Latin American Countries in North/Central America
This country has a canal cut through it.
What is Panama?
The collective name for the islands of Cuba, Haiti, The Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico.
What is the Greater Antilles?
Brasilia
What is Brazil?
This country's name literally means "equator" because of its location.
San Salvador
What is El Salvador
This country means "rich coast" in Spanish.
What is Costa Rica?
This island in the Greater Antilles is a US territory.
What is Puerto Rico?
Lima
What is Peru?
All of the other South American countries could fit into this one with room to spare.
What is Brazil?
Belmopan
What is Belize?
This country is located on the Pacific coast, just below Mexico.
What is Guatemala?
This island is right below Florida.
What is Cuba?
Buenos Aires
What is Argentina?
This country is appropriately named because its shape resembles a red hot pepper.
What is Chile?
Managua
What is Nicaragua?
This country means "The Savior" in Spanish.
What is El Salvador?
The Virgin Islands are located here.
What is the Lesser Antilles?
Caracas
What is Venezuela?
This country, whose capital is Paramaribo, is nestled between the "Guyanas" on the northeast coast of the continent.
What is Suriname?
San Jose'
What is Costa Rica?
This country which borders Mexico has the smallest population in Central America.
What is Belize?
This country shares its island with the much larger nation of the Dominican Republic.
What is Haiti?
This country's recognized legal and judicial capital is Sucre' but the administrative capital is La Paz.
What is Bolivia
This country, named after the explorer who discovered the New World, is the largest producer of emeralds in the world.
What is Colombia?
Tegucigalpa
What is Honduras?