What are the Spanish speaking countries in Central America and the Caribbean?
Spanish-speaking countries of Central America are Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama. The only official language of Belize is English, but Spanish is widely used and officially recognized as a regional language. In the Caribbean: Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Puerto Rico is also Spanish-speaking but is a territory of the United States. The islands of San Andres and Providencia are part of Colombia, which is Spanish-speaking, but most residents speak a creole language which is English-based but which has many Spanish loanwords. Spanish is an official language of Trinidad and Tobago but is not a majority language there. Papiamento, a Spanish-based creole language, is official in Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles, which are both Dutch territories in the Caribbean.
