How many countries use Spanish as their official language?

Countries that use Spanish as an official language include Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Spanish (Spanish: espa? Ol) is short for Spanish and belongs to Indo-European-Roman-West Roman branch.

Spanish is ranked by the number of speakers of the first language, with about 437 million people as their mother tongue, making it the second largest language in the world, second only to Chinese. The number of people who use Spanish accounts for 4.84% of the world population.

Spanish is called Spanish in parts of Spain, the United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia, Ecuador and Uruguay (espa? ol)； In other areas, Spanish is mainly called castellano.

Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.