Northern America

Area	21 780 142 km²
Population	334 659 631 (Jul. 2007 est.)http://www.xist.org/earth/pop_region.aspx
States
Dependencies
GDP	$12.776 478 3 trillion (PPP, 2005 est.)http://www.xist.org/earth/ec_gdp4.aspx
Major languages	English, Spanish, French, Danish, Greenlandic, and various Recognised regional languages.
Time zones	UTC (Danmarkshavn, Greenland) to UTC -10:00 (west Aleutians)
Largest urban agglomerations

Northern America is the northernmost region of the Americas, and is part of the North American continent. It lies directly north of the region of Middle America; the land border between the two regions coincides with the border between the United States and Mexico. It should not be confused with the term North America, which does include Mexico. Geopolitically, according to the scheme of geographic regions and subregions used by the United Nations, Northern America consists of:^[1][2]

Canada

United States

Greenland, a self-governing island of Denmark

Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, an overseas territory of France

Bermuda, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom

Definitions

Maps using the term Northern America (L'Amerique septentrionale in French) date back to 1755, when the region was occupied by France, Great Britain, and Spain.^[3] Today, Northern America includes the Canada-US dyad, developed countries that exhibit very high human development and intense economic integration while sharing many socioeconomic characteristics, including relatively low but increasingly divergent demographic patterns (e.g., fertility levels).^[4]

Hawaii is a US state located in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental US on the North American mainland. Physiographically and ethnologically, the Hawaiian archipelago is often included with the other Polynesian territories of Oceania.

Sources

See also

• Americas (terminology)
• Anglo-America

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