North America is the third largest continent in area and in population after Asia
and Africa. It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the
North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the
North Pacific Ocean. It covers an area of 9,355,000 square miles (24,230,000 square
kilometers). In 2001 its population was estimated at 454,225,000. It can be geographically
defined by subtracting South America from the supercontinent of the Americas.
Both North and South America are named after Amerigo Vespucci, who was the first
European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a previously
undiscovered New World.
Although Canada, the United States, and Mexico are geographically in North
America, in a European mindset, however, North America is often considered to
include Canada and the United States, but not Mexico or any of the Central American
countries, which in some contexts may cause confusion. In Latin America, the
Americas are considered as one continent and therefore North America is only
a subcontinent composed by Canada, United States and Mexico.
North America occupies the northern portion of the landmass generally referred
to as the New World, the Western Hemisphere, the Americas, or simply America.
North America's only land connection is to South America at the narrow Isthmus
of Panama and Panama Canal. According to some authorities, North America begins
not at the Isthmus of Panama but at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, with the intervening
region called Central America. Most, however, tend to see Central America as
a region of North America, considering it too small to be a continent of its
own.
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