NORTH AMERICA Definition & Meaning

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North America

noun

the northern continent of the Western Hemisphere, extending from Central America to the Arctic Ocean. Highest point, Denali, 20,300 feet (6,187 meters); lowest, Death Valley, 276 feet (84 meters) below sea level. About 9,360,000 square miles (24,242,400 square kilometers).

North America

noun

the third largest continent, linked with South America by the Isthmus of Panama and bordering on the Arctic Ocean, the N Pacific, the N Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean. It consists generally of a great mountain system (the Western Cordillera) extending along the entire W coast, actively volcanic in the extreme north and south, with the Great Plains to the east and the Appalachians still further east, separated from the Canadian Shield by an arc of large lakes (Great Bear, Great Slave, Winnipeg, Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario); reaches its greatest height of 6194 m (20 320 ft) in Mount McKinley, Alaska, and its lowest point of 85 m (280 ft) below sea level in Death Valley, California, and ranges from snowfields, tundra, and taiga in the north to deserts in the southwest and tropical forests in the extreme south. Pop: 332 156 000 (2005 est). Area: over 24 000 000 sq km (9 500 000 sq miles)

North America

Third-largest continent (after Asia and Africa ), comprising Canada , the United States, Mexico , and Central America .

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Other �y��vlog Forms

North American adjective noun

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of North America¹

First recorded in 1680–90

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“North America could wind up in a good position here,” O’Rourke said.

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However, Trump is taking an enormous risk upon which he is staking his presidency, our North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher writes.

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Last month, Trump briefly imposed 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, threatening the more than three decades of free trade between the countries that had helped turn North America into a commercial colossus.

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Trump looks at a map and thinks he can consolidate all of North America into the United States, perhaps even change the name to Trumplandia for all we know.

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The summit will deliver "concrete outcomes" for nations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and North America, according to the Home Office.

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