Would you consdier Mexico to be in North America or Central America, or seperate altogether??
Academically, Mexico is considered part of Middle America, so I'll go with that standard.
The definitions are murky. --Middle America is usually considered to be the southern part of North America.--Middle America is usually considered to contain both Mexico and Central America. --Central America is usually considered to be the nations located between Mexico and Columbia.--Geopolitically, Mexico is generally not considered part of Central America.--Mexico is part of Latin America.
Wikipedia: MexicoThe geography of Mexico entails the physical and human geography of Mexico, a country situated in the Americas. Comprising much of southern North America or of Middle America, Mexico is bounded to the north by the United States (specifically, from west to east, by California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas), to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, to the east by the Gulf of Mexico, and to the southeast by Belize, Guatemala, and the Caribbean Sea. The northernmost constituent of Latin America, it is the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world.Almost all of Mexico is on the North American Plate, with parts of the Baja California Peninsula in the northwest on the Pacific and Cocos Plates. Some geographers include the portion east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec including the Yucatan Peninsula within North America. This portion includes the five states of Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco, Quintana Roo, and Yucat?n, representing 12.1% of the country's total area. Alternatively, the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt may be said to delimit the region physiographically on the north. Geopolitically, Mexico is generally not considered part of Central America.[Emphasis mine.]Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Central America Southern portion of North America (pop., 2006 est.: 40,338,000). It extends from the southern border of Mexico to the northwestern border of Colombia and from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea. It includes Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Some geographers also include five states of Mexico: Quintana Roo, Yucat?n, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas.[Emphasis mine.]Encarta: Central AmericaCentral America, region of the western hemisphere, made up of a long, tapering isthmus that forms a bridge between North and South America. Central America, which is defined by geographers as part of North America, has an area of about 521,500 sq km (about 201,300 sq mi) and includes the countries of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. The region has a population of approximately 36.4 million (2000 estimate).[Emphasis mine.]Wikipedia: Latin AmericaIn most common contemporary usage, Latin America refers only to those territories in the Americas where the Spanish or Portuguese languages prevail: Mexico, most of Central and South America, plus Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. Often, particularly in the United States, the term may be used to refer to all of the Americas south of the U.S., including such countries as Belize, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Dominica, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Bahamas, in all of which English prevails.[Emphasis mine.]
