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:
