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is provided as an overview of and topical guide to North America.

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

is a continent in the Earth's

Northern Northern may refer to the following: Geography * North, a point in direction * Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe * Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States * Northern Province, Sri Lanka * Northern Range, a ra ...

and Western Hemispheres. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean; South America lies to the southeast.

covers an area of about , about 4.8% of the planet's surface or about 16.5% of its land area. As of July 2007, its population was estimated at nearly 524 million people. It is the third-largest continent in area, following Asia and Africa, and is fourth in population after Asia, Africa, and Europe. North America and South America are collectively known as the

Americas The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World. Along with th ...

Geography of North America

Geography of North America North America is the third largest continent, and is also a portion of the third largest supercontinent if North and South America are combined into the Americas and Africa, Europe, and Asia are considered to be part of one supercontinent called ...

* Americas (terminology) * Atlas of North America *

Continental divide A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea, or else is endorheic, not ...

s of North America: ** Continental Divide of the Americas **

Eastern Continental Divide The Eastern Continental Divide, Eastern Divide or Appalachian Divide is a hydrographic divide in eastern North America that separates the easterly Atlantic Seaboard watershed from the westerly Gulf of Mexico watershed. The divide nearly span ...

** Laurentian Divide *

Extreme points of North America This is a list of the extreme points of North America: the points that are highest and lowest, and farther north, south, east or west than any other location on the continent. Some of these points are debatable, given the varying definitions of ...

Countries and dependencies of North America

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Environment of North America

Regions of North America

Ecoregions of North America

Political divisions of North America

Geographic features of North America

Demography of North America

Geography by country and territory

Government and politics of North America

History of North America

* History of the Americas * History of Central America *

Voyages of Christopher Columbus Between 1492 and 1504, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus led four Spanish transatlantic maritime expeditions of discovery to the Americas. These voyages led to the widespread knowledge of the New World. This breakthrough inaugurated the per ...

** Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact *

History of the west coast of North America The human history of the west coast of North America is believed to stretch back to the arrival of the earliest people over the Bering Strait, or alternately along a now-submerged coastal plain, through the development of significant List of pre- ...

* European colonization of the Americas **

Timeline of colonization of North America This is a chronology and timeline of the colonization of North America, with founding dates of selected European settlements. See also European colonization of the Americas. Before Columbus * 986: Norsemen settle Greenland and Bjarni Herjólfsson ...

Culture of North America

Culture of North America The culture of North America refers to the arts and other manifestations of human activities and achievements from the continent of North America. Cultures of North America reflect not only that of the continent's indigenous peoples but those cult ...

* American (word) * Etiquette in North America ** Etiquette in Canada and the United States ** Etiquette in Latin America * Indigenous peoples of the Americas *

Languages of North America The languages of North America reflect not only that continent's Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous peoples, but the European colonization of the Americas, European colonization as well. The most widely spoken languages in North America ...

** Anglo-America ** North American English *

World Heritage Sites in the Americas This is a list of the lists of World Heritage Sites. A World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having special cultural or physical significance. General lis ...

The arts in North America

Sports in North America

Economy and infrastructure of North America

Education in North America

North America lists

List of newspapers Below are lists of newspapers organized by continent. Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South America See also * *Newspaper of record A newspaper of record is a major national newspaper with large circulation who ...

* Lists of radio stations in North America

References

External links

North America maps at World Atlas.com
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