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Central Americae

Central Americae
Cairt o Central Americae
Aurie523,780 km2
(202,233 sq mi)[1]
Population41,739,000 (2009 est.)[1]
Density77/km2 (200/sq mi)
Kintras7
DemonymCentral American, American
GDP$107.7 billion (exchynge rate) (2006)
$ 226.3 billion (purchasin pouer parity) (2006).
GDP per capita$2,541 (exchynge rate) (2006)
$5,339 (purchasin pouer parity) (2006).
LeidsSpainyie, Inglis, Mayan leids, Garifuna,
Kriol, European leids, an mony ithers
Time ZonesUTC - 6:00, UTC - 5:00
Lairgest ceeties (2002)Guatemala Ceety
San Salvador
Tegucigalpa
Managua
San Pedro Sula
Panama Ceety
San José, Costa Rica
Santa Ana, El Salvador
León
San Miguel[2]

Central Americae (Spaingie: América Central or Centroamérica) is the central geografic region o the Americas. It is the soothrenmaist, isthmian portion o the Central American continent, which connects wi Sooth Americae on the sootheast.[3][4] When considered pairt o the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent. Central Americae consists o seven kintras: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, an Panama. Central Americae is pairt o the Mesoamerican biodiversity hetspot, which extends frae northren Guatemala through central Panama.[5] It is bordered bi Mexico tae the north, the Caribbean Sea tae the east, the North Paceefic Ocean tae the wast, an Colombie tae the sooth-east.

Central Americae is an aurie o 524,000 square kilometer (202,000 sq mi), or almaist 0.1% o the Yird's surface. As o 2009, its population wis estimatit at 41,739,000. It haes a density o 77 fowk per square kilometer.

  1. ↑ a b Areas and population estimates taken from the 2008 CIA World Factbook, whose population estimates are as of July 2007.
  2. ↑ Largest Cities in Central America, Rhett Butler. Accessed on line January 10, 2008.
  3. ↑ Central America Archived 2009-10-28 at the Wayback Machine, MSN Encarta. Accessed on line January 10, 2008. 2009-10-31.
  4. ↑ "Central America", vol. 3, Micropædia, The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1990, 15th ed. ISBN 0-85229-511-1.
  5. ↑ Mesoamerica, Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation International. Accessed on line January 10, 2008.

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