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North America

North America

Stretching from the Arctic ice to the Panama isthmus, this continent packs boreal forest, prairie, desert and rainforest into a single north-south sweep - and holds the largest freshwater system on Earth.

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0People
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Quick facts

  • The Great Lakes contain about 21 per cent of the world's surface fresh water.
  • Greenland is the largest island on Earth and part of North America.
  • Death Valley recorded 56.7 ยฐC in 1913, the highest reliable air temperature ever measured.

โ–ฒ Denali, 6,190 m  ยท  โ–ผ Badwater Basin, โˆ’86 m

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Countries of North America

38 mapped, ordered by population.

1 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States of America Northern America 328.24M 2 ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico Central America 127.58M 3 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada Northern America 37.59M 4 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡น Guatemala Central America 16.6M 5 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡บ Cuba Caribbean 11.33M 6 ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡น Haiti Caribbean 11.26M 7 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด Dominican Rep. Caribbean 10.74M 8 ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ณ Honduras Central America 9.75M 9 ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Nicaragua Central America 6.55M 10 ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ป El Salvador Central America 6.45M 11 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ท Costa Rica Central America 5.05M 12 ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฆ Panama Central America 4.25M 13 ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท Puerto Rico Caribbean 3.19M 14 ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Jamaica Caribbean 2.95M 15 ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡น Trinidad and Tobago Caribbean 1.39M 16 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฟ Belize Central America 390.35K 17 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ธ Bahamas Caribbean 389.48K 18 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ง Barbados Caribbean 287.03K 19 ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡จ Saint Lucia Caribbean 182.79K 20 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ผ Curaรงao Caribbean 157.54K 21 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Grenada Caribbean 112K 22 ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡จ St. Vin. and Gren. Caribbean 110.59K 23 ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ฎ U.S. Virgin Is. Caribbean 106.63K 24 ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ผ Aruba Caribbean 106.31K 25 ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Antigua and Barb. Caribbean 97.12K 26 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Dominica Caribbean 71.81K 27 ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡พ Cayman Is. Caribbean 64.95K 28 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฒ Bermuda Northern America 63.92K 29 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Greenland Northern America 56.23K 30 ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ณ St. Kitts and Nevis Caribbean 52.83K 31 ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Sint Maarten Caribbean 40.73K 32 ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡จ Turks and Caicos Is. Caribbean 38.19K 33 ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ซ St-Martin Caribbean 38K 34 ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ฌ British Virgin Is. Caribbean 30.03K 35 ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Anguilla Caribbean 14.73K 36 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฑ St-Barthรฉlemy Caribbean 9.96K 37 ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฒ St. Pierre and Miquelon Northern America 6K 38 ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ธ Montserrat Caribbean 4.65K

Peaks

The highest ground on this continent.

6,190 m

Denali

Alaska Range ยท United States of America

5,959 m

Mount Logan

Saint Elias Mountains ยท Canada

5,636 m

Pico de Orizaba

Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt ยท Mexico

4,392 m

Mount Rainier

Cascade Range ยท United States of America

Where to go

Featured destinations across North America.

Chichรฉn Itzรก

Ancient

At each equinox the afternoon sun throws a serpent of shadow down the staircase of El Castillo.

MexicoNov โ€“ Mar

Grand Canyon

Nature

A 446 km gash cut by the Colorado River, exposing nearly two billion years of rock in its walls.

United States of AmericaMar โ€“ May, Sep โ€“ Nov

Banff & Lake Louise

Nature

Rock flour ground by glaciers stays suspended in the meltwater, turning the lakes an unreal turquoise.

CanadaJun โ€“ Sep, Dec โ€“ Mar

Antelope Canyon

Nature

A slot canyon scoured by flash floods, where midday light drops through the crack in solid shafts.

United States of AmericaMar โ€“ Oct

New York City

City

Around 800 languages are spoken here, making it the most linguistically dense city ever recorded.

United States of AmericaApr โ€“ Jun, Sep โ€“ Nov

Route 66

Adventure

Chicago to Santa Monica, 3,940 km of the Mother Road, decommissioned in 1985 but never really closed.

United States of AmericaMay โ€“ Oct