Central America
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Central America
- Subcontinent with 180,000,000 residents
- Description: subregion of the Americas
- Neighbors: South America
- Category: cultural region
- Location: North America
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Latitude of center
12.73° or 12° 43′ 48″ north
Longitude of center
-85.3° or 85° 18′ west
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Central America” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Amirika Teungoh”
- Achinese: “Amirika Teungöh”
- Afrikaans: “Sentraal-Amerika”
- Albanian: “Amerika Qendrore”
- Amharic: “መካከለኛ አሜሪካ”
- Arabic: “أمريكا الوسطى”
- Aragonese: “America Central”
- Armenian: “Կենտրոնական Ամերիկա”
- Arpitan: “Amèrica centrâla”
- Asturian: “América Central”
- Azerbaijani: “Mərkəzi Amerika”
- Balinese: “Amérika Tengah”
- Bambara: “Cema Amerika”
- Bashkir: “Үҙәк Америка”
- Basque: “Erdialdeko Amerika”
- Batak Toba: “Amerika Tonga”
- Belarusian: “Цэнтральная Амерыка”
- Belarusian: “Цэнтральная Амэрыка”
- Bengali: “মধ্য আমেরিকা”
- Bhojpuri: “मध्य अमेरिका”
- Bislama: “Sentrol Amerika”
- Breton: “Kreizamerika”
- Bulgarian: “Централна Америка”
- Burmese: “ဗဟိုအမေရိက”
- Catalan: “Amèrica Central”
- Cebuano: “Amerika Sentral”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەمریکای ناوەندی”
- Chavacano: “Centroamerica”
- Chinese: “中美洲”
- Chuvash: “Вăта Америка”
- Cornish: “Amerika Gres”
- Croatian: “Srednja Amerika”
- Czech: “Amerika”
- Czech: “Střední Amerika”
- Danish: “Mellemamerika”
- Dimli (individual language): “Amerika Miyanên”
- Dimli (individual language): “Amerika Miyanêne”
- Dutch: “Centraal-Amerika”
- Egyptian Arabic: “امريكا الوسطانيه”
- Egyptian Arabic: “امريكا الوسطى”
- Esperanto: “Centr-Ameriko”
- Esperanto: “Centra Ameriko”
- Esperanto: “Centrameriko”
- Estonian: “Kesk-Ameerika”
- Faroese: “Miðamerika”
- Finnish: “Keski-Amerikka”
- French: “Amérique centrale”
- Friulian: “Americhe centrâl”
- Galician: “América Central”
- Georgian: “ცენტრალური ამერიკა”
- German: “Mittelamerika”
- German: “Zentralamerika”
- Gilaki: “مرکزي آمريکا”
- Greek: “Κεντρική Αμερική”
- Guarani: “Mbyte Amérika”
- Guarani: “Mbyteamérika”
- Guianese Creole French: “Lanmérik santral”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chûng Mî-chû”
- Hebrew: “אמריקה המרכזית”
- Hindi: “केंद्रीय अमेरिका”
- Hindi: “मध्य अमेरिका”
- Hungarian: “Közép-Amerika”
- Icelandic: “Mið-Ameríka”
- Ido: “Central Amerika”
- Ido: “Central-Amerika”
- Iloko: “Tengnga nga Amerika”
- Inari Sami: “Koskâ-Amerik”
- Inari Sami: “Kuovdâ-Amerik”
- Indonesian: “Amerika Tengah”
- Ingush: “Юкъера Америка”
- Interlingua: “America Central”
- Irish: “Meiriceá Láir”
- Italian: “America centrale”
- Italian: “America Centrale”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Senchral Amoerka”
- Japanese: “中央アメリカ”
- Japanese: “中米”
- Javanese: “Amerika Tengah”
- Javanese: “Amérika Tengah”
- Javanese: “Amérikah Tengah”
- Jèrriais: “Améthique Centrale”
- Kabyle: “Tamrikt Talemmast”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Amirika Hongkod”
- Kalaallisut: “Amerika Qilerleq”
- Kannada: “ಮಧ್ಯ ಅಮೇರಿಕ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Orayliq Amerika”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Oraylıq Amerika”
- Kazakh: “Орталық Америка”
- Khmer: “អាមេរិក កណ្ដាល”
- Khmer: “អាមេរិកកណ្ដាល”
- Kinaray-A: “Kaamerikhan Natung·an”
- Kinaray-A: “Natung·an nga Kaamerikhan”
- Kirghiz: “Борбордук Америка”
- Kongo: “Amelika ya Kati”
- Korean: “중미”
- Korean: “중앙아메리카”
- Kotava: “Istefa Amerika”
- Kurdish: “Amerîkaya Navîn”
- Ladin: “America zentrela”
- Lao: “ອາເມລິກາກາງ”
- Latin: “America Centralis”
- Latin: “Media America”
- Latvian: “Centrālamerika”
- Ligurian: “Stati de l’America do Nòrd e Çentrâ”
