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Countries in North America

  • The BahamasChristopher Columbus made his first landfall in the New World on the 12th of October 1492 when he landed on an island he named San Salvador.
  • Antigua and BarbudaHunter-gatherers settled the islands starting around 3000 BC. They arrived on canoes from Central and South America. Carbon dating has established the…
  • GrenadaChristopher Columbus sighted the island of Grenada during his third voyage to the Americas in 1498. He named it La Concepción in honour of the Virgin Mary.
  • Saint LuciaArchaeological evidence places the first proven inhabitants of Saint Lucia, the Arawak people, on the island between 200 and 400 CE.
  • DominicaDominica first emerged from the sea during the Oligocene Epoch approximately 27 million years ago. It stands as one of the last Caribbean islands to be…
  • Saint Kitts and NevisThe Kalinago people called the island Liamuiga, which translates to fertile land. They arrived around 1300 CE and displaced earlier agricultural societies…
  • El SalvadorThe Pleistocene epoch left behind the bones of giant ground sloths and rhinoceros-like Mixotoxodon in what is now El Salvador.
  • GuatemalaThe first evidence of human habitation in Guatemala dates to 12,000 BC. Archaeological sites like Sipacate and Escuintla on the central Pacific coast reveal…
  • HaitiOn the 6th of December 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on the northeastern coast of Hispaniola and named the area Môle-Saint-Nicolas.
  • GreenlandIn the summer of 986, a Norwegian exile named Erik the Red set sail from Iceland with his family and thralls. He explored an icy land to the northwest that…
  • CanadaIn 1534, French explorer Jacques Cartier planted a cross on the shores of Gaspé Bay and declared possession of New France in the name of King Francis I.
  • JamaicaChristopher Columbus first set foot on the island in 1494 during his second voyage to the Americas. He claimed the land for Spain and named it Santiago.
  • United StatesPaleo-Indians first migrated from North Asia to North America at least 15,000 years ago. They crossed the Bering land bridge or followed submerged Ice Age…
  • MexicoHuman presence in Mexico dates back to at least 8,000 BC. The earliest stone tools found in the Valley of Mexico are chips dated to circa 10,000 years ago.
  • CubaCuba is an archipelago of 4,195 islands, cays and islets located in the northern Caribbean Sea at the convergence of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic…