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Domestic short name(s) Capital Population 2021 Area Currency Sovereign state Legal status Aruba Country of Aruba ABW Dutch: Aruba: Oranjestad: 106,537 193 km 2 (75 sq mi) Aruban florin Netherlands: Constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: Bonaire [n 5] BES Dutch: Bonaire Papiamento: Boneiru: Kralendijk: 20,104 179 km 2 (69 sq mi ...
South America has only one independent sovereign island nation with Trinidad and Tobago; though considered a Caribbean island country, it is located on the northern portion of the South American continental shelf just 11 kilometres (6 nautical miles) off Venezuela, but 130 kilometres (70 nautical miles) from Grenada, the nearest of the Antilles.
Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. Some have special names particular to poetic diction or other contexts. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any ...
In some languages, Holland is used as the formal name for the Netherlands. However, Holland is a region within the Netherlands that consists of the two provinces of North and South Holland. Formerly these were a single province, and earlier the County of Holland, which included parts of present-day Utrecht.
NAC: North America and the Caribbean; NAM: Non-Aligned Movement; NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization; NATO is formal group country to defend itself against outside aggression. NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement, was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
Lake islands of North America: Atlin Lake, Theresa Island, highest elevation inside a freshwater lake in North America at 2059m; Lake Huron. Manitoulin Island, world's largest inland island; Saint Joseph Island, world's 8th largest inland island; Drummond Island, world's 9th largest inland island; Thirty Thousand Islands; Lake Superior
Also included is the number of unique sovereign states [a] that a country or territory shares as neighbors. If the number is higher due to multiple dependencies or unrecognized states bordering the state, the larger number is shown in brackets. Footnotes are provided to provide clarity regarding the status of certain countries and territories.
This is a list of North American countries and dependencies by population in North America, total projected population from the United Nations [1] and the latest official figure. Map [ edit ]