North America

North America was a continent on Earth and, along with neighboring South America, was an ancestral home of Native American Human tribes. This continent contained Canada, Mexico, the United States, as well as the Central American and Caribbean regions. The Arctic Circle passed through northern North America. North America bordered the Atlantic Ocean at its East Coast and the Pacific at its Pacific Coast, as well as the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.
In the late 17th century, the north-western North American continent was unexplored by European explorers. On their maps, they named this region "America Septentrionalis". (, opening credits)
In an alternate 1944, Nazi Germany invaded the continent. ()
North America was depicted in many assignment patches of NASA's space programs, especially for the Apollo program and space shuttle orbiter program, in the 20th and 21st centuries. Copies of these patches were displayed at the 602 Club. ()
The North American continent was visible on a specific 21st century-era political map of Earth, which was stored in the 's library computer in 2254. This map was among numerous materials viewed by the Talosians when they scanned the Enterprise computer in that year. ()
When the Enterprise was first approaching , that planet's equivalent of North America was shown on the ship's viewscreen. ()
In 2378, Reginald Barclay arranged for McKinley Station to send an image of the continent to the in the Delta Quadrant. Captain Kathryn Janeway, appreciating the gesture, thanked Barclay. ()
== Appendices ==
=== Background information ===
One of the 17th century maps, known as "Harmonia macrocosmica seu atlas universalis et novus, totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens", was created by . A scan of the original can be found .
The maps used in the original were published in the early 1960s. The landmasses of North and Central America, and the Caribbean Islands, were seen on two political maps of the northern hemisphere. Decades later, the map used in the remastered "The Cage" was a Central Intelligence Agency map published either in April 2007 or September 2008. The difference, which was not noticeable at the resolution of the image from the episode, was the addition of Kosovo, which gained its independence between the releases.
File:Earth map, 20th century, Northern Hemisphere.jpg|20th century-era political map of Earth
File:Earth map, 20th century, North Pacific.jpg|20th century-era political map of Earth 
Features from the CIA map 	Features from the CIA map	Features from the CIA map
Country 	Capital 	Notes
Anguilla 	 	A Caribbean territory of the United Kingdom
Antigua and Barbuda 	 	A Caribbean country.
Aruba 	 	A Caribbean territory of the Netherlands
Bahamas 	Nassau 	A Caribbean country
Belize 	Belmopan 	A Central American country
Barbados 	 	A Caribbean country
Bermuda 	 	A North Atlantic Ocean territory of the United Kingdom
British Virgin Islands 	 	A Caribbean territory of the United Kingdom
Canada 	Ottawa 	A Northern American country. Major cities - Calgary, Churchill, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Halifax, Happy Valley - Goose Bay, Iqaluit, Kuujjuag, Montreal, Pond Inlet, Prince George, Québec, Resolute, Saskatoon, Toronto, Vancouver, Whitehourse, Winnipeg
Cayman Islands 	 	A Caribbean territory of the United Kingdom
Clipperton Island 	 	A North Pacific Ocean territory of France
Costa Rica 	San José 	A Central American country
Cuba 	Havana 	A Caribbean country
Dominica 	 	A Caribbean country
Dominican Republic 	Santo Domingo 	A Caribbean country. Major city - Santiago
El Salvador 	San Salvador 	A Central American country.
Greenland 	Nuuk (Godthåb) 	A territory of Denmark, between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean. Major city - Qaanaaq (Thule)
Grenada 	 	A Caribbean country.
Guadeloupe 	 	A Caribbean territory of France
Guatemala 	Guatemala 	A Central American country
Haiti 	Port-au-Prince 	A Caribbean country
Honduras 	Tegucigalpa 	A Central American country
Jamaica 	Kingston 	A Caribbean country
Martinique 	 	A Caribbean territory of France
Mexico 	Mexico City 	A Northern American country. Major cities - Acapulco, Cancún, Ciudad Juarez, Guadalajara, León, Matamoros, Mérida, Mexicali, Monterery, Oaxaca, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Tijuana, Toluca, Torreón
Montserrat 	 	A Caribbean territory of the United Kingdom
Navassa Island 	 	A Caribbean territory of the United States
Netherlands Antilles 	 	A Caribbean territory of the Netherlands
Nicaragua 	Managua 	A Central American country.
Panama 	Panama 	A Central American country. Major city - Colón
Puerto Rico 	San Juan 	A Caribbean territory of the United States
Saint Kitts and Nevis 	 	A Caribbean country
Saint Lucia 	 	A Caribbean country
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 	 	A North Atlantic Ocean territory of France
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	 	A Caribbean country
Trinidad and Tobago 	Port of Spain 	A Caribbean country
Turks and Caicos Islands 	 	A Caribbean territory of the United Kingdom
United States 	Washington, DC 	A Northern American country. Major cities - Anchorage, Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Barrow, Boston, Buffalo, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, El Paso, Fairbanks, Honolulu, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Juneau, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Nome, Norfolk, Oklahoma, Orlando, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Providence, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Tampa
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