My wife's family is from El Salvador, and when you send/get surface mail from there, it's marked something like:

address
km nn of nn address
city/municipality
El Salvador, CA <----

As if El Salvador is just a state and Central America is the country. It's the same for the surrounding countries (eg., Honduras, CA, Panama, CA, etc). It's weird, when you're down there everyone thinks of themselves as "Americans" but not "North Americans" and they refer to the USA as "The States" or "The US" but never "America".



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>Central America is not a continent, it's a region of North America.