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Overview map of EU Countries - NUTS level 1. ESPANA - NUTS level 2 [permanent dead link ] ESPANA - NUTS level 3 [permanent dead link ] Correspondence between the NUTS levels and the national administrative units; List of current NUTS codes. Download current NUTS codes (ODS format) Provinces of Spain, Statoids.com
Ñ-shaped animation showing flags of some countries and territories where Spanish is spoken. Spanish is the official language (either by law or de facto) in 20 sovereign states (including Equatorial Guinea, where it is official but not a native language), one dependent territory, and one partially recognized state, totaling around 442 million people.
Mantecado is a name for a variety of Spanish shortbreads that includes the polvorón.The names are often synonymous, but not all mantecados are polvorones.The name mantecado comes from manteca (), usually the fat of Iberian pig (cerdo ibérico), with which they are made, while the name polvorón is based on the fact that these cakes crumble easily into a kind of dust in the hand or the mouth.
Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. Countries are listed alphabetically by their most common name in English. Each English name is followed by its most common equivalents in other languages, listed in English alphabetical order (ignoring accents) by name and by language.
The Spanish and Portuguese termination -o usually denotes the masculine, and is normally changed to feminine by dropping the -o and adding -a. The plural forms are usually -os and -as respectively. Adjectives ending in -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. "the English", "the Cornish").
It shows how Spanish is different in three continents where there are Spanish-speaking countries (Europe, North America, and South America) and in different regions of those continents (Central America, Caribbean, and Southern Cone). Italian and Brazilian Portuguese have also been influential in Uruguayan Spanish and are also included.
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In other Spanish-speaking countries, similar games add other syllables instead of p+vowel. There are variants that use f instead of p ; this is the case, for example, in Italian , where the game is called alfabeto farfallino , meaning "butterfly alphabet", because many modified words sound like farfalla (i.e., "butterfly").