North America

While predominated by the dynamic and , much of North America, including as well as most of and the , has much more in common with .
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The of America spans a continent and numerous islands: its diverse geography comprises vast uninhabited areas of natural beauty punctuated by cities ringed by sprawling suburbs.

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is the world's second largest country by area, behind only . Nicknamed the Great White North, is renowned for its vast landscapes of outstanding natural beauty and its multicultural heritage.

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The islands of the Sea or West Indies are an extensive archipelago in the far west of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly strung between North and .

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is known for its cuisine, art, archaeology, history, pyramids, music, museums, haciendas, 9,600 km of shoreline, superb architecture, weather from snow-capped mountains in the Sierras to rainy jungles in the southeast and desert in the northwest, many golf courses and excellent fishing.

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is the thin section of land that links the North American continent with the continent. Geographically part of North America, it is made up of seven small, mostly tropical countries that have much more in common with South…

North America

  • Type: Locality with 529,000,000 residents
  • Description: continent
  • Also known as: “003 (UN M.49 code)”, “Amérique du Nord”, “N america”, “N America”, “N. America”, “NA”, “North america”, “North America (Americas)”, “North America (continent)”, “North America (region)”, “North American continent”, “North American Continent”, “North and Central America”, “North-America”, and “Turtle Island”
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  • Categories: continent, subcontinent, and part of the world
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Latitude of center
49° north
Longitude of center
-97.226° or 97° 13′ 34″ west
Population
529,000,000
Open­Street­Map ID
node 36966063
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­continent
Wiki­data ID
Q49
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“North America” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Аҩадатәи Америка”
  • Achinese: “Amirika Utara”
  • Adyghe: “Ишъхъэрэ Америкэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Noord-Amerika”
  • Albanian: “Amerika Veriore”
  • Amharic: “ስሜን አሜሪካ”
  • Angika: “उत्तर अमेरिका”
  • Angika: “उत्तरी अमरिका”
  • Arabic: “أمريكا الشمالية”
  • Arabic: “أميركا الشمالية”
  • Aragonese: “America d’o Norte”
  • Armenian: “Հյուսիսային Ամերիկա”
  • Arpitan: “Amèrica de Bise”
  • Arpitan: “Amèrica du Nord”
  • Assamese: “উত্তৰ আমেৰিকা”
  • Asturian: “América del Norte”
  • Asturian: “Norteamérica”
  • Atayal: “Pemeco”
  • Awadhi: “उत्तर अमेरिका”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimali Amerika”
  • Balinese: “Amérika Kalér”
  • Bambara: “Saheli Amerika”
  • Banjar: “Amirika Utara”
  • Bashkir: “Төньяҡ Америка”
  • Basque: “Ipar Amerika”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Amerika Utara”
  • Bavarian: “Noadamerika”
  • Belarusian: “Паўночная Амерыка”
  • Belarusian: “Паўночная Амэрыка”
  • Bengali: “উঃ আমেরিকা”
  • Bengali: “উত্তর আমেরিকা”
  • Bengali: “উত্তর ও মধ্য আমেরিকা”
  • Bengali: “এনএ”
  • Bengali: “কচ্ছপ দ্বীপ”
