Carro? Auto? Coche?
One of its unique characteristics about the Spanish language is that they have so many different words that they use to mean the same thing in different countries.
“swimming pool”
| Spain | piscina |
| Latin America | |
| Bolivia | pileta |
| Chile | |
| Paraguay | |
| Argentina | |
| Uruguay | |
| Mexico | alberca |
“jacket”
| Spain | cazadora |
chaqueta |
| Latin America | chamarra | |
| El Salvador | chumpa | |
| Bolivia | campera | |
| Chile | ||
| Paraguay | ||
| Argentina | ||
| Uruguay |
It sounds very strange to see “cazadora” as a word for”jacket” since it usually means “a female hunter”
“sidewalk”
| Spain |
acera | |
| South America | vereda | |
| Central America | vereda | |
| Caribbean | andén | |
| Mexico | banqueta | |
| Guatemala | ||
| Philippines |
andén mainly means “platform” and not used as sidewalk in other countries.
“car”
| Spain | coche | buga (old fashion) |
| Latin America | carro | |
| Bolivia |
auto | |
| Chile | ||
| Paraguay | ||
| Argentina | ||
| Uruguay | ||
interestingly, people who use “coche” as a car use “carro” as a stroller, and people who use “carro” as a car use “coche” to mean a stroller.
“bean”
| Colombia | fríjol | |
| Puerto Rico | habichuela | |
| Dominican Republic |
vainita | |
| Venezuela | caraota | |
| Peru | frejol | |
| Ecuador | ||
| Bolivia |
poroto | |
| Chile | ||
| Paraguay | chaucha | |
| Argentina | ||
| Uruguay | ||
| Spain | alubia | judía |
| Galicia (Northern Spain) | faba | |
As you can see, there are so many similarities among Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay and I believe it is because they are very close geographically and assumably they have a lot of cultural connections.