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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country in the Caribbean. It comprises the eponymous main island as well as 4,195 islands, islets, and cays. Situated at the convergence of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean, Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula, south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola, and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and Dominican Republic, with about 10 million inhabitants. It is the largest country in the C
Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic is a country on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared by two sovereign states. In the Antilles, the country is the second-largest nation by area after Cuba at 48,671 square kilometers (18,792 sq mi) and second-largest by population after Haiti with approximately 11.4 million people in 2024, of whom 3.6 million reside in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city.
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth. It is located between the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Lesser Antilles. Located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, it consists of the eponymous main island and numerous smaller islands, including Vieques, Culebra, and Mona. With approximately 3.2 million people, it is divided into 78 municipalities, of which the most populous is the capital municipality of San Juan, followed by those within the San Juan metropolitan area. Spanish and English are the official languages of the government, though Spanish predominates.
New Spain
viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire (1535-1821)
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
16th-century Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica
Spanish East Indies
Spanish territory in Asia-Pacific from 1565 until 1901
Manila galleon
Royal Spanish trading ships, 1565–1815
Spanish Florida
former Spanish possession in North America (1513–1763, 1783–1821)
Adams–Onís Treaty
Treaty between the United States and Spain, ceding Florida to the U.S. (1819)
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
northernmost of Mexico City‘s four "royal roads"
National Palace
Seat of the Executive branch of the Mexican Federal Government in Mexico City
Queen Anne's War
North American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession
Alta California
former province of New Spain and Mexico
West Florida
region
Spanish West Indies
Spanish possession in the Caribbean between 1492-1898
Spanish Formosa
Spanish colony from 1626 to 1642
Treaty of San Ildefonso
treaty between France and Spain involving the colonial territory of Louisiana
piracy in the Caribbean
piracy in the Caribbean region from the 1500s to the 1830s
Quivira and Cíbola
North American myth popular among 16th-century conquistadors
Louisiana
province of New Spain
The Californias
Region of western North America
Council of the Indies
administrative organ of the Spanish Empire
Nueva Galicia
province & indendancy in New Spain, Spain
Captaincy General of Cuba
Spanish 1607–1898 possession in the Caribbean
cabildo
Spanish colonial, and early post-colonial, administrative council which governed a municipality
Spanish Texas
province of New Spain
Santa Fe de Nuevo México
province of New Spain (1598-1821), territory of Mexico (1821-1846), provisional government of the USA (1846-1850)
Nueva Vizcaya
former province in New Spain
Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire
document proclaiming Mexican independence from Spain, ratified 28 September 1821
Nuevo Santander
Region of New Spain
El Camino Real
historic commemorative route in California
Portolà expedition
exploration of the present-day state of California, United States, 1769–1770
Buenaventura River
fictional river
The Cabildo
historic building in New Orleans, Louisiana
Laws of the Indies
entire body of laws issued by the Spanish Crown for the American and the Philippine possessions of its empire
New Kingdom of León
territory of Spain (1582-1821) in Mexico, roughly corresponding in area to modern Nuevo León
New Navarre
province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain
Nueva Extremadura
Former province of New Spain
New Spanish Baroque
Baroque art in the Viceroyalty of New Spain
Royal Audience of Manila
Spanish Empire entity
soldado de cuera
type of mounted soldier who served in the various presidios of New Spain
El Santuario de Chimayo
church building in New Mexico, United States of America
Jesuit missions in North America
House of the First Print Shop in the Americas
building in Mexico City, Mexico
Spanish colonial real
Spanish colonial coinage
Kingdom of Mexico
former territorial entity of the Spanish Empire
Royal Audiencia of Guadalajara
tribunal of the Spanish Crown
Palace of the Inquisition
historic building in Mexico City
Royal Audiencia of Mexico
highest tribunal of the Spanish crown in the Kingdom of New Spain