It's because of our languages especially spanish derived from latin and central america is also part of latin america
Latin America is called "Latin America" because the countries that comprise Latin America speak Spanish and Portuguese, which are descended from Latin.
The main official languages in the region - Spanish, Portuguese (and French) are derived from Latin.
The term "Latin America" was coined in the 1860s when the French Emperor Napoleon III was trying to extend French imperial control over Mexico. He and his ministers used the term to try to suggest at least some degree of cultural similarity throughout the region and with France.
Latin is the official language of the Roman Catholic Church. Latin America was colonized mostly by countries of "Latin Europe" (Spain, Portugal, France). The countries of Latin Europe were loyal to the Church in Rome. Latin America has also historically been predominately Roman Catholic.
The United States and Canada were traditionally Protestant countries having been colonized mostly by British.
Every coutry of South and Central America and Mexico are knowm like Latin America because they speak languages descendent of Latin 9the old language spoken in Roman Empire) like: Spanish, Portuguese and French, but neither every country of Latin America speaks languages that has been born from Latin, there's coutry that speaks English and Dutch.
"Sorry my English, I'm brazilian
Good question, English also has a lot of latin in its language too.
English due to it history of England is a mixture of Latin, Germanic, Scandinavian and French, but is known as a mostly Germanic language due to the invasion of the Germanic Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
England literally means 'land of Angles', it was called something like Engla-land hundreds of years ago, which meant Angle land.
These places are refered to as Latin America becuase in the 1400's to the 1700's. these areas were colonized prodominatly by spain. thus many of these countries now speak a version of spanish created from the language of the spanish conquisedors.
Because it can't be "hispanic" since that doesn't account for the Portuguese speakers. So it goes to the larger Latin culture. Just like English and Dutch belong to the Germanic culture.
I'm pretty sure Latin is an Italic language. I'm uncertain if they're both of any relevance to each other, I'm just curious as to why this is
