Some basic map geography of Latin America. Continents: N. America, S. America, Australia, Africa,...

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Some basic map geography of Latin America

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Some basic map geography of Latin

America

Continents: N. America, S. America, Australia, Africa, Eurasia, Antarctica

CANADA

UNITED STATES

MIDDLE AMERICA

Middle America

• Mexico + Central America + Caribbean

part of North America

• Part of Latin America

• Not part of South America

MexicoUnited Mexican States

Estados Unidos Mexicanos

31 states and one federal republic

2 peninsulas

1 isthmus:

Tehuantepec

Salt water bodies:

Pacific

Gulf of California

Gulf of Mexico

Bay of Campeche

Caribbean

Central America

Middle America

minus

Mexico and Caribbean

Central AmericaPart of North America?

Part of Middle America?

7 countries:

Guatemala

Belize

El Salvador

Honduras

Nicaragua

Costa Rica

Panama

2 bodies of salt water

2 large fresh water lakes:

Lake Nicaragua, Lake Managua

Caribbean (West Indies)

Greater Antilles:

4 large islands:

Cuba

Jamaica

Hispaniola

Puerto Rico

Lesser Antilles:

in arc between S. America and Greater Antilles

Bahamas:

“between” Greater Antilles and FLA

13 independent nations in Caribbean:

1 Bahamas

2 Cuba

3 Jamaica

4 Haiti

5 Dominican Republic

6 St. Christopher (St. Kitts and Nevis)

7 Antigua and Barbuda

8 Dominica

9 St. Lucia

10 Barbados

11 St. Vincent and the Grenadines

12 Grenada

13 Trinidad and Tobago

Dependent nations belonging to US,UK, France, Netherlands

US:

Puerto Rico

self-governing commonwealth

U.S.Virgin Islands

50 islands; internal self- government

Navassa

UK:

Turks and Caicos Islands

(self-governing associated state of UK)

Cayman Islands

(3 self-governing islands)

British Virgin Islands

36 islands

Anguilla

near British Virgin Islands

Montserrat

near Antigua

France

• Guadeloupe: – A French Overseas Department

 

Islands administered by Guadelope are:

Marie-Galante,

La Desirade,

Iles des Saintes,

St. Barthelemy (Bar-te-le MEE) (St. Barths), St. Martin

(St. Martin is jointly ruled by France and Netherlands ; smallest political unit on earth ruled by two countries)

•  Martinique

Netherlands:

 

Netherland Antilles (5 islands) :

autonomous and self-governing

  Bonaire

Curacao

Saba

St. Eustatius

St. Maarten

Aruba

 

 

South America

Part of Latin America; parts not “Latin”

12 countries and one French Overseas Department

(French Guiana)

Andean South America:

Venezuela

Colombia

Ecuador

Peru

Bolivia

Southern South America:

–Chile

–Paraguay

–Argentina

–Uruguay

–Brazil

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Guianas:

French Guiana

Guyana

Suriname

Island groups:

Galapagos (Ecuador)

Falklands / Malvinas (claimed by Argentina and UK)

Tierra del Fuego