I realize that there are large Spanish speaking countries, namely Mexico and Argentina. But, for instance, why are the smaller Central American countries not part of Mexico?
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>Why did Spanish speaking areas of the New World fragment into so many countries
Because to be a single country they’d need to be either a single ethnic group, or at least multiple ethnic groups agreeing on a set of laws to be governed by the same government.
>while English and Portuguese speaking areas formed large countries?
And that’s before we get into your premise being completely wrong anyway.
What large countries are you thinking of when you say that? Brasil and USA specifically?
Cause the rest of it is carved up to all hell, all the African, Asian, and Pacific Island colonies are all kinds of jumbled up. Colonialism did some serious shenanigans across all 3, but no “large” countries of colonial descent really exist in those regions, not to the USA equivalent degree anyway.
China and Russia are the ones on Eurasia, but obviously neither has anything to do with English or Portuguese.
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