Martin Owens wrote: > Well done guys! > > I love hearing about all the awesome work going on. Funny enough I was > editing all the central american countries together in inkscape today, > Mexico is a part of central america right? what about cuba? >
Cuba is part of the Caribbean. Mexico, well... Wikipedia[1] says it best: "In English speaking countries, Central America is considered a region of the North American continent <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent>.^[58] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America#cite_note-57> (!) Geopolitically, it usually comprises seven countries – Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.^[59] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America#cite_note-Central_America-Britannica-58> Mexico <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico>, in whole or in part, is sometimes included.^[60] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America#cite_note-59> Some geographers include the five states <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_divisions_of_Mexico> of Campeche <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campeche>, Chiapas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiapas>, Tabasco <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabasco>, Quintana Roo <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintana_Roo>, and Yucatán <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucat%C3%A1n>,^[59] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America#cite_note-Central_America-Britannica-58> together representing 12.1% of the country's total area." Cheers, Fabian [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts