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The Americas

Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Bermuda
Bolivia
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
Canada
Cayman Islands
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominica

Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Falkland Islands
French Guiana
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Martinique
Mexico
Montserrat
Netherlands Antilles

Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
St. Kitts-Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Pierre and Miquelon
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands
Uruguay
USA
Venezuela

 

Anguilla
Language: English

Antigua and Barbuda
Language: English and English-based patois

Argentina
People: 85% European descent, 15% mestizo, Indian and other minorities
Language: American Spanish, plus 17 indigenous languages

Aruba
Language: Dutch, Papiamento, plus English and Spanish

Bahamas
People: African descent (85%), European descent (12%), Asian & Hispanic (3%)
Language: English

Barbados
People: African (90%), English, Scottish & East Indians
Language: English

Belize
People: 44% mestizo, 30% Creole, 11% Maya, 7% Garifuna
Language: English, English Creole, Spanish, Maya and Garífuna

Bermuda
People: 61% African descent, 38% Caucasian descent, a small minority of American Indian descent
Language: English

Bolivia
People: 30% Quechua Indian, 25% mestizo, 30% Aymará Indian, approx 15% European (principally Spanish)
Language: Spanish but most Indians speak either Quechua or Aymará; composite dialects of Spanish-Aymará and Spanish-Quechua are also widely spoken

Brazil
People: 55% European descent, 38% mulatto, 6% African descent (according to the 1980 census). In reality, these figures are skewed by whiteness being equated with social stature in Brazil.
Language: Portuguese

British Virgin Islands
People: African descent (90%), North American, Asian
Language: English

Canada
People: British descent (28%), French descent (23%), Italian descent (3%), aboriginal peoples (2%), plus significant minorities of German, Ukrainian, Dutch, Greek, Polish and Chinese descent
Languages: English, French and 53 native languages

Cayman Islands
People: Mixed African and European descent
Language: English

Chile
People: 95% European descent and mestizo, 5% Indian
Language: Spanish and a handful of native languages, including Aymara, Mapuche and Rapa Nui

Colombia
People: 58% Mestizo (of European-Indian descent), 20% European descent, 14% mulatto (African-European descent), 4% African descent, 3% African-Indian descent, 1% indigenous
Language: Castilian Spanish, plus over 200 indigenous languages

Costa Rica
People: 96% Spanish descent, 2% African descent, 1% indigenous Indians, 1% Chinese
Language: Spanish, Creole English and Indian dialects

Cuba
People: 60% Spanish descent, 22% mulatto, 11% African descent, 1% Chinese
Language: Spanish

Dominica
People: African descent (90%), native Carib (4%)
Language: English, French-based patois

Dominican Republic
People: 73% mulatto, 16% European descent, 11% African descent

Ecuador
People: 40% mestizo, 40% Indian, 15% Spanish descent, 5% African descent
Language: Spanish, Quechua, Quichua, other indigenous languages

El Salvador
People: 94% mestizo (Spanish-Indian), 5% Indian, 1% European descent
Language: Spanish, some Nahua

Falkland Islands
People: British
Language: English

French Guiana
People: 70% Creole (African/Afro-European descent), 10% European, 8% Asian, 8% Brazilian, 4% Amerindian
Language: French, French Guianese creole, Amerindian languages

Greenland
Langauge: Greenlandic Inuktitut, Danish

Grenada
People: African descent (82%), mixed descent (13%), European and East Indian (5%)
Language: English, French-African patois

Guadeloupe
People: Mixed African, European and East Indian descent (75%), French
Language: French, some Creole patois

Guatemala
People: 56% mestizo/ladino descent, 44% Mayan descent
Language: Spanish, Garífuna and 21 Mayan languages

Guyana
People: 51% East Indian, 43% Afro-Guyanese, 4% Amerindian, 2% European & Chinese
Language: English (though most Guyanese speak a creole), also Hindi and Urdu

Haiti

People: 95% African descent, 5% mulatto and European descent

Honduras
People: 90% mestizo, 7% Indian
Language: Spanish, Creole English and Indian dialects

Jamaica
People: 76% African descent, 15% Afro-European descent, 4% European, 3% East Indian & Middle Eastern, 1% Afro-Chinese & Chinese
Language: English and patois

Martinique

People: African descent (90%) French (5%), plus Indian, Syrian and Lebanese
Language: French, French Creole patois, some English

Mexico
People: Approximately 60% mestizo (mixed European and Amerindian descent) and 30% Amerindian (indígena - including Nahua, Maya, Zapotecs, Mixtecs, Totonacs, and Tarascos or Purépecha)
Language: Spanish and 59 indigenous languages

Montserrat
Language: English

Netherlands Antilles
Language: Dutch

Nicaragua
People: 69% mestizo, 17% European descent, 9% African descent, 5% indigenous peoples
Language: Spanish, English Creole, Miskito

Panama
People: 65% mestizo, 14% African descent, 10% Spanish descent, 10% Indian
Language: Spanish, English and Indian languages

Paraguay
People: 95% Mestizo
Language: Officially Spanish, but Guaraní is widely spoken

Peru
People: 54% Indian, 32% Mestizo (mixed European and Indian descent), 12% Spanish descent, 2% Black, Asian minority
Language: Spanish, Quechua, Aymara

Puerto Rico
Language: Spanish, English

St. Kitts-Nevis
People: African (90%), European
Language: English

St. Lucia
People: African (90%), mixed descent (6%), European and East Indian (4%)
Language: English & French-based patois

St. Pierre and Miquelon
Language: French

St. Vincent and the Grenadines
People: African (75%), Black Carib (1%) and Scottish
Language: English, French patois

Suriname
People: 35% East Indian, 32% Afro-Surinamese, 15% Indonesian, 10% Maroons (descendants of ex-slaves who inhabit the upland forests)
Language: Dutch, and also English, Sranan (an English-based Creole), Hindi, Javanese and Chinese

Trinidad and Tobago
People: African (39%), East Indian (61%), with significant European, Chinese, Syrian, Lebanese and Carib minorities
Language: English, Hindi, Creole, Spanish and Chinese

Turks and Caicos Islands
People: Mainly African descent, plus Haitians and Dominican immigrants, and North American and European expats
Language: English

U.S. Virgin Islands
People: African descent (75%), US mainland expats (13%), Puerto Rican (5%), Danish, French
Language: English, plus some Creole, Spanish and French

Uruguay
People: 88% European descent, 8% Mestizo, 4% Black
Language: Spanish

USA
People: Caucasian (71%), African American (12%), Latino (12%), Asian (4%), Native American (0.9%)
Languages: English, plus many secondary languages, chiefly Spanish

Venezuela
People: 67% mestizo, 21% European descent, 10% African descent, 2% indigenous. There are approximately 200,000 Amerindians, remnants of a number of diverse semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer societies.
Language: Spanish is the official language, but more than 30 Amerindian languages still survive, predominantly belonging to the Arawak, Cariban and Chibcha ethnolinguistic categories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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