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Middle America
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region in the mid-latitudes of the Americas, consisting of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean islands, Colombia, Venezuela, and the Guyanas ; same as the Caribbean, extended to the Pacific coast
Key facts
- Area
- 2,728,827 km (1,053,606 sq mi)
- Population 2022
- 224,017,764
- Countries
- 21 Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago
- Gdp
- $1.416 229 trillion, ( PPP , 2005 est.)
- Major languages
- Spanish , English , French , Mayan , Nahuatl , Antillean Creole , Haitian Creole , and others
- Time zones
- UTC−04:00 ( Barbados ) to, UTC−08:00 ( Baja California )
- Largest cities
- 10 largest cities in Middle America (2015) Mexico City Havana Ecatepec de Morelos Guadalajara Puebla Juárez León Tijuana Tegucigalpa Zapopan
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Americas
- Has part
- Caribbean South America
- Continent
- Americas
- Location
- Americas
Show 3 more facts
- located in/on physical feature
- Northern Hemisphere
- topic's main category
- Category:Middle America (Americas)
- different from
- Latin America
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Encyclopedic overview
Middle America is a subregion in the Northern Hemisphere tropics of the Americas. It usually includes Mexico, the seven countries of Central America, and the 13 island countries and 18 territories of the Caribbean. Together with Northern America, they form the continent of North America.
Colombia and Venezuela of Caribbean South America are sometimes included in this subregion. The Caribbean is occasionally excluded from this subregion while The Guianas are infrequently included.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Middle America” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.