Does Mexico belong to North America or Central America? How about Greenland? N. America?
541993
Politically and geographically, Mexico has always been considered part of North America (it was not a member of the United States of Central America that existed just to the south of it and is part of the North American Free Trade Agreement and not the pending Central American Free Trade Agreement).  Greenland, though owned by a European nation, is geographically considered North American.
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The full name of the country is The United States of America. \n\n"America" is  a shortened version of the full name. \n\nTrust me on this one, most Americans are well aware that the Continent of North America also includes Canada and Mexico!!\n\nIt is simply a shortened version of our country's name. We also refer to our country as the USA.\n\nPlease, please, please, can everybody just get over this for once and for all, and find something more important to take umbrage about?
256505
Iceland is part of Europe, but Greenland is not a continent, just FYI on that. It's part of North America.
369848
No.  After the Mexican-American war Mexico ceded most of the land that makes up New Mexico to the United States.  The rest of the territory was purchased from Mexico (the Gadsden Purchase) around 1853.  The land remained a U.S. territory until New Mexico became a state.\n\nBTW, I think Billy the Kid was from New York originally anyway, so for him it's a moot point.
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The United Mexican States or Mexico (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or México; regarding the use of the variant spelling Méjico, see section The name below) is a country located in North America, bordered by the United States to the north, and Belize and Guatemala to the southeast. It is the northernmost and westernmost country in Latin America, and also the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world. Mexico is considered the most advanced country in Latin America.[citation needed]\n\nThe country is often referred to by Mexicans as the Mexican Republic (Spanish: Republica Mexicana) although this is not the officially recognised title. The term State of Mexico (Spanish: Estado de Mexico) does not refer to the country, but only to one state within Mexico, located near the centre of the country adjacent to the Federal District.\n\nOn September 16, 1810, independence from Spain was declared by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest in the small town of Dolores, causing a long war that eventually led to the official recognition of independence from Spain in 1821 and the creation of the First Mexican Empire. Actually, Hidalgo declared the independence from France, as José Bonaparte (Napoleon's brother), also known in Mexico as Pepe Botella (Spanish: Bottle Joe, as he had a fame of a heavy drinker), was ruling Spain at that time. The initial intention of the movement, then, was to obtain independence from France while still remaining part of Spain. As the war escalated, however, the objective changed to independence from Spain.\n\nAfter independence, Spanish possessions in Central America which also proclaimed independence were all incorporated into Mexico from 1822 to 1823, with the exception of Chiapas.\n\nSoon after achieving its independence from Spain, the Mexican government, in an effort to populate its sparsely-settled hinterlands, awarded land grants in a remote area of the northernmost state of Coahuila y Tejas to hundreds of immigrant families from the United States, on the condition that the settlers convert to Catholicism and assume Mexican citizenship. It also forbade the importation of slaves, a condition that, like the others, was largely ignored.\n\nIn the 1860s, the country again suffered a military occupation, this time by France, seeking to establish the Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria as Emperor of Mexico, with support from the Roman Catholic clergy and conservative elemens of the upper class as well as some indigenous communities. The Second Mexican Empire was then overthrown by President Benito Juárez, with diplomatic and logistical support from the United States and the military expertise of General Porfirio Díaz. General Ignacio Zaragoza defeated the French Army (arguably the most powerful in the world at the time) at the city of Puebla on May 5, 1862, celebrated as Cinco de Mayo ever since. However, after his death, the city was lost in early 1863, following a renewed French attack which penetrated as far as Mexico City, forcing Juárez to organize an itinerant government.\n\n \nBenito Juarez, important figure of Mexican historyNapoleon III of France, Emperor of France, returned Maximillian as Emperor of Mexico from 1864 to 1867. In mid-1867, following repeated losses in battle to the Republican Army, Maximilian was captured and executed by Juárez's soldiers, along with his last loyal generals,Mejia and Miramon in Querétaro. From then on, Juárez remained in office until his death from heart failure in 1872.\n\nAfter Juárez's death, Mexico experienced economic growth under the liberal and pro-European rule of Porfirio Díaz. Foreign investment allowed the development of the oil industry and the construction of a railroad system across the country. This period of relative peace and prosperity is known as the "Porfiriato". His mandate, however, was mostly undemocratic and benefited the middle and upper classes, while the Amerindian indigenous pop
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Historically, a large part of what is now the US belonged to Mexico. There's a great "morphing" map of the US/Mexico border and how it has changed over the years at this site. Click on the link at the bottom of the page to see that their claims are far from ridiculous.
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Central America is not a continent.  It is part of North America.
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Don't be silly silly person.  Mexico never owned it to began with. Just how dam old do you think mexico is. the entire place was a spainish colony(rememeber your language ? spainish? or do you think the gods spoke spainish when they made you?
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in northamerica its mexico and in south its brazil
9058
North America includes (from North to South) Canada, the US, Mexico, and the countries of Central America (which is not its own continent, nor is it part of South America).\n\nSo, Panama is technically the southernmost country in North America.
556175
No, revolutions only bring mayhem and ruin. How about getting rid of Mexico by uniting it with Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and (just for the hell of it) Arizona. It could be called Mexsaldurna! New Mexico could just be Mexico. While we're at it, why not divide North Dakota into Northern Dakota, Northernmost Dakota and The Useless Patch of Land between Northernmost Dakota and Canada. And get rid of upper Michigan. Give it to Canada so we could take that New Brunswick. Next, divide the Carolinas into 23 states, each named Carolina, with minor spelling changes. Also, while I have your attention, we should erase Rhode Island. I don't mean annex it to Massachusetts, I mean erase it. Take a pencil to it, and make a big white space with nothing in it. And do something about Colorado and Wyoming! They look exactly alike in maps, and a square is such a boring shape. Make Wyoming into a triangle, and Colorado into a complex myriagon. Then unify Kansas and Nebraska to form Kanraska, and only let stupid white corn-huskers live there. And, if I could venture out of America for a sec, lets do away with all of these Soviet countries. There are fifteen, but their all so useless, why not make them into four? Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan? Who needs em? Moldova? Make that, new Romania! Now... what were we talking about?
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The same reason that citizens of Mexico call it "Mexico" when it is actually "Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos" The United States of Mexico. So therefore The United States of America is "America". I dont want to say the whole thing all the time, it is too much. I am against people living in a pro-American, anti-anything else bubble, but I dont think that is the reason behind THIS!
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no se....\n\nviva mexico!
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I think it's part of N. America, but it belongs to Denmark politically.  I think it's about the size of Mexico.
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Please...is this even a question?  YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  How Mexico?  Why Mexico?
1040367
I disagree.  Canada & Mexico have always worked together independent of the US and with the US.  We're living in a globalizing world where no nations should be excluded.  The world should "come together" & not divide.
198340
You are right.\nall of them are Americans.\n\nIt has been so accepted to say it like it is today, that when ever someone like yourself raises the question, a lot of people go... mmm you are right!\nwhy is that?\n\nMaybe when all of citizens of the other countries really want them to be known as americans as well will media take that into consideration.\n\nanother mistake also:\nMexico is not Central or South America.\n\nMexico is with Canada and the USA NORTH AMERICA.\n\nHope is useful.