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Overseas collectivity of France 5. Saint Barthélemy: North America: 9,131: Overseas collectivity of France 6. Saint Pierre and Miquelon: North America: 5,888: Overseas collectivity of France 7. French Southern and Antarctic Lands: Africa, Antarctica: 100: Overseas collectivity of France 8. Clipperton Island: North America: 0: Overseas ...
Location map of French America. French America ( French : Amérique française ), sometimes called Franco-America , in contrast to Anglo-America , is the French-speaking community of people and their diaspora , notably those tracing back origins to New France , the early French colonization of the Americas .
Map of the territories having been controlled by France in North America. This map shows the Louisiana Purchase area, which corresponds approximately with the western half of colonial French Louisiana, the part not ceded to English-speaking peoples in 1763.
The following is a list of sovereign countries and dependent territories in North America, a continent that covers the landmass north of the Colombia-Panama border as well as the islands of the Caribbean.
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (/ ˈ m ɪ k ə l ɒ n /), [4] officially the Overseas Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (French: Collectivité d'outre-mer de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon [sɛ̃ pjɛʁ e miklɔ̃] ⓘ), is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, located near the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas.It comprises three regions, Northern America (Canada and the United States), the Caribbean (cultural region of the English, French, Dutch, and Creole speaking countries located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese).
A map of North America's physical, political, and population characteristics as of 2018. North America is a continent [b] in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. [c] North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean.
Age of the bedrock underlying North America, from red (oldest) to blue, green, yellow (newest). Seventy percent of North America is underlain by the Laurentia craton, [5] which is exposed as the Canadian Shield in much of central and eastern Canada around the Hudson Bay, and as far south as the U.S. states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.