Geohistory. Countries of Americas. Some Facts about the Americas

The Americas consists of two continents, North America and South America. Central America and the Caribbean are considered part of North America.

America is shared by 35 sovereign states and several dependent territories.

North America or Northern America. It includes the world's largest island Greenland and the sovereign states of Canada and the United States.

The Caribbean region borders the Gulf of Mexico in the west, the Florida Straits in the north and the Northern Atlantic Ocean in the east. The largest islands in the Caribbean are Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad.

There are 8 countries in Central America namely Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Mexico.

South America borders the Pacific Ocean in the west, the Caribbean Sea in the northwest, the Atlantic Ocean in the north and east and the Southern Ocean in the south. South America's mainland is shared by twelve sovereign states: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) and one overseas department of France (French Guiana.)

The most populous countries in America are the USA with 329 million people and Brazil with 212 million.

Thousands of languages were spoken in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans. The major languages spoken today in the Americas are based on Spanish, English, Portuguese, some French and French-based creole, and a few Amerindian languages.

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