North America

**North America** be continent insyd de Northern den Western Hemispheres. North America be bordered go de north by de Arctic Ocean, go de east by de Atlantic Ocean, go de southeast by South America den de Caribbean Sea, den to de west den south by de Pacific Ocean. Greater North America dey include de Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, de Caribbean, Central America, Clipperton Island, Greenland, Mexico, Saint Pierre den Miquelon, Turks and Caicos Islands, den de United States.

Continental North America dey cover area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), wey dey represent approximately 16.5% of de Earth ein land area den 4.8% of ein total surface area. Ebe de third-largest continent by size after Asia den Africa, den de fourth-largest continent by population after Asia, Africa, den Europe. As of 2021, na dem estimate North America ein population as over 592 million people for 23 independent states insyd, anaa about 7.5% of de world ein population. For human geography insyd, de terms "North America" den "North American" samtyms dey refer to just Canada, de United States, Mexico, den Greenland.

## Definitions

### Countries, dependencies, den oda territories

## Demographics

### Populace

†2011 Census figures

## Economy

## Culture

### Popular culture – sports

## References


## You fi read further

* Gould, E.; Mapp, P.; Pestana, C.G. (2022). *The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500—1820*. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-31781-8.
* McIlwraith, T.F.; Muller, E.K.; Conzen, M.P.; DeVorsey, L.; Earle, C.; Grim, R.E.; Groves, P.A.; Guelke, J.K.; Harris, C.; Harris, R. (2001). *North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent*. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4616-3960-2. LCCN 2020740684.
* Berndl, K.; National Geographic Society (U.S.) (2005). *National Geographic Visual History of the World*. National Geographic Society. ISBN 978-0-7922-3695-5. LCCN 2005541553.
* Axtell, J. (1988). *After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America*. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-802206-0. LCCN 87034886.
* Kehoe, A.B. (2016). *North America before the European Invasions*. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-49544-4. LCCN 2016054024.
* Haines, M.R.; Steckel, R.H. (2000). *A Population History of North America*. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-49666-7. LCCN 99023284.
* Kruer, M. (2022). *Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America*. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-26956-9.
* Axtell, J. (1981). *The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America*. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-502904-8. LCCN lc80025084.

## External links

* North America web resources provided by GovPubs at de University of Colorado Boulder Libraries
* North America at de *Encyclopædia Britannica*
* North America: Human Geography at de National Geographic Society
* European Colonization of North America at de National Geographic Society
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*  . *Encyclopædia Britannica*. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 760–765.
* The Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online Columbia University Press
* "Colonial North America at Harvard Library". Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard Library. 2015. LCCN 2019234716. Archived from the original on 25 March 2023. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
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