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latin amer·i·ca
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Princeton's WordNet
Latin Americanoun
the parts of North America and South America to the south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken
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Latin Americanoun
That part of the American continents that speak Spanish, Portuguese, or French; the part of the American continents south of the United States.
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Latin Americanoun
Those parts of the Americas which speak Spanish or Portuguese, Latin-derived languages: South America, Central America, Mexico, and most islands of the Carribean.
Etymology: From Amérique latine thought to be coined by French Emperor Napoleon III.
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latin america
Latin America generally refers to territories in the Americas where Romance languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, and French are predominantly spoken. This includes most parts of South America, Central America, and Mexico in North America. It may also include parts of the Caribbean where Spanish and French are spoken. The term 'Latin America' is used to contrast with 'Anglo-America', which primarily includes the territories in the Americas where English is spoken.
Wikidata
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km², almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area. As of 2010, its population was estimated at more than 590 million and its combined GDP at 5.16 trillion United States dollars. According to Phelan, the term "Latin America" was first used in 1861 in La revue des races Latines, a magazine "dedicated to the cause of Pan-Latinism".
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Latin America
The geographic area of Latin America in general and when the specific country or countries are not indicated. It usually includes Central America, South America, Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of latin america in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of latin america in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of latin america in a Sentence
If you took the Chinese rally out, I don't think you'd see a lot of markets that are up this year: Latin America not, India not.
Travelers headed to Latin America will soon have more seamless access to more than 100 additional destinations with LATAM beyond American's already extensive network.
What is going to change towards Venezuela? Nothing. Because that is the policy of the empire, they believe Latin America and the Caribbean is their backyard and belongs to them ... If they checked all (Trump's) calls in the last year, they would find enough evidence to prove the abuse of power against noble Venezuela.
Bard College professor Omar Encarnacion:
Unquestionably, Latin America is the champion of LGBT rights in the Global South.
Ideologues in Western governments never cease in their efforts to engineer unrest against governments that are not to their liking, even though their actions have caused misery and chaos in country after country in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, now they are trying the same trick in China.
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- Amerika LatinIndonesian
- latin amerikaNorwegian
- 拉丁美洲Chinese
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