![]() ![]() His argument is that French imperialists used the concept of "Latin" America as a way to counter British imperialism, as well as to challenge the German threat to France. Historian John Leddy Phelan located the origins of the term Latin America to be from the French occupation of Mexico. Research has shown that the idea that a part of the Americas has a linguistic and cultural affinity with the Romance cultures as a whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that a part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a " Latin race", and that it could, therefore, ally itself with " Latin Europe", ultimately overlapping the Latin Church, in a struggle with " Teutonic Europe," " Anglo-Saxon America," and " Slavic Europe." The term Latin America was a part of its attempt to create a French empire in the Americas. It was also popularized in 1860s France during the reign of Napoleon III. The concept and term came into being in the nineteenth century, following the political independence of countries from the Spanish and Portuguese empires. There is no universal agreement on the origin of the term Latin America. It is also known as Latin America's Integration. Presencia de América Latina ( Presence of Latin America, 1964–65) is a 300 m 2 (3,230 sq ft) mural at the hall of the Arts House of the University of Concepción, Chile. As of March 2, 2020, the population of Latin America and the Caribbean was estimated at more than 652 million, and in 2019, Latin America had a combined nominal GDP of US$5,188,250 trillion and a GDP PPP of US$10,284,588 trillion. It has an area of approximately 19,197,000 km 2 (7,412,000 sq mi), almost 13% of the Earth's land surface area. The region covers an area that stretches from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego and includes much of the Caribbean. The term was further popularized by French emperor Napoleon III's government in the 1860s as Amérique latine to justify France's military involvement in the Second Mexican Empire and to include French-speaking territories in the Americas such as French Canada, French Louisiana, French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti and the French Antillean Creole Caribbean islands Saint Lucia and Dominica, in the larger group of countries where Spanish and Portuguese languages prevailed. Idea de un Congreso Federal de las Repúblicas), by the Chilean politician Francisco Bilbao. ![]() The term Latin America was first used in an 1856 conference called "Initiative of America: Idea for a Federal Congress of the Republics" ( Iniciativa de la América. ![]() The term "Latin America" is broader than categories such as Hispanic America, which specifically refers to Spanish-speaking countries and Ibero-America, a term not generally used that specifically refers to Spanish, French and French Creole-speaking countries and Portuguese-speaking countries sometimes leaving French and British excolonies aside. The term does not have a precise definition, but it is "commonly used to describe South America, Central America, Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean." In a narrow sense, it refers to Spanish America, Brazil ( Portuguese America), French West Indies and Antillean Creole French speaking Caribbean countries. The term was coined in the nineteenth century, to refer to regions in the Americas that were ruled by the Spanish, Portuguese and French empires. Latin America is a cultural concept denoting the Americas where Romance languages-languages derived from Latin-are predominantly spoken. Quechua, Mayan languages, Antillean Creole, Guaraní, Aymara, Nahuatl, Haitian Creole, German, English, Dutch, Mapudungun, Yiddish, Welsh, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, other languages
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