Latin Americans (, ) are the
citizens of the
Latin American countries and dependencies. Latin American countries are
multi-ethnic, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. As a result, some Latin Americans don't take their nationality as an
ethnicity, but identify themselves with both their
nationality and their ancestral origins. Aside from the indigenous
Amerindian (aka Native American) population, all Latin Americans or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries. Latin America has the largest diasporas of
Spaniards,
Portuguese,
Black Africans,
Italians,
Japanese and
Lebanese in the world. The region also has large
German,
French and
Chinese diasporas.