  • Bhojpuri: “उत्तर अमरीका”
  • Bhojpuri: “उत्तर अमेरिका”
  • Bhojpuri: “उत्तरी अमरीका”
  • Bhojpuri: “उत्तरी अमेरिका”
  • Bislama: “Not Amerika”
  • Bosnian: “Sjeverna Amerika”
  • Brahui: “Kutubí Amríká”
  • Breton: “Norzhamerika”
  • Bulgarian: “Северна Америка”
  • Burmese: “မြောက်အမေရိက”
  • Catalan: “Amèrica boreal”
  • Catalan: “Amèrica del nord”
  • Catalan: “Amèrica del Nord”
  • Catalan: “Nord-amèrica”
  • Cebuano: “Amihanang Amerika”
  • Central Bikol: “Amerika nin Norte”
  • Central Bikol: “Amihanan na Amerika”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەمریکای باکوور”
  • Chechen: “Къилбаседа Америка”
  • Cherokee: “ᏧᏴᏢ ᎠᎹᏰᏟ”
  • Chinese: “Pak Bí-chiu”
  • Chinese: “北美”
  • Chinese: “北美洲”
  • Church Slavic: “Сѣвєрьна Амєрїка”
  • Chuvash: “Çурçĕр Америка”
  • Chuvash: “Ҫурçĕр Америка”
  • Cornish: “Amerika Gledh”
  • Corsican: “America settentriunale”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Şimaliy Amerika”
  • Croatian: “Sjeverna Amerika”
  • Czech: “Severní Amerika”
  • Danish: “Nordamerika”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Amerika Zımey”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Amerikay Zımey”
  • Dotyali: “उत्तर अमेरिका”
  • Dutch: “Noord-Amerika”
  • Eastern Mari: “Йӱдвел Америка”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “امريكا الشماليه”
  • Emilian: “Amèrica dal Nòrd”
  • Erzya: “Пелевеёнксонь Америка”
  • Esperanto: “Nord-Ameriko”
  • Esperanto: “Nordameriko”
  • Estonian: “Põhja-Ameerika manner”
  • Extremaduran: “América el Norti”
  • Faroese: “Norðuramerika”
  • Fiji Hindi: “North America”
  • Fijian: “Nordamerica”
  • Fijian: “Vualiku Amerika”
  • Finnish: “Pohjois-Amerikka”
  • French: “Amérique du Nord (Q19464773) plus Amérique centrale (Q27611)”
  • French: “Amérique du Nord”
  • French: “Île de la Tortue”
  • Friulian: “Americhe dal Nord”
  • Gagauz: “Poyraz Amerika”
  • Galician: “América do Norte”
  • Galician: “Norteamérica”
  • Gan Chinese: “北美洲”
  • Ganda: “North America”
  • Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთი ამერიკა”
  • German: “Nordamerika”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “N America”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “N. America”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “NA”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “North America (Americas)”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “North America (continent)”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “North America”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “North American continent”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “North American Continent”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “North-America”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Turtle Island”
  • Gilaki: “کلسيايي آمريکا”
  • Gilaki: “کلسیا آمریکا”
  • Gilaki: “کلسییا آمریکا”
  • Gothic: “𐌽𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐌰 𐌰𐌼𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰”
  • Gothic: “𐌽𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌸𐌰 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳”
  • Greek: “Βόρεια Αμερική”
  • Guarani: “Yvate Amérika”
  • Guarani: “Yvateamérika”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Lanmérik di Nò”
  • Gujarati: “ઉત્તર અમેરિકા”
  • Haitian: “Amerik dinò”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pet Mî-chû”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pet-mî-chû”
