The term most often used interchangeably with "Hispanic" is "Latino." Both terms are used to describe people with origins in Spanish-speaking countries, but there are distinctions: "Hispanic" refers to people with Spanish language roots, including Spain itself, while "Latino" generally refers to people from Latin America regardless of language (which can include Portuguese-speaking Brazilians). In the U.S., these terms are often interchangeable, especially in official contexts like the Census, but they have different cultural and geographic connotations.