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[6] [7] [8] When viewed as a single continent, the Americas or America is the 2nd largest continent right after Asia, and is the 3rd largest continent by population. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World. [3]
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. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
The world known to its population before contact with the "New World" (the Americas). Afro-Eurasia: 84,211,532: Largest contiguous landmass. Holarctic: 77,000,000: Biogeographic realm that encompasses the majority of habitats found throughout the northern continents of the world. Atlantic Ocean excluding adjacent seas: 76,762,000: Second ...
List of the largest-to-smallest continents by land area. ... America, according to the World Atlas. The U.S. and China have been head-to-head for the position of the third largest country in the ...
By total area (water as well as land), the United States is either slightly larger or smaller than the People's Republic of China, making it the world's third or fourth-largest country. Both countries are smaller than Russia and Canada in total area but are larger than Brazil. By land area only (exclusive of waters), the United States is the ...
North America is the third largest continent, ... With an estimated population of 580 million and an area of 24,709,000 km 2 ... the world's largest island, ...
Here’s a look at the largest parks on each continent. An explosion of new protected areas in the late 20th and early 21st centuries put the older generation of national parks to shame when it ...
North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), representing approximately 16.5% of the Earth's land area and 4.8% of its total surface area. It is the third-largest continent by size after Asia and Africa, and the fourth-largest continent by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe.