Talk:Mexico

Add the complete name of the president Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa Jorghe Tell me 02:16, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Location of Mexico

We are having a big discussion in our household. My 9 year old and I both agree that THE UNITED STATES and MEXICO are both part of NORTH AMERICA. Now, my 13 year old and his SOCIAL STUDIES teachers have said MEXICO is not part of THE UNITED STATES and NORTH AMERICA, but that it is really a part of SOUTH AMERICA.

Now we have viewed this over the INTERNET and my 9 year old and I are both right.

If anyone has any discussion about this, please feel free to edit.

Alicia Renee Landrum

Mexico and the United States of America are both part of the continent of North America, along with about 20 other countries. There is a list of all the countries in North America in the article. (Click on the name to go to the article.)

There is sometimes confusion because in addition to the continents of North and South America, there are Geographic Regions.

The geographic regions include Central America and Middle America. These are very important regions but they are not continents.

Mexico is part of Middle America. It is not part of South America or Central America.

Mexico is in "southern North America". Perhaps that was what the teacher said. Wanderer57 (talk) 23:59, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

North America shown in Mauve (Greenland), Blue (Mexico, the USA & Canada), Green (Central America), and Red (Caribbean). South America is in Orange

Mexico is part of North America, I hope that image on the right can help you, you can check other languages for more information, cheers. Supaman89 (talk) 15:51, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

French: fr:Amérique du Nord
Italian: it:America settentrionale
Spanish: es:América del Norte
Portuguese: pt:América do Norte
German: de:Nordamerika
Romanian: ro:America de Nord
and so on.

(Click image to enlarge.) Wanderer57 (talk) 20:43, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

What may be a little more controversial is which contries comprise "Latin America". However, México is not often part of that controversy, as it is almost always considered to be a part of Latin America. Yes, It is definitely considered part of North America. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.59.224.32 (talk) 23:14, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Name translations

We need to do some work on standardizing proper name versions and translations, not only for México, but throughout Wikipedia. Focusing on México, the proper names should be the "Spanish" versions. Even though the article is in English, the country is not. So, even the "common" name for México should be stated as "México". Then, yes, there are official English versions of the names. These should be stated as such along with any reference that makes them so. (For example--to be researched and verified--the US Bureau of Standards specified English versions, the US Congress specified recognized English versions, the Mexican congress specified English versions, etc.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.59.224.32 (talk) 23:18, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

The actual name of the article, however, can certainly be left in the English common version, "Mexico", because it is an English encyclopedia and the most commonly used version of the name. However, the name should be clearly disambiguated so that any proper spelling leads to--and is validated by--the same article.