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It is bounded by the Canadian coniferous forests on the north and the arid semideserts to the southwest. The province itself is occupied by temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands (including such ecoregions as the Flint Hills tallgrass prairie, Sand Hills, High Plains). Endemism is rather limited in this province, and its boundaries are ...
The following islands are usually associated with Europe rather than North America, despite lying closer to Greenland than to Scandinavia: Iceland, world's 18th largest island; Jan Mayen; Svalbard Archipelago. Spitsbergen, world's 35th largest island; Nordaustlandet, world's 58th largest island; Edgeoya; Barentsoya
List of islands of Colombia; List of islands of Ecuador; List of islands of the Falkland Islands; List of islands of French Guiana; List of islands of Guyana; List of islands of Paraguay; List of islands of Peru; List of islands of Suriname; List of islands of Uruguay; List of islands of Venezuela; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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.
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.
Mixed prairie is more common and is part of the dry interior plains that extend from Canada south to the U.S. state of Texas. The northern short grasslands (WWF terminology) shown here on a map of North America in green, is a type of true prairie (grassland) that occurs in the southern parts of the Prairie Provinces.
They rise like a large island from the sea, occupying an oval area of about 100 mi (160 km) north-south by 50 mi (80 km) east-west. At Black Elk Peak , they reach an altitude of 7,216 ft (2,199 m) and have an effective relief over the plains of 2,000 or 3,000 ft (610 or 910 m) This mountain mass is of flat-arched, dome-like structure, now well ...
Virgin Islands VGB English: Virgin Islands: Road Town: 31,122 153 km 2 (59 sq mi) United States dollar: Cayman Islands CYM English: Cayman Islands: George Town: 68,136 262 km 2 (101 sq mi) Cayman Islands dollar: Montserrat [n 1] MSR English: Montserrat: Plymouth (de jure — abandoned) Brades (de facto — seat of government) 4,417 102 km 2 (39 ...