North America

North America
Area	Around 24.71 million km2
Population	528,720,588 (2008)
Population density	21.4/km2 (55/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)	$20.3 trillion (201moo3)
GDP (PPP)	$20.9 trillion (2013)
Demonym	North American
Countries	23
Languages	List of languages
Time zones	UTC−10 to UTC
Internet TLD	North American TLD
Largest cities	List of urban areas

North America is a large continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres of Earth. It is to the east of the Pacific Ocean, the west of the Atlantic Ocean, the south of the Arctic Ocean, and it is the northern part of the Americas. The southernmost part is Central America. It is the third largest continent in the world after Asia and Africa. North America has a population of around 528 million, and is the 4th most populous continent in the world.

North America has three subregions which are the Caribbean, Central America, and North America. Depending on how it is used, "North America" can be used to mean as the continent as a whole to include all 23 countries or as a subregion to mean Canada, Mexico, and the United States only.^[1]

Hundreds of millions of years ago, North America was part of a larger ancient supercontinent named Laurasia. A few million years ago, a new land bridge arose and connected North America to South America. Beringia connected North America to Siberia a few times during ice ages in the past 20,000 years. North America has many warm tropical islands such as the Bahamas. North America is currently north of South America.

Countries

Official name(s)	Area (km2 or sq mi)	Population	Density (pop. km2)	Capital	Official language(s)
Antigua and Barbuda	442 km² (171 sq mi)	101,489	622	St. John's	English
Bahamas Commonwealth of the Bahamas	13,880 km² (5,360 sq mi)	358,508	24	Nassau	English
Barbados	430 km² (170 sq mi)	303,431	755	Bridgetown	English
Belize	22,966 km² (8,867 sq mi)	419,137	16	Belmopan	English
Canada	8,338,000 km² (3,219,000 sq mi)	38,486,736	5	Ottawa	English French
Costa Rica Republic of Costa Rica	51,100 km² (19,700 sq mi)	5,256,612	112	San Jose	Spanish
Cuba Republic of Cuba	110,860 km² (42,800 sq mi)	10,985,974	95	Havana	Spanish
Dominica Commonwhealth of Dominica	751 km² (290 sq mi)	74,656	96	Roseau	English
Dominican Republic	48,670 km² (18,790 sq mi)	10,790,744	188	Santo Domingo	Spanish
El Salvador Republic of El Salvador	21,041 km² (8,124 sq mi)	6,670,304	330	San Salvador	Spanish
Grenada	344 km² (133 sq mi)	114,700	477	St. George's	English
Guatemala Republic of Guatemala	108,889 km² (42,042 sq mi)	17,980,803	133	Guatemala City	Spanish
Haiti Republic of Haiti	27,750 km² (10,710 sq mi)	11,270,161	77	Port-au-Prince	French
Honduras Republic of Honduras	112,052 km² (43,264 sq mi)	9,571,352	92	Tegucigalpa	Spanish
Jamaica Republic of Jamaica	10,991 km² (4,244 sq mi)	2,830,932	232	Kingston	English
Mexico United Mexican States	1,964,375 km² (758,449 sq mi)	129,875,729	87	Mexico City	Spanish
Nicaragua Republic of Nicaragua	130,370 km² (50,340 sq mi)	6,359,689	221	Managua	Spanish
Panama Republic of Panama	75,420 km² (29,120 sq mi)	4,404,108	66	Panama City	Spanish
Saint Kitts and Nevis Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis	261 km² (101 sq mi)	54,817	313	Basseterre	English
Saint Lucia	606 km² (234 sq mi)	167,591	586	Castries	English
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	388 km² (150 sq mi)	100,814	722	Kingstown	English
Trinidad and Tobago Republic of Trinidad and Tobago	5,127 km² (1,980 sq mi)	1,534,937	295	Port of Spain	English
United States United States of America	8,109,517 km² (3,131,102 sq mi)	338,946,000	15	Washington, D.C.	English Spanish