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North America

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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:

   * Canada
        o Some other large islands off the shore of North America and
          belonging to Canada include Vancouver Island and the Queen
          Charlotte Islands on the west, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland
          and Cape Breton Island on the east, and Ellesmere Island, Baffin
          Island, and Victoria Island in the north.
   * Mexico
   * United States
        o includes the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

At the extreme southern end of the continent, in a relatively small area
(smaller than an average Canadian province) called Central America are:

   * Belize
   * Costa Rica
   * El Salvador
   * Guatemala
   * Honduras
   * Nicaragua
   * Panama

At the extreme southeastern end of the continent, lies a chain of islands
territories called the Antilles or the West-Indies. They include:

   * Anguilla (British dependency)
   * Antigua and Barbuda
   * Aruba (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
   * Bahamas
   * Barbados
   * British Virgin Islands (British dependency)
   * Cayman Islands (British dependency)
   * Cuba
   * Dominica (Commonwealth of)
   * Dominican Republic
   * Grenada
   * Guadeloupe (overseas department of France)
   * Haiti
   * Jamaica
   * Martinique (overseas department of France)
   * Montserrat (British dependency)
   * Netherlands Antilles (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
   * Puerto Rico (U.S. commonwealth)
   * Saint Kitts and Nevis
   * Saint Lucia
   * Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
   * Trinidad and Tobago
   * Turks and Caicos Islands (British dependency)
   * U.S. Virgin Islands (territory of the USA)

In the Atlantic Ocean:

   * Bermuda (British dependency)

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.

Off the coast of Canada is found Saint Pierre and Miquelon, the last of
France's once vast North American possessions.

             country              pop. dens.     area       population
                Ê                   (/km2)      (km2)    (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

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