KERALA PSC / WORLD GEOGRAPHY / LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES / NOTES / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

 

KERALA PSC / WORLD GEOGRAPHY / LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES / NOTES / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

KERALA PSC / WORLD GEOGRAPHY / LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES / NOTES / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

·      Alternatively, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Suriname, Netherlands Antilles, Belize, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are considered to be part of Latin America, but it is not always the case

·      Mostly due to the fact that those are English-speaking countries (Belize, Jamaica) or are colonies, territories and dependencies and not fully-independent countries (Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rica)

·      Latin America is a region of the Americas where Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French are primarily spoken

·      Latin America consist of 3.9% of the Earth’s surface or 14.1% of its land surface area.

·      Its population was estimated at more than 568 million

·      Latin America can be subdivided into several sub regions based on geography, politics, demographics and culture. Some geographical sub regions are North America, Central America, the Caribbean and South America

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