Countries and Capitals: North America

North America

Countries and Capitals

North America

Countries and Capitals: North America

North America is the Continent which has 23 countries with 7.5% of the world population.

This is a Continent completely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere. North America has an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), about 16.5% of the earth's land area. Arctic Ocean is in the North of the continent, to the east it is borders with the Atlantic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea.

The Americas is named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Vespucci, explored South America between 1497 and 1502, he was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, its different landmass altogether.

NORTH AMERICA

Country	Capital	Currency	Population
Antigua and Barbuda	St. John's	East Caribbean dollar	89,000
Bahamas	Nassau	Bahamian dollar	379,000
Barbados	Bridgetown	Barbadian dollar	283,000
Belize	Belmopan	Belize dollar	369,000
Canada	Ottawa	Canadian dollar	35,819,000
Costa Rica	San José	Costa Rican colon	4,851,000
Cuba	Havana	Cuban peso	11,252,000
Dominica	Roseau	East Caribbean dollar	71,000
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	Dominican Peso	9,980,000
El Salvador	San Salvador	United States dollar	6,460,000
Grenada	St. George's	East Caribbean dollar	104,000
Guatemala	Guatemala City	Guatemalan quetzal	16,176,000
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	Haitian gourde	10,994,000
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	Honduran lempira	8,950,000
Jamaica	Kingston	Jamaican dollar	2,729,000
Mexico	Mexico City	Mexican Peso	121,006,000
Nicaragua	Managua	Nicaraguan Córdoba	6,514,000
Panama	Panama City	Panamanian balboa, United States dollar	3,764,000
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	East Caribbean dollar	46,000
Saint Lucia	Castries	East Caribbean dollar	172,000
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	East Caribbean dollar	110,000
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	Trinidad and Tobago dollar	1,357,000
United States	Washington, D.C.	United States dollar	321,234,000