The core area where Latin was spoken was the town of Rome, then the region of Latium. With the expansion of the Roman empire, it was spoken in all of Italy, then in Iberia, Gaul, the Alps and southern Britain. In the East Roman empire, it had the status of a second language.
The Latin speaking area comprises the European regions occupied by Romance languages, and furthermore many areas that the Romans lost when their empire dissolved: Britannia, Germania, Thracia, Moesia, Pannonia, north Africa.