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Below is a list of countries and dependencies in North America by area. [1] The region includes Canada, the Caribbean, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Central America, Greenland, Mexico, and the United States. Canada is the largest country in North America and the Western Hemisphere.
Pan-American countries by population, 2020. This is a list of countries and dependent territories in the Americas by population, which is sorted by the 2015 mid-year normalized demographic projections.
This is a list of North American countries and dependencies by population in North America, total projected population from the United Nations [1] ...
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. The entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which includes sovereign states and dependent territories.
Country of Curaçao CUW Dutch: Curaçao — Land Curaçao Papiamento: Kòrsou — Pais Kòrsou: Willemstad: 190,338 276 km 2 (107 sq mi) Netherlands Antillean guilder Netherlands: Constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: Federal Dependencies VE-W Spanish: Dependencias Federales de Venezuela: Gran Roque: 2,155 342 km 2 (132 sq mi ...
North America occupies the northern portion of the landmass generally referred to as the New World, the Western Hemisphere, the Americas, or simply America, which, in many countries, is considered a single continent [50] [51] [52] with North America a subcontinent. [53] [54] [55] North America is the third-largest continent by area after Asia ...
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
The largest river basin in South America is that of the Amazon, which has the highest volume flow of any river on Earth. [73] The second largest watershed of South America is that of the Paraná River, which covers about 2.5 million km 2. [74]