File talk:Spanish speakers in the Americas (orthographic projection).svg

Spanish speakers in the United States and Canada

As for the United States and Canada, I'm pretty sure that this map doesn't reflect the number of Spanish speakers there, but the number of Hispanics and Latinos. Could someone revise this map? --Ora Unu (留言) 15:27, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Camera location

It's my impression that the camera location is too far to the North. There is an unnecessary focus on Canada and the US, while most Spanish speakers of the Americas live further South. The countries of the Southern Cone are almost out of sight. It would be great if the map was centred like this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hispanic_America_(orthographic_projection).svg while keeping the additional (very informative) data of this map on the Spanish speakers on non-hispanic majority countries. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 190.64.68.218 (talk) 17:40, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Incorrect coloring

The US States of Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Kansas are colored incorrectly. Infinite mission (留言) 21:16, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Inaccurate and dubious

A lot of the figures presented in the map seem to be wildly inflated and not verifiable, even when comparing against the most generous published statistics. If we assume this is a map of people who can speak any amount of Spanish (rather than native speakers): Trinidad and Tobago should be 5%, not 10.98% (according to Instituto Cervantes); Belize should be 50.9% (total population) or 56.6% (population 4 and older), not 73.7% (according to their census); Morocco should be 10%, not 17% (according to Instituto Cervantes). A lot of the other territories don't even have published statistics about total number of Spanish speakers (e.g. Jamaica, Haiti), only total number of native speakers, and those numbers are miniscule. I also couldn't find any sources to back up the numbers for U.S. states, only numbers for native speakers, which are much smaller. Most of the sources linked to in the description don't even match the numbers used here. Nosferattus (留言) 15:31, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

I went ahead and corrected the number for Belize, since that is a case where the number is known for certain. (It's one of the few censuses that tallies language by ability to have a conversation rather than native language.) Nosferattus (留言) 15:35, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

See also concerns raised at en:Portal talk:Latin America#Map "Spanish speakers in the Americas". Nosferattus (留言) 18:57, 12 October 2021 (UTC)