What language is Spanish?

Popular in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Spain, Peru, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Paraguay, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Cuba, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Uruguay, Chile, Dominica and Equatorial Guinea. As a second language, it is widely used in the United Nations, Belize and Western Sahara.

Distribution: Europe (Spain, Andorra and the United States) and European immigrant countries, America (Latin America, Caribbean, the United States), Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara (parts of Africa), Easter Island, while users in immigrant communities in Australia, London and Asian countries (Philippines, etc.) are decreasing.

Number of users: 332 million

Rank: 2

Language family:

Language family: Indo-European language family

Italian-speaking

Roman language family

Italy-West

western

Gallo-Iberian language

Iberian

West Iberian language

Spanish

government post

Countries as official languages: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela, and Western Sahara (as the official language of the Philippines until 1987).

Management Organization: Real Academic Espa? Left occipital front

(Royal Spanish Academy)

Language code

ISO 639- 1 es

ISO 639-2 spa

SIL SPN

National population 1 100 million. Mexico City180,000.

Mexico is located in the southwest of North America. It borders the United States to the north, Guatemala and Belize to the southeast, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south. With an area of over 6.5438+0.97 million square kilometers, it is the third largest country in North America with a population of nearly 65.438+0 billion.

Mexico City is the capital of Mexico, located in the valley of the plateau in south-central Mexico, with an altitude of 2,240 meters. It is known as the largest city in the world, with an area of 1500 square kilometers and a population of180,000. It is the political, economic, cultural and transportation center of China, with about12 industrial, commercial, service and banking financial institutions.

Mexico City can be traced back to the Indian period. Its predecessor is Tenochtitlan, Tenoch, which was founded in 1325. In the language of its founder Aztec, "Mexico" evolved from "Mexitri", meaning "son of the sun and the moon". The Aztecs created a splendid civilization here. They fill lakes to build cities, build waterways and build magnificent temples and palaces. The whole city is quite prosperous. 152 1 years after the Spanish invasion, many European-style palaces, churches, monasteries and other buildings were built. At this time, it was named Mexico City, which is famous as "Miyagi" in Europe. Today's Mexico not only retains a strong national cultural color, but also is a colorful modern city.

Mexico City is a world-famous tourist city. The north and south are slightly longer and the east and west are slightly narrower. The northeast is an ancient cultural area, and the southwest is a modern emerging industrial area. Constitution Square is the center of Mexico City. There is a thick flagpole in the center of the square, and the daily flag-raising ceremony attracts many domestic and foreign tourists. There are national palaces, municipal buildings, museums and cathedrals around the square. All kinds of buildings combine the past and the present and have unique scenery. Aztec altar, colonial cathedral and ivory modern architecture with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the main body show the vicissitudes of the city for more than 600 years.

Reform Street and Insurgents Street are two main roads of the city, which run through the city from east to west and from north to south. Next to it are beautiful and spacious streets with beautiful environment, banks, hotels, restaurants, theaters, nightclubs and so on. The villas with different styles and exquisite luxury are hidden in the shade of trees. There are many squares, monuments, statues, memorial halls and cultural and entertainment places in the city, which can enable many tourists to understand and know the history and culture of Mexico from all directions and angles. The famous National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico has comprehensively demonstrated the origin and development of ancient Latin American culture through more than 27,000 ancient cultural relics. The Independence Monument reflects the history of the Mexican people's struggle for independence.

Mexico City is surrounded by mountains, with a mild climate and spring-like seasons. Gardens, large and small, are embedded in every corner of the city with beautiful scenery. In the northeast suburb of the city, there are world-famous Mayan monuments, pyramid of the sun and the Moon Pyramid, which attract thousands of tourists every day.