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Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water.
Below is a list of countries and dependencies in North America by area. [1] The region includes Canada, the Caribbean, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Central America, Greenland, Mexico, and the United States. Canada is the largest country in North America and the Western Hemisphere.
North America: 595,783,465: 7.5%: 0.96% 23 0 7 11 South America: 434,254,119: 5.5%: 1.06% 12 0 1 3 ... Australia and New Zealand [p] 31,050,816: 0.4% N/A 2 0 0 4 ...
Where the Americas are viewed as a single continent (America), it is divided into two subcontinents (North America and South America) [67] [68] [69] or three (Central America being the third). [ 70 ] [ 71 ] When Eurasia is regarded as a single continent, Asia and Europe are treated as subcontinents.
Australia is the only First World country on the Australia-New Guinea continent, although the economy of Australia is by far the largest and most dominant economy in the region and one of the largest in the world. Australia's per-capita GDP is higher than that of the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and France in terms of purchasing power ...
The Columbia is a large river, 1,243 miles (2,000 km) long, in central western North America and is the most powerful river on the West Coast of the Americas. In the far northwest of North America, the Yukon drains much of the Alaskan peninsula and flows 1,980 miles (3,190 km) [71] from
Australia is the largest country in Oceania while Nauru is the smallest. Country / dependency % total Oceania area ... American Samoa : 0.002%: 199 (77) 12
Australia's size gives it a wide variety of landscapes, with tropical rainforests in the north-east, mountain ranges in the south-east, south-west and east, and desert in the centre. [173] The desert or semi-arid land commonly known as the outback makes up by far the largest portion of land. [174]