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Fun Facts About Spanish
- 400,000,000+ people speak Spanish as their first language!
- More than 20 countries has Spanish as their official language!
- 38 million people in the United States speak Spanish in their homes!
- Spanish is the most widely understood language of the entire Western Hemisphere!
- Spanish is the most popular second language learned by native speakers of American English.
- Many places in the US have Spanish names. San Francisco, Miami, Amarillo, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles, just to name a few.
- The richest man in the world from 2010 to 2013, Carlos Slim Helú, is from Mexico.
Iguazu Falls, Argentina // 269 feet high // 1.7 miles wide