and use the confusing redundent yet common phrase north america not refering to the continent either of two reasons a desire to place the united states last on the list by manipulating the names of regions to exploit the fair use of alphabetization to make the us hard to find simply an oversight well nobody replied so i renamed the section on territories and regions to u n subregions it's amazing that this list puts the united states last even though it has most of the people and of the area is someone trying to de emphasize america's importance no it's just in alphabetical order talk about any info in this article about the use of the term as if it meant exclusively canada and the united states yes in the 'human geography' section namely the rd paragraph other related terms are also treated in that sxn talk central americans are not north americans we are own people and we are not northerners we are seperate from them and are nothing like them you can try to correct me but the people who say that we are north americans are white folk who try to keep us down and sometimes other ignorant groups of people i will never surrender to being north american and nor should any other central american should ever buy into this i don't care what the white man tells us they're not us we should be able to decide for ourselves who we are and no else should tell us who to be this is just another way of bringing us down i am proud of being central american and being someone who inhabited this land long before the white people made contact with us if we have been living here for the longest time should it not be us who decides who we want to be tito a mart nez this is a lovely essay but unfortunately you cannot undeclare yourself a north american any more easily than you can underclare yourself an earthling central america happens to be located in north america so central americans are north americans it's a geographical thing not a cultural thing perhaps you're thinking of latin america and anglo america actually tito can undeclare himself if you'll check the spanish wikipedia articles on central america and north america you will see that spanish language defines north america's southern most country as mexico es norteam rica redirects to es am rica del norte which lists the lists the following political units in north to south order greenland canada united states mexico note that central america is not on this list wilyd is also right as far as english language goes north america includes mexico and central america i think america terminology should provide a better explanation than it currently does a section on english vs spanish terminology would help i don't speak spanish but i studied french in high school and can sometimes puzzle out the meaning maybe i'll recruit some bilingual wikipedians to help me write this okay but i'll claim the fatal flaw here is this am rica del norte is a spanish term that is different from the english term north america tito may not be a norteamericano although i don't think he declares himself here either doesn't spanish have an equivilent to l'academie but he's still north american actually i don't think north american is an identity that applies to latin americans his country if it's in central america is a part of the north american continent but the cultural division is what he's concerned about want to help me update america terminology i think america terminology reflects correct english usage maybe use of the word american is a better place to move these kind of complaints although i'm actively involved in that article and know it'll get shot down as original research roughly speaking there aren't political continents wikipedia has articles on anglo america not that i'm convinced the term exists in contrast