  • Hausa: “Amirka ta Arewa”
  • Hausa: “Amurka ta Arewa”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Amelika ‘Ākau”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻAmelika ʻĀkau”
  • Hebrew: “אמריקה הצפונית”
  • Hebrew: “צפון אמריקה”
  • Hebrew: “צפון-אמריקה”
  • Hindi: “उत्तर अमेरिका”
  • Hungarian: “Észak-Amerika”
  • Iban: “Amerika Utara”
  • Icelandic: “Norður-Ameríka”
  • Igbo: “Olile anyanwu Amerika”
  • Iloko: “Amianan nga Amerika”
  • Inari Sami: “Tave-Amerik”
  • Indonesian: “Amerika Utara”
  • Ingush: “ГIинбухера Америка”
  • Ingush: “ГӀинбухера Америка”
  • Interlingua: “America del Nord”
  • Interlingue: “America del Nord”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐊᒥᐊᓕᒐᐃᑦ ᐅᐊᖕᓇᖓᓂ”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐊᒥᐊᕆᑲ ᑐᓄᕕᐊᖅ”
  • Inupiaq: “Salliñiq Amirika”
  • Irish: “Meiriceá Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Meiriceá Thuiaidh”
  • Italian: “America del Nord”
  • Italian: “America Settentrionale e Centrale”
  • Italian: “America settentrionale”
  • Italian: “Continente nord-americano”
  • Italian: “Continente nordamericano”
  • Italian: “Nord America”
  • Italian: “Nord-America”
  • Italian: “Nordamerica”
  • Italian: “Nordamericano”
  • Italian: “North America”
  • Italian: “Subcontinente nordamericano”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Naat Amoerka”
  • Japanese: “北アメリカ”
  • Japanese: “北米”
  • Javanese: “Amérika Lèr”
  • Javanese: “Amérika Lor”
  • Kabardian: “Ишхъэрэ Америкэ”
  • Kabardian: “Ишъхъэрэ Америкэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Amerika nɛ hayi tɛtʋ wandamm”
  • Kabyle: “Tamrikt n Ugafa”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Amirika Koibutan”
  • Kalaallisut: “Amerika Avannarleq”
  • Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರ ಅಮೇರಿಕ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Arqa Amerika”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Шимал Америка”
  • Kashmiri: “شُمٲلی امریکہ”
  • Kashubian: “Nordowô Amerika”
  • Kazakh: “Солтүстік Америка”
  • Khmer: “អាមេរិក​ខាង​ជើង”
  • Khmer: “អាមេរិកខាងជើង”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kaamerikhan Naaminhan”
  • Kinaray-A: “Naaminhan nga Kaamerikhan”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Amerika ya Ruguru”
  • Kirghiz: “Түндүк Америка”
  • Komering: “Amerika Liba”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Ойвыв Америка”
  • Komi: “Войвыв Америка”
  • Kongo: “Amelika ya Nodi”
  • Korean: “북미”
  • Korean: “북아메리카”
  • Kotava: “Lentefa Amerika”
  • Kurdish: “Amerîkaya Bakur”
  • Kurdish: “ئامەریکایا باکور”
  • Ladin: “America dl Nord”
  • Ladino: “Amerika del Nord”
  • Ladino: “Amerika del Norte”
  • Lao: “ທະວີບອາເມຣິກາເໜືອ”
  • Lao: “ອາເມຣິກາເໜືອ”
  • Latin: “America Septentrionalis”
  • Latvian: “Ziemeļamerika”
  • Lezghian: “Кеферпатан Америка”
  • Ligurian: “America do Nòrd”
  • Limburgan: “Noord-Amerika”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “America Norde”
  • Lithuanian: “Šiaurės Amerika”
  • Livvi: “Pohjas-Amerikku”
  • Lojban: “bemtu’a”
  • Lombard: “America del Nord”
  • Low German: “Noord-Amerika”
  • Low German: “Noordamerika”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Pódpołnocna Amerika”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nordamerika”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “America di Aratsile”
  • Macedonian: “Северна Америка”
  • Maithili: “उत्तर अमेरिका”
  • Malagasy: “Amerika Avaratra”
  • Malay: “Amerika Utara”
