Countries in America: 35 countries with native names and ISO codes

Spanish, English and the other languages of the Americas

• MéxicoMexico Latin
• BrasilBrazil Latin
• ParaguáiParaguay Latin
• AyitiHaiti Latin

Every name in this table is written in Latin letters. Spanish gives 18 of the 37 native forms and English 14, a large share because most Caribbean island states, Belize and Guyana use it. Brazil is the one Portuguese row and Suriname the one Dutch row.

Only two countries in America carry a second form. Haiti is Haïti in French and Ayiti in Haitian Creole, its two official languages, and Paraguay adds the Guarani spelling Paraguái to the Spanish name. Elsewhere a country's own name and its English one usually agree: 29 of the 35 rows are spelt the same in both, and the rest differ by an accent or a word, as in México, Perú and República Dominicana.

North America has three countries here, Canada, the United States and Mexico. Central America and the Caribbean have 20, from Antigua and Barbuda to Trinidad and Tobago, and South America has 12.