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Countries in North America

  • The BahamasThe Bahamas sits at an unusual crossroads of geography and identity. Officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, it comprises 700 islands and more than 2,500…
  • Antigua and BarbudaAntigua and Barbuda sits where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Caribbean Sea, a nation of two main islands and dozens of smaller ones covering just 440 square…
  • GrenadaGrenada is the smallest of the eastern Caribbean's spice nations, and yet its national flag carries a nutmeg. That single image hints at how much one tree…
  • Saint LuciaSaint Lucia holds a distinction unlike almost any other place on earth. This small island, covering just 617 square kilometres in the eastern Caribbean, has…
  • DominicaDominica is the only eastern Caribbean island that still has a population of pre-Columbian native Kalinago, the people who once called the island Wai'tu…
  • Saint Kitts and NevisSaint Kitts and Nevis holds a distinction that most people never think to wonder about: at just 261 square kilometres and roughly 48,000 inhabitants, it is…
  • El SalvadorEl Salvador sits at the western edge of Central America, the smallest and most densely packed country on the continental mainland, a place its own people…
  • GuatemalaThe name Guatemala comes from the Nahuatl word Cuauhtemallan, meaning "place of many trees." The Mexica first used it to describe a single Kaqchikel city…
  • HaitiHaiti is the only country in history established by a slave revolt. On the 1st of January 1804, in the town of Gonaives, the leaders of the Haitian…
  • GreenlandGreenland holds the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere: -69.6 C, measured near the topographic summit of its ice sheet on the 22nd…
  • CanadaCanada is the second-largest country in the world by total area, yet most of its people cluster in a thin band near a single neighbour.
  • JamaicaThe Ciboney people who first lived here called the island Xaymaca, a word meaning the Land of Wood and Water, or the Land of Springs.
  • United StatesThe United States of America first received its name in a letter dated the 2nd of January, 1776. Stephen Moylan, an aide to General George Washington, wrote…
  • MexicoMexico domesticated maize, the tomato, and beans, three plants that would feed much of the world. Human presence on this land reaches back at least to 8,000…
  • CubaCuba sits at the convergence of three bodies of water: the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean. An archipelago of more than four…