  • Malayalam: “വടക്കേ അമേരിക്ക”
  • Maltese: “Amerika ta‘ Fuq”
  • Maltese: “L-Amerika ta‘ Fuq”
  • Maltese: “L-Amerika ta’ Fuq”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯋꯥꯡ ꯑꯃꯦꯔꯤꯀꯥ”
  • Manx: “America Hwoaie”
  • Maori: “Amerika-ki-te-Raki”
  • Maori: “Nōta Amerika”
  • Marathi: “उत्तर अमेरिका”
  • Mazanderani: “شمالی امریکا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Báe̤k Mī-ciŭ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pak Bí-chiu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pak-bí-chiu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pak-bí”
  • Minangkabau: “Amerika Utara”
  • Mingrelian: “ოორუე ამერიკა”
  • Mirandese: “América de l Norte”
  • Moksha: “Кельмеширень Америк”
  • Moksha: “Кельмеширень Америкась”
  • Mon: “အမေရိကသၟဝ်ကျာ”
  • Mongolian: “Хойд Америк”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أمريكا الشمالية”
  • N'Ko: “ߊߡߋߙߌߞߌ߬ ߞߐ߬ߘߎ߮”
  • N'Ko: “ߞߐ߬ߘߎ߮ ߊߡߋߙߌߞߌ߬”
  • Narom: “Améthique du Nord”
  • Neapolitan: “Nordamèreca”
  • Nepali: “उत्तर अमेरिका”
  • Newari: “उत्तर अमेरिका”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nuurd-Ameerikoo”
  • Northern Sami: “Davvi-Amerihkká”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nord-Amerika”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nord-Amerika”
  • Norwegian: “Nord-Amerika”
  • Novial: “Nordi Amerika”
  • Nyanja: “North America”
  • Obolo: “Amerika Inyọn̄”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “America del Nòrd”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “America deu Nòrd”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܡܪܝܩܐ ܓܪܒܝܝܬܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Norðamerica”
  • Oriya: “ଉତ୍ତର ଆମେରିକା”
  • Oromo: “Ameerikaa Kaabaa”
  • Oromo: “North America”
  • Ossetian: “Цæгат Америк”
  • Ossetian: “Цæгат Америкæ”
  • Ossetian: “Цæгат Амырык”
  • Pa'o Karen: “အမေႏရိကထင်ꩻ”
  • Pampanga: “Pangúlung Amerika”
  • Panjabi: “ਉੱਤਰੀ ਅਮਰੀਕਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Nort Amerika”
  • Papiamento: “Nort Amérika”
  • Pedi: “Amerika Leboa”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Nard-Amerikaa”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Natt Amerikaa”
  • Persian: “North America”
  • Persian: “آمریکا شمالی”
  • Persian: “آمریکای شمالی”
  • Picard: “Anmérike du Nord”
  • Piemontese: “América Setentrional”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “North Merika”
  • Polish: “Ameryka Północna”
  • Polish: “AP”
  • Polish: “NA”
  • Portuguese: “América do Norte e América Central”
  • Portuguese: “América do Norte”
  • Pushto: “شمالي امريکا”
  • Quechua: “Chinchay Awya Yala”
  • Romanian: “America de Nord”
  • Romansh: “America dal Nord”
  • Russia Buriat: “Хойто Америка”
  • Russia Buriat: “Хойто Америкэ”
  • Russian: “Северная Америка”
  • Rusyn: “Северна Америка”
  • Samoan: “Amerika i Matu”
  • Samogitian: “Šiaurės Amerėka”
  • Sanskrit: “उत्तर-अमेरिकाखण्डः”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱚᱧᱮ ᱟᱢᱮᱨᱤᱠᱟ”
  • Santali: “ᱮ. ᱟᱢᱮᱨᱤᱠᱟ”
  • Saraiki: “شمالی امریکہ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Noud-Amerikoa”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Noudamerikoa”
  • Scots: “North Americae”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Aimearaga a Tuath”
  • Serbian: “Северна Америка”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Severna Amerika”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sjeverna Amerika”
