About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 111. Chapters: List of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent, Latin America, Developed country, Developing country, Third World, G8, Four Asian Tigers, Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, Old World, Arab world, First World, Second World, BRIC, Digital divide, Western world, Hispanophone, Greater India, Semi-periphery countries, Core countries, Emerging markets, Least Developed Country, PIGS, North-South divide, Hispanic America, Next Eleven, Romance-speaking Europe, Newly industrialized country, Sinosphere, Romance-speaking Asia, Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, Greater China, CIVETS, Latin Union, Developed market, Ibero-America, Fourth World, Romance-speaking Africa, List of countries bordering on two or more oceans, G20 developing nations, Eastern world, BASIC countries, New World, Trillion dollar club, High income economy, Western Bloc, 3G, Free country, G-Zero, Three Worlds Theory, Digital Opportunity Index, G33, Last World, VISTA, E7, NACAr, Pre-emerging markets. Excerpt: Latin America (Spanish: or Latinoamerica; Portuguese: French: ) is a region of the Americas where Romance languages (i.e., those derived from Latin) - particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French - are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km (7,880,000 sq mi), almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area. As of 2010, its population was estimated at more than 590 million and its combined GDP at 5.16 trillion United States dollars (6.27 trillion at PPP). The Latin American expected economic growth rate is at about 5.7% for 2010 and 4% in 2011. The idea that a part of the Americas has a cultural affinity with the Romance cultures as a whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in particular in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postul...
