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Countries in North America

  • The BahamasIn 1841, enslaved people who revolted on the US brig Creole steered it to Nassau in the Bahamas.
  • Antigua and BarbudaHurricane Irma forced nearly all of Barbuda's residents to flee in September 2017.
  • GrenadaGrenada put a nutmeg on its flag. The Caribbean island nation is nicknamed the Island of Spice.
  • Saint LuciaBritain and France fought over Saint Lucia fourteen times. The Caribbean island earned the nickname "Helen of the West."
  • DominicaDominica has had no standing army since 1981, after two coup attempts. The mercenaries' ship never left dock.
  • Saint Kitts and NevisSaint Kitts and Nevis is the smallest sovereign state in the Western Hemisphere. Its two islands are volcanic.
  • El SalvadorEl Salvador made bitcoin legal tender in 2021, the first country to do so.
  • GuatemalaGuatemala's name once meant a single city, not a country.
  • HaitiHaiti is the only country in history established by a slave revolt.
  • Dominican RepublicThe Dominican Republic holds both the tallest mountain peak in the Caribbean and its lowest point. Pico Duarte rises 3098 metres above sea level, and snow has been seen on its summit on rare occasions. Lake Enriquillo, a salt lake, lies 45…
  • GreenlandThe United States secretly tried to build nuclear missile sites inside Greenland's ice cap.
  • BarbadosOn the 30th of November 2021, Barbados swore in its first president, Sandra Mason, at a ceremony in Bridgetown. Prince Charles, then heir to the Barbadian crown, attended at the government's invitation. With that oath, the island stopped…
  • CanadaCanada's name began as a word for a village. In 1535, locals used it to point Jacques Cartier to Stadacona.
  • JamaicaJamaica has sometimes been called the world's least populous cultural superpower. Reggae and Rastafari began there.
  • United StatesThe name United States first appeared in a 1776 letter. The country it named did not yet exist.
  • MexicoMexico domesticated maize, the tomato and beans, three plants that feed much of the world.
  • CubaIn 1956, Fidel Castro and about eighty supporters landed in Cuba from the yacht Granma to start a rebellion.

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