INTRODUCTION
LATITUDE: 7° 12’N to 83° 38’N longitude: 12° 08'W to 172 30'w AREA: 2, 42, 38,000 sq (including Greenland and the Caribbean islands)
POPULATION: 16.3 million
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49° N latitude forms the boundary
between Canada and U.S.A.
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The 100W longitude divides North America into
more or less two equal parts.
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Situation:
North America is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean
in the east, gulf of Mexico the in south,
the pacific ocean in the west and the arctic ocean in the north. To the north it is
separated from the easternmost tip of Siberia by the Bering Strait.
SIZE:
Third largest
continent after Asia and Africa.
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PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES.
1.
CANADA
2.
The United States of America.
3.
Mexico
4.
Central America, which consists of Guatemala,
Belize, EI Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua; Costa Rica and panama.
5.
Greenland---though it is a part of the
continent it belongs to Denmark.
6.
The West Indies consists of some independent
states (the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda,
and Barbados) and Puerto Rico belonging to the USA.
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Land of
lilies
Land
of maple
Latitude:
41°
40’-83°10’
N
Longitude:
52°
40’-14°
1’ W
Area:
99, 76,140 sq. km.
