Central America is a geographical concept. It belongs to North America or South America according to different division methods. It generally refers to the isthmus connecting North and South America. There are currently seven countries, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. . After Columbus first landed in the Americas in the Bahamas in 1492, it opened the beginning of the colonization of the Americas by Western European countries. After the Spanish army actively intervened, the Aztec Empire and Mayan civilization in this area were wiped out. In 1821, Central America became independent from Spain, and a country called the United Provinces of Central America emerged, including what is now El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and other places, but not Belize and Panama. Central_America.jpg