- Limburgan: “Midde-Amerika”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “America Sentral”
- Lithuanian: “Centrinė Amerika”
- Lower Sorbian: “Srjejźna Amerika”
- Luxembourgish: “Zentralamerika”
- Macedonian: “Средна Америка”
- Malagasy: “Amerika Afovoany”
- Malay: “Amerika Tengah”
- Malayalam: “മദ്ധ്യ അമേരിക്ക (സെൻട്രൽ അമേരിക്ക)”
- Malayalam: “മദ്ധ്യ അമേരിക്ക”
- Manx: “America Veanagh”
- Marathi: “मध्य अमेरिका”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Dṳ̆ng Mī-ciŭ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tiong Bí-chiu”
- Minangkabau: “Amerika Tangah”
- Mingrelian: “ცენტრალური ამერიკა”
- Mongolian: “Төв Америк”
- Neapolitan: “Amèreca cèntrale”
- Nepali: “केन्द्रीय अमेरिका”
- Northern Sami: “Gaska-Amerihkká”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mellom-Amerika”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sentral-Amerika”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mellom-Amerika”
- Norwegian: “Mellom-Amerika”
- Occitan (post 1500): “America Centrala”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Middelamerica”
- Oromo: “Ameerikaa Giddu Galeessaa”
- Ossetian: “Центрон Америкæ”
- Pampanga: “Kalibudtang America”
- Pampanga: “Kalibudtang Amerika”
- Panjabi: “ਕੇਂਦਰੀ ਅਮਰੀਕਾ”
- Papiamento: “Amérika Sentral”
- Persian: “آمریکای مرکزی”
- Picard: “Anmérike chintrale”
- Piemontese: “América central”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Sentril Merika”
- Polish: “Ameryka Centralna”
- Polish: “Ameryka Środkowa”
- Portuguese: “América Central”
- Quechua: “Chawpi Awya Yala”
- Romanian: “America Centrală”
- Russian: “Центральная Америка”
- Rusyn: “Середня Америка”
- Samoan: “Central Amelika”
- Samogitian: “Cėntrėnė Amerėka”
- Santali: “ᱛᱟᱞᱢᱟ ᱟᱢᱮᱨᱤᱠᱟ”
- Sardinian: “Amèrica Tzentrale”
- Scots: “Central Americae”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Aimearaga Mheadhanach”
- Serbian: “Средња Америка”
- Serbian: “Централна Америка”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Centralna Amerika”
- Sicilian: “Amèrica cintrali”
- Silesian: “Cyntralnŏ Ameryka”
- Sindhi: “وچ آمريڪا”
- Sinhala: “මධ්යම ඇමරිකාව”
- Skolt Sami: “Kõskk-Amerikk”
- Slovak: “Stredná Amerika”
- Slovenian: “Medmorska Amerika”
- Somali: “Bartamaha Ameerika”
- South Azerbaijani: “اورتا آمریکا”
- Spanish: “America Central”
- Spanish: “América Central”
- Spanish: “America del Centro”
- Spanish: “América del Centro”
- Spanish: “Centroamérica y el Caribe”
- Spanish: “Centroamerica”
- Spanish: “Centroamérica”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵎⵔⵉⴽⵜ ⵜⴰⵏⴰⵎⵎⴰⵙⵜ”
- Swedish: “Centralamerika”
- Tagalog: “Gitnang Amerika”
- Tajik: “Амрикои Марказӣ”
- Tamil: “நடு அமெரிக்கா”
- Tatar: “Үзәк Америка”
- Telugu: “మధ్య అమెరికా”
- Thai: “อเมริกากลาง”
- Tok Pisin: “Sentrel Amerika”
- Turkish: “Orta Amerika”
- Tyap: “Amerika A̱ka̱wa̱tyia̱”
- Udmurt: “Шор Америка”
- Uighur: “ئوتتۇرا ئامېرىكا”
- Ukrainian: “Центральна Америка”
- Upper Sorbian: “Srjedźna Amerika”
- Urdu: “وسطی امریکا”
- Urdu: “وسطی امریکہ”
- Uzbek: “Markaziy Amerika”
- Venetian: “amèrica sentrałe”
- Venetian: “Amèrica Sentrałe”
- Vietnamese: “Trung Mĩ”
- Vietnamese: “Trung Mỹ”
- Vlaams: “Centroal-Amerika”
- Volapük: “Zänoda-Merop”
- Võro: “Kesk-Ameeriga”
- Walloon: “Mîtrinne Amerike”
- Waray (Philippines): “Butnga nga Amerika”
- Welsh: “Canolbarth America”
- Western Frisian: “Sintraal-Amearika”
- Western Panjabi: “گبھلا امریکا”
- Western Panjabi: “وسطی امریکا”
- Wolof: “Diggu Aamerig”
- Wu Chinese: “中美洲”
- Yakut: “Орто Америка”
- Yiddish: “צענטראל-אמעריקע”
- Yiddish: “צענטראל־אמעריקע”
- Yoruba: “Àrin Amẹ́ríkà”
- Yue Chinese: “中美洲”
- Zeeuws: “Centraol-Amerika”
- Zulu: “IMelika Wenkaba”
- “ma Amelika insa”
North America: Highlights
Notable places include United States and Canada.
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