North America Political Map
North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and in the western hemisphere. 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 west by the North Pacific Ocean; South America lies to the southeast. North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), about 4.8% of the planet's surface or about 16.5% of its land area. As of July 2008, its population was estimated at nearly 529 million people. It is the third-largest continent in area, following Asia and Africa, and the fourth in population after Asia, Africa, and Europe.
List of countries in North America with their political seat, national territorial area, number of inhabitants and population density.
Country | Capital | Area | Population | Density |
Antigua and Barbuda | St. John's | 440 km² | 100,963 pop. (est.2016) | 186/km² |
Bahamas, The | Nassau | 13,880 km² | 392 718 pop. (est. 2016) | 25.21/km² |
Barbados | Bridgetown | 439 km² | 277,821 pop. (2010 census) | 660/km² |
Belize | Belmopan | 22,966 km² | 387 879 pop. (est. 2017) | 14.1/km² |
Canada | Ottawa | 9 984 670 km² | 37,067,011 pop. (est. 2018) | 3.92/km² |
Costa Rica | San Jose | 51 100 km² | 5 003 000 pop. (census 2018) | 97.9/km² |
Cuba | Havana | 109 884 km² | 11 221 060 pop. (census 2017) | 102.3/km² |
Dominica | Roseau | 750 km² | 73,543 pop. (est. 2016) | 105/km² |
Dominican Republic | Santo Domingo | 48,671 km² | 10,735,896 pop. (est. 2018) | 220/km² |
El Salvador | San Salvador | 21,041 km² | 6,344,722 pop. (est 2016) | 303.1/km² |
Grenada | Saint George | 348.5 km² | 107,317 pop. (est. 2016) | 825.1/km² |
Guatemala | Guatemala City | 108,889 km² | 17,263,239 pop. (est. 2018) | 129/km² |
Haiti | Port-au-Prince | 27,750 km² | 10,847,334 pop. (est. 2016) | 382/km² |
Honduras | Tegucigalpa | 112,492 km² | 9,112,867 pop. (est. 2016) | 64/km² |
Mexico | Mexico City | 1,972,550 km² | 123,675,325 pop. (est. 2017) | 61/km² |
Panama | Panama | 75,417 km² | 4,034,119 pop. (est. 2016) | 56/km² |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | Basseterre | 261 km² | 54,821 pop. (est. 2016) | 164/km² |
Saint Lucia | Castries | 617 km² | 178,015 pop. (est. 2016) | 300/km² |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Kingstown | 389 km² | 109,643 pop. (est. 2016) | 307/km² |
Trinidad and Tobago | Port of Spain | 5,131 km² | 1,359,193 pop. (est. 2018) | 264/km² |
United States | Washington D. C. | 9,833,520 km² | 327,167,434 pop. (est. 2018) | 32.8/km² |