practice, plus Puerto Rico, where Spanish and English are both official. For a Spanish countries quiz with sovereign states only, pick The 20 countries under Start from.

Is there a Map Labeling: Spanish Speaking Countries answer key?

Print labelled works as one: this map with all 21 names on it. That handout was not made here and may number the countries differently, so check your answers by name. Print blank gives the numbered map with 21 lines.

Is a Spanish map quiz about Spain or about all these countries?

It can mean either. This is a Spanish speaking country map quiz, with Spain as one shape among 21. For Spain itself, the Spain quiz asks its 17 autonomous communities, and the Mexico quiz asks 31 states and Mexico City.

Why is Equatorial Guinea on a list of Spanish speaking countries?

It was a Spanish colony until 12 October 1968, and Spanish is still its main official language, beside French and Portuguese. It is the one sovereign country in Africa with Spanish as official, so it has a box of its own beside South America.

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