>Just a phrase, something to lump all those countries between Mexico and South America mainland, but it's definitely not a continent. It's a region spanning the tips of the two Americas.
In school in Argentina long, long time ago we studied America as 3 continents, North America (Canada, US, Mexico), Central America (South of Mexico to Panama + the Caribbean Islands IIRC) and South America.
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