Official List of Regions and Countries for Oral Reports

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Note: Students choose a Spanish autonomía or Hispanic country (other than Spain), do research in library on one key aspect (geography, history, society, economy, customs, arts, etc.), and give an oral report with a written outline (1-2 pp. distributed in tutorial) and visual aids (illustrated books, photographs, maps, etc.).

SPAIN

17 autonomous regions [autonomías] (with capitals):

1. Andalucía (Sevilla)
2. Aragón (Zaragoza)
3. Asturias (Oviedo)
4. Balears / Baleares (Palma)
5. Canarias (Las Palmas)
6. Cantabria (Santander)
7. Castilla-León (Valladolid)
8. Castilla-La Mancha (Toledo)
9. Catalunya / Cataluña (Barcelona)
10. Euskadi / País Vasco (Vitoria)
11. Extremadura (Mérida)
12. Galicia (Santiago de Compostela)
13. Madrid (Madrid)
14. Murcia (Murcia)
15. Navarra (Pamplona)
16. País Valencià / Valencia (Valencia)
17. La Rioja (Logroño)

Hispanic World

23+ Spanish-speaking nations (with capitals) – grand total of over 350 million

EUROPE: total 40 million

1. España (Madrid)–40 million
   Note: It includes 7 million Catalan speakers, 1 million Basque speakers, 0.5 million Galician speakers, all bilingual in Spanish]
2. Andorra (Andorra la Vella)–42,000
   Note: All are Catalan speakers who are bilingual in Spanish]

NORTH AMERICA: total 178 million

N. AMERICA–mainland: total 130 million

3. México (México D.F.)–80 million
   Note: Mexico is second largest city in world (21 million).
4. EE.UU. / USA (Washington)–30 million
   Note: Los Angeles is largest US Hispanic city.

N. AMERICA–Caribbean: total 20 million

5. Cuba (La Habana)–10 million
6. República Dominicana
   (Santo Domingo)–7 million
7. Puerto Rico (San Juan)–3 million
   Note: PR is autonomous but under US jurisdiction as estado libre asociado with commonwealth status.
   All Puerto Ricans are considered US citizens.

N. AMERICA–Central America: total 28 million

8. Guatemala (Guatemala)–9 million
9. El Salvador (San Salvador)–5 million
10. Honduras (Tegucigalpa)–5 million
11. Nicaragua (Managua)–4 million
12. Costa Rica (San José)–3 million
13. Panamá (Panamá)–2 million

SOUTH AMERICA: total 133 million

14. Colombia (Bogotá)-33 million
15. Venezuela (Caracas)-9 million
16. Ecuador (Quito)-10 million
17. Perú (Lima)-22 million
18. Bolivia (La Paz)-6 million
19. Chile (Santiago)-13 million
20. Argentina (Buenos Aires)-33 million
21. Uruguay (Montevideo)-3 million
22. Paraguay (Asunción)-4 million

AFRICA: total 0.5 million

23. Guinea Ecuatorial (Malabo / Santa Isabel)-
    390,000 [includes former Fernando Póo]
24. [Marruecos / Morocco (Rabat)]
    Note: Ceuta & Melilla still belong to Spain.
    Spanish-speakers are in former Span. colonies Tanger to Tetuan in north till 1956; Ifni, Cabo Juby & Span./W. Sahara in south till 1969-76).

ASIA-former Pacific colonies

25. [Filipinas / Philippines (Manila)-till 1898]
    Note: Only a small minority still speaks Spanish after US occupation in 1898 and independence in 1946. Now official languages are Pilipino and English.
26. [Guam-till 1898, now US territory]
27. [Islas Carolinas-till 1899, now Federated States of Micronesia, in association with US]
28. [Islas Marianas-till 1899, now Northern Mariana Is., autonomous US commonwealth]
29. [Palau-till 1899, now independent, in in association with US]

Largest Hispanic cities in world

(metropolitan areas):

1. México D.F. (México)–21 million
2. Buenos Aires (Argentina)–12 million
3. Lima (Perú)–7 million
4. Bogotá (Colombia)–6 million
5. Santiago (Chile)-5 million
6. Madrid (España)-4.5 million
7. Los Angeles (USA)-4 million [out of total 10]
8. Barcelona (España)-3.5 million