North America

North America

continent, subcontinent

Part of	America
Short name	北米, 북미
Dem name after	Amerigo Vespucci, Turtle Island, north
Named by	Matthias Ringmann, Iroquois mythology, Martin Waldseemüller
Country	no value
Located in/on physical feature	Northern hemisphere
Coordinate location	47°0′0″N 105°0′0″W
Coordinates of easternmost point	47°31′25″N 52°37′10″W
Coordinates of northernmost point	83°6′41″N 69°57′30″W
Coordinates of southernmost point	7°12′42″N 80°53′8″W
Coordinates of westernmost point	52°55′16″N 172°26′13″E
Highest point	Denali
Lowest point	Badwater Basin
Dey share bother plus	South America, Eurasia
Geography of topic	geography of North America
History of topic	history of North America
Economy of topic	economy of North America
Demographics of topic	demographics of North America
NCI Thesaurus ID	C26275
Category for maps	Category:Maps of North America

North America be continent insyd de Northern den Western Hemispheres. North America be bordered go de north by de Arctic Ocean, go de east by de Atlantic Ocean, go de southeast by South America den de Caribbean Sea, den to de west den south by de Pacific Ocean. Greater North America dey include de Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, de Caribbean, Central America, Clipperton Island, Greenland, Mexico, Saint Pierre den Miquelon, Turks and Caicos Islands, den de United States.

Continental North America dey cover area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), wey dey represent approximately 16.5% of de Earth ein land area den 4.8% of ein total surface area. Ebe de third-largest continent by size after Asia den Africa, den de fourth-largest continent by population after Asia, Africa, den Europe. As of 2021, na dem estimate North America ein population as over 592 million people for 23 independent states insyd, anaa about 7.5% of de world ein population. For human geography insyd, de terms "North America" den "North American" samtyms dey refer to just Canada, de United States, Mexico, den Greenland.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

^†2011 Census figures

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8. ↑ Unless otherwise noted, land area figures are taken from "Demographic Yearbook—Table 3: Population by sex, rate of population increase, surface area and density" (PDF). United Nations Statistics Division. 2008. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
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13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.1} Land area figures taken from "The World Factbook: 2010 edition". Government of the United States, Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on 31 January 2014. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
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• North America at de Encyclopædia Britannica
• North America: Human Geography at de National Geographic Society
• European Colonization of North America at de National Geographic Society
• North America at Curlie
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• The Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online Columbia University Press
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• Interactive SVG version of Non-Native American Nations Control over N America 1750–2008 animation