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« on: May 09, 2021, 02:14:46 AM » |
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Culturally Mexico is more similar to the countries to its south than to the US, even though the differences are still large and often underestimated, as DFB points out.
Conventionally, where North America and Central America are defined exclusively, Mexico is virtually always grouped with North rather than Central America. There are various Central American cooperation organizations and none include Mexico as a full member (and it's not like membership is that exclusive, since the Dominican Republic sometimes is included), only ever as an observer.
Geologically, virtually all of Mexico is on the North American Plate while most of the land immediately to its south is on the Caribbean Plate; its southern border is actually quite a logical place for a country to end.
This isn't the sort of thing that has an absolute answer but it seems like pretty much any definition has Mexico as part of North America rather than Central America.
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