Mexico 512
The state of Colima is not
named at all. The boundaries of the northern part of the state of
Quintana Roo are cut off by the territory of Yucatan. And the
boundaries of Quintana Roo encroach on the territory of British
Honduras, later Belize.
The first two are legitimately errors. With respect to
the third: Mexico, Honduras and Great Britain all expressed claims to
some or all of this territory, and it was not until 1991 that these
claims as well as others were settled and Belize was secure in its
independence as a sovereign nation. The boundary on the map expresses
Mexico's views in 1915, and therefore is possibly not an error, but a political
statement.
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