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North America
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North America
North America is entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere. It can also be considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
North America was reached by its first human populations during the last glacial period, via crossing the Bering land bridge. The Classic stage spans roughly the 6th to 13th centuries. The Pre-Columbian era ended with the arrival of European settlers during the Age of Discovery and the Early Modern period. Present-day cultural and ethnic patterns reflect different kind of interactions between European colonists, indigenous peoples, African slaves and their descendants.
General Information
Most Spoken Languages
• Spanish
• English
• French
Largest cities
• Mexico City
• New York City
• Los Angeles
Area
24,709,000 Kilometers
Population
565,265,000 hab.
Countries
23 and 22 Dependencies
Density
22,9 hab./km²
Demonym
North American
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Contents
1 Name
2 Extent
2.1 Regions
2.2 Countries, territories, and dependencies
3 History
3.1 Geologic history
3.2 Pre-Columbian
3.3 Colonial period
4 Geography
4.1 Geology
4.1.1 Canadian geology
4.1.2 US geological provinces
4.1.3 Central American geology
4.2 Climate
4.3 Ecology
5 Demographics
5.1 Languages
5.2 Religions
5.3 Populace
6 Economy
6.1 Transport
6.2 Communications
7 Culture
7.1 Sports
8 See also
9 Notes
10 References
11 External links
Name
The Americas are usually accepted as having been named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by the German cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann.Vespucci, who explored South America between 1497 and 1502, was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a different landmass previously unknown by Europeans. In 1507, Waldseemüller produced a world map, in which he placed the word "America" on the continent of South America, in the middle of what is today Brazil. He explained the rationale for the name in the accompanying book Cosmographiae Introductio
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Formation
Chronology
Extent
The term North America maintains various definitions in accordance with location and context. In Canadian English, North America may be used to refer to the United States and Canada together.[9] Alternatively, usage sometimes includes Greenland and Mexico (as in the North American Free Trade Agreement),as well as offshore islands. The UN geoscheme for "North America" separates Mexico from the United States and Canada, placing it instead within its designated "Central America" region, while also treating the islands of the Caribbean separately from the US/Canada definition — the UN's "North America" definition still includes the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland together with the US/Canada continental definition, with both insular entities being tectonically on the North American plate.
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Chronology
Regions
Geographically the North American continent has many regions and subregions. These include cultural, economic, and geographic regions. Economic regions included those formed by trade blocs, such as the North American Trade Agreement bloc and Central American Trade Agreement. Linguistically and culturally, the continent could be divided into Anglo-America and Latin America. Anglo-America includes most of Northern America, Belize, and Caribbean islands with English-speaking populations (though sub-national entities, such as Louisiana and Quebec, are Francophone in composition).
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