  • Shan: “ဢမႄႇရိၵႁွင်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Amerika Maodzanyemba”
  • Shona: “North America”
  • Sicilian: “Amèrica dû Nord”
  • Sicilian: “Mèrica dû nord”
  • Silesian: “Půłnocno Amerika”
  • Sindhi: “اتر آمريڪا”
  • Sinhala: “උතුරු ඇමෙරිකාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tâʹvv-Amerikk”
  • Slovak: “Severná Amerika”
  • Slovenian: “Severna Amerika”
  • Somali: “Woqooyiga Ameerika”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شومالی آمریکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوزئی آمریکا”
  • Southern Sotho: “Amerika Leboya”
  • Spanish: “America del Norte y America Central”
  • Spanish: “América del Norte”
  • Spanish: “América septentrional”
  • Spanish: “Norte América”
  • Spanish: “Norteamerica”
  • Spanish: “Norteamérica”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Opo Amrika”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⵥⵥⵍⵎⴹ ⵏ ⴰⵎⵔⵉⴽⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Amérika Kalér”
  • Swahili: “Amerika Kaskazini”
  • Swahili: “Amerika ya Kaskazini”
  • Swedish: “Nordamerika”
  • Swiss German: “Nordamerika”
  • Tagalog: “Hilagang Amerika”
  • Tagalog: “kontinente sa Kaamerikahan”
  • Tajik: “Амрикои Шимолӣ”
  • Tajik: “Омрикои Шимолӣ”
  • Talysh: “Kobəsonə Amerikə”
  • Tamil: “வட அமெரிக்கா”
  • Tamil: “வட அமேரிக்கா”
  • Tamil: “வடக்கு அமெரிக்கா”
  • Tatar: “Tönyak Amerika”
  • Tatar: “Төньяк Америка”
  • Tatar: “Төньяк Әмрикә”
  • Telugu: “ఉత్తర అమెరికా”
  • Thai: “ทวีปอเมริกาเหนือ”
  • Thai: “อเมริกาเหนือ”
  • Tibetan: “གླིང་ཆེན་ཨ་མེ་རི་ཁ་བྱང་མ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Not Amerika”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Nordamerika”
  • Tsonga: “Amerikha ya le N’walungu”
  • Tulu: “ಉತ್ತರ ಅಮೇರಿಕ”
  • Tumbuka: “Amelika wa Kumpoto”
  • Tumbuka: “North America”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey Amerika kıtası”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey Amerika”
  • Turkmen: “Demirgazyk Amerika”
  • Tuvinian: “Соңгу Америка”
  • Twi: “North America”
  • Tyap: “Amerika A̱za”
  • Udmurt: “Уйпал Америка”
  • Uighur: “شىمالىي ئامېرىكا”
  • Ukrainian: “Північна Америка”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sewjerna Amerika”
  • Urdu: “شمالی امریکا”
  • Uzbek: “Shimoliy Amerika”
  • Venetian: “Amèrica del Nord”
  • Venetian: “nordamèrica”
  • Veps: “Pohjoižamerik”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Mĩ”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Mỹ”
  • Vlaams: “Nôord-Amerika”
  • Vlax Romani: “Nordutni Amerika”
  • Volapük: “Nolüda-Merop”
  • Võro: “Põh’a-Ameeriga”
  • Walloon: “Amerike bijhrece”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amihanan nga Amerika”
  • Welsh: “Gogledd America”
  • Western Armenian: “Հիւսիսային Ամերիկա”
  • Western Frisian: “Noard-Amearika”
  • Western Panjabi: “اُبھا امریکا”
  • Western Panjabi: “شمالی امریکا”
  • Wolof: “Bëj-gànnaaru Aamerig”
  • Wu Chinese: “北美洲”
  • Xhosa: “UmNtla Melika”
  • Yakut: “Хоту Америка”
  • Yiddish: “צפון אמעריקע”
  • Yoruba: “Àríwá Amẹ́ríkà”
  • Yue Chinese: “北美洲”
  • Zeeuws: “Noord-Amerika”
  • Zeeuws: “Noôrd-Amerika”
  • Zhuang: “Baekmeijcouh”
  • Zulu: “IMelika Enyakatho”
  • “Amèrica dal Nòrd”
  • “America di Nord”
  • “Americhe settendrionale”
  • “Amerika Lor”
  • “Amerika Utara”
  • “ma Amelika lete”
  • “ma Nosamelika”
  • “Põh’a-Ameeriga”
  • “Šiaurės Amerėka”
  • “Tsonko Amerikah”
  • “उत्तर अमेरिका”

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