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The following is a list of sovereign countries and dependent territories in North America, a continent that covers the landmass north of the Colombia-Panama border as well as the islands of the Caribbean.
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions and dependent territories overseen by the federal government of the United States.The American territories differ from the U.S. states and Indian reservations in that they are not sovereign entities.
This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas.It comprises three regions, Northern America (Canada and the United States), the Caribbean (cultural region of the English, French, Dutch, and Creole speaking countries located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese).
Anguilla* Antigua and Barbuda* Aruba* Bahamas* Barbados* Belize* Bermuda* Bonaire* British Virgin Islands* Canada* Cayman Islands* Clipperton Island* Costa Rica*
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.
For a table of sovereign states and dependent territories in North America with geographical data such as area, population, and population density, see North America: countries and territories. Geologically, North America is joined with South America by the Isthmus of Panama to form the Americas.
As the United States has grown in area and population, new states have been formed out of U.S. territories or the division of existing states. The population figures provided here reflect modern state boundaries. Shaded areas of the tables indicate census years when a territory or the part of another state had not yet been admitted as a new state.