About Spanish

Spanish is ranked according to the number of first language users. About 437 million people use it as their mother tongue, making it the second language in the world after Chinese. The number of people who speak Spanish accounts for 4.84% of the world's population. , with a combined first and second language speakers of nearly 570 million people. Mainly in Spain and Latin America.

Spanish is known as Spanish (Español) in Spain, the United States, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay; elsewhere it is primarily known as Castile Castellano. Spanish is one of the six working languages ​​of the United Nations.