Claim: Central America contains the United States.
Evidence: Central America consists of seven countries : Belize , Costa Rica , El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras , Nicaragua , and Panama.
Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico.
The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America , bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west.
The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean.