North America
simple:North America
North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere of Earth, located to the east of the Pacific Ocean, the west of the Atlantic Ocean, the south of the Arctic Ocean, and the north of South America. It is the north part of The Americas.
On the main continent itself can be found three large and relatively populous countries:
At the extreme southern end of the continent, in a relatively small area (smaller than an average Canadian province) called Central America are:
At the extreme southeastern end of the continent, lies a chain of islands territories called the Antilles, the Caribbean or the West Indies. They include:
In the Atlantic Ocean:
- Greenland, the largest island in the world, is considered to be in North America and is located in the far north, to the east of Canada's Nunavut Territory. It is a self-governing dependency of Denmark.
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Found off the coast of Canada it is the last of France's once vast North American possessions.
| country
| pop. dens.
| area
| population
|
|
| (/kmē)
| (kmē)
| (2002-07-01 est.)
|
| Bermuda (UK)
| 1,200
| 53
| 63,960
|
| Barbados
| 642
| 431
| 276,607
|
| Puerto Rico (US)
| 435
| 9,104
| 3,957,988
|
| Martinique (Fr.)
| 384
| 1,100
| 422,277
|
| Aruba (Neth.)
| 365
| 193
| 70,441
|
| U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
| 351
| 352
| 123,498
|
| El Salvador
| 302
| 21,040
| 6,353,681
|
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
| 299
| 389
| 116,394
|
| Saint Lucia
| 260
| 616
| 160,145
|
| Grenada
| 259
| 344
| 89,211
|
| Haiti
| 255
| 27,750
| 7,063,722
|
| Guadeloupe (Fr.)
| 245
| 1,780
| 435,739
|
| Jamaica
| 244
| 10,991
| 2,680,029
|
| Trinidad and Tobago
| 227
| 5,128
| 1,163,724
|
| Netherlands Antilles (Neth.)
| 223
| 960
| 214,258
|
| Dominican Republic
| 179
| 48,730
| 8,721,594
|
| Antigua and Barbuda
| 152
| 443
| 67,448
|
| Saint Kitts and Nevis
| 148
| 261
| 38,736
|
| British Virgin Islands (UK)
| 139
| 153
| 21,272
|
| Cayman Islands (UK)
| 138
| 262
| 36,273
|
| Guatemala
| 122
| 108,890
| 13,314,079
|
| Anguilla (UK)
| 122
| 102
| 12,446
|
| Cuba
| 101
| 110,860
| 11,224,321
|
| Dominica
| 93
| 754
| 70,158
|
| Montserrat (UK)
| 83
| 102
| 8,437
|
| Costa Rica
| 75
| 51,100
| 3,834,934
|
| Honduras
| 59
| 112,090
| 6,560,608
|
| Mexico
| 52
| 1,972,550
| 103,400,165
|
| Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
| 44
| 430
| 18,738
|
| Nicaragua
| 39
| 129,494
| 5,023,818
|
| Panama
| 37
| 78,200
| 2,882,329
|
| United States
| 29
| 9,629,091
| 280,562,489
|
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Fr.)
| 29
| 242
| 6,954
|
| Bahamas
| 22
| 13,940
| 300,529
|
| Belize
| 11
| 22,966
| 262,999
|
| Canada
| 3.2
| 9,976,140
| 31,902,268
|
| Greenland (Denm.)
| 0.03
| 2,166,086
| 56,376
| |
|
See also:
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