Pick the Spanish word for a person from each country, such as costarricense.
Spanish Speaking Countries Nationalities Quiz
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Dominican Republic: what is a person from there called in Spanish?
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Write the name of each numbered nationality.Answer key
argentino, argentina
boliviano, boliviana
chileno, chilena
colombiano, colombiana
costarricense
cubano, cubana
dominicano, dominicana
ecuatoriano, ecuatoriana
salvadoreño, salvadoreña
ecuatoguineano, ecuatoguineana
guatemalteco, guatemalteca
hondureño, hondureña
mexicano, mexicana
nicaragüense
panameño, panameña
paraguayo, paraguaya
peruano, peruana
puertorriqueño, puertorriqueña
español, española
uruguayo, uruguaya
venezolano, venezolana
Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.
Each nationality is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a nationality is answered.
costarricenseCosta Rica: costarricense, the same for a man or a woman.
salvadoreño, salvadoreñaEl Salvador: salvadoreño for a man, salvadoreña for a woman.
guatemalteco, guatemaltecaGuatemala: guatemalteco for a man, guatemalteca for a woman.
hondureño, hondureñaHonduras: hondureño for a man, hondureña for a woman.
mexicano, mexicanaMexico: mexicano for a man, mexicana for a woman.
nicaragüenseNicaragua: nicaragüense, the same for a man or a woman.
panameño, panameñaPanama: panameño for a man, panameña for a woman.
Caribbean 3
cubano, cubanaCuba: cubano for a man, cubana for a woman.
dominicano, dominicanaThe Dominican Republic: dominicano for a man, dominicana for a woman.
puertorriqueño, puertorriqueñaPuerto Rico, a United States territory: puertorriqueño or puertorriqueña.
South America 9
argentino, argentinaArgentina: argentino for a man, argentina for a woman.
boliviano, bolivianaBolivia: boliviano for a man, boliviana for a woman.
chileno, chilenaChile: chileno for a man, chilena for a woman.
colombiano, colombianaColombia: colombiano for a man, colombiana for a woman.
ecuatoriano, ecuatorianaEcuador: ecuatoriano for a man, ecuatoriana for a woman.
paraguayo, paraguayaParaguay: paraguayo for a man, paraguaya for a woman.
peruano, peruanaPeru: peruano for a man, peruana for a woman.
uruguayo, uruguayaUruguay: uruguayo for a man, uruguaya for a woman.
venezolano, venezolanaVenezuela: venezolano for a man, venezolana for a woman.
Spain and Equatorial Guinea 2
ecuatoguineano, ecuatoguineanaEquatorial Guinea: ecuatoguineano for a man, ecuatoguineana for a woman.
español, españolaSpain: español for a man, española for a woman.
How this list was compiled: The Spanish word for a person from each place (gentilicio): Real Academia Española and Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, the appendix "Lista de países y capitales, con sus gentilicios", https://www.rae.es/dpd/ayuda/paises-y-capitales-con-sus-gentilicios. rae.es answered automated requests with HTTP 403 on 2026-10-01, so the list was read in the Internet Archive copy of 2025-08-23, https://web.archive.org/web/20250823085017/https://www.rae.es/dpd/ayuda/paises-y-capitales-con-sus-gentilicios, read 2026-10-01 (the copy that the site's world map in Spanish follows). Second text, read 2026-10-01: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Gentilicios, which gives the same first word for all 21 and adds guineano for Equatorial Guinea and mejicano for Mexico (both accepted when typed). Shapes, points and groups: the same map as the Spanish-speaking countries and capitals quiz, as it stood on 2026-09-19 (Natural Earth 5.1.2, credited under the drawing). 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 nationalities quiz names a country, lights it on the map, and you pick its nationality in Spanish, such as hondureño. It asks the 20 Spanish-speaking countries and Puerto Rico. Find it shows a word and you tap its country.
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Words with two forms and words with one
Most of these words end in -o for a man and -a for a woman: mexicano, mexicana. Español adds an a: española. Two have one form for everyone: costarricense and nicaragüense. None takes a capital letter; the quiz prints them as the Spanish language academies' list does.
Words that do not match the country's name
Guatemala gives guatemalteco and Honduras hondureño. Costa Rica and Puerto Rico each become one word: costarricense, puertorriqueño. El Salvador loses its article: salvadoreño. Equatorial Guinea gives ecuatoguineano, and the Dominican Republic dominicano.
When you type an answer, either form counts, and so does a word without its accent mark: salvadoreno, panamena.
Questions and answers
Why is Puerto Rico in the quiz?
The academies' list gives its word, puertorriqueño, so the quiz asks it. Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States, not a country. The list also allows portorriqueño, which counts when typed.
Which list do the nationalities follow?
The list of countries, capitals and gentilicios in the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, the usage dictionary of the Spanish language academies. Where it gives two words for one place, the first is asked and the second counts.
What is someone from Equatorial Guinea called in Spanish?
Ecuatoguineano, or ecuatoguineana for a woman. Equatorial Guinea is the one country of the quiz in Africa; the map shows it in a box beside South America.
Can I print it as a worksheet?
Yes. Open More options before you answer and press Print blank: the map prints with a number on each country and a numbered line for each nationality. The labeled print is the answer key.