Central America, a name applied to that part of the American continent which lies between the isthmuses of Tehuantepec and Panama, but by some extended to embrace Mexico. It includes the republics of Guatemala, Honduras, San Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica; Belize; a small part of the Colombian state of Panama; and the Mexican state of Chiapa and peninsula of Yucatan. See under separate articles; also AMERICA.
Central America
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 64–65
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