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Northern America

Northernmost subregion of North America

Northernmost subregion of North America

FieldValue
titleNorthern America
imageNorthern America (orthographic projection).svg
area21780142 km2
population( est.)
density16.5 /km2
demonymNorthern American
GDP_nominal$27.5 trillion (2022)
countries{{Collapsible list
title2
dependencies{{Collapsible list
title3
languagesEnglish, French, Spanish, Danish, Greenlandic, and various recognized regional languages
timeUTC−10:00 (west Aleutians) to UTC+00:00 (Danmarkshavn, Greenland)
cities{{Collapsible list
titlestylebackground:transparent;text-align:left;font-weight:normal;
title10 largest cities in Northern America (2015)
m49`021` – Northern America
`003` – North America
`019` – Americas
`001` – World
Note
Note

the region comprising Canada, Greenland, and the United States

| Canada | United States (except Hawaii) | Bermuda (United Kingdom) | Greenland (Denmark) | Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)}} |

  1. USA New York
  2. USA Los Angeles
  3. CAN Toronto
  4. USA Chicago
  5. USA Houston
  6. CAN Montreal
  7. USA Philadelphia
  8. USA Phoenix
  9. USA San Antonio
  10. USA San Diego 003 – North America 019 – Americas 001 – World

Northern America is the northernmost subregion of North America, as well as the northernmost region in the Americas. The boundaries may be drawn significantly differently depending on the source of the definition. In one definition, it lies directly north of Middle America. Northern America's land frontier with the rest of North America then coincides with the Mexico–United States border. Geopolitically, according to the United Nations' scheme of geographical regions and subregions, Northern America consists of Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and the United States (the contiguous United States and Alaska only, excluding Hawaii, Navassa Island, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, and other minor U.S. Pacific territories).

Definitions

Maps using the term Northern America date back to 1755, when the region was occupied by France, Great Britain, and Spain. The Solemn Act of the Declaration of Independence of Northern America in 1813 applied to Mexico. Today, Northern America includes the Canada–US dyad, developed countries that exhibit very high Human Development Indexes and intense economic integration while sharing many socioeconomic characteristics.

The World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions has "Northern America" as the seventh of its nine "botanical continents". Its definition differs from the usual political one: Mexico is included, Bermuda is excluded (being placed in the Caribbean region), Hawaii is excluded (being placed in the Pacific botanical continent) and all of the Aleutian Islands, Russian as well as American, are included.

Countries and territories

Country / TerritoryPopulationArea
(km)Density
(people
per km)CapitalBermuda BermudaCanada CanadaGreenland GreenlandSaint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Pierre and MiquelonUnited States United States
Hamilton
Ottawa
Nuuk
Saint-Pierre
Washington, D.C.

***** indicates "Demographics of country or territory" links.

Demographics

YearPopulation%
changeCanada%United States%
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
2020

References

References

  1. "April 2022 GDP Report for Canada and United States".
  2. 1592571883) New York: Alpha Books; pp. 57–8
  3. [http://esa.un.org/migration/index.asp?panel=3 Definition of major areas and regions], from World Migrant Stock: The 2005 Revision Population Database, United Nations Population Division. Accessed on line October 3, 2007.
  4. [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings], UN Statistics Division. Accessed online October 3, 2007. ([http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regnf.htm French])
  5. Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas. (n.d.). "Carte de l'Amerique septentrionale (Map of Northern America, 1755)". [[Library and Archives Canada]].
  6. Torrey, Barbara Boyle & Eberstadt, Nicholas. 2005 (Aug./Sep.). "[http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/2931351.html The Northern America Fertility Divide] {{webarchive. link. (2007-11-07 ." ''[[Hoover Institution]] [[Policy Review]].'' No. 132.)
  7. Brummitt, R.K.. (2001). "World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions: Edition 2". International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases For Plant Sciences (TDWG).
  8. (2008). "Demographic Yearbook—Table 3: Population by sex, rate of population increase, surface area and density". United Nations Statistics Division.
  9. Includes the [[U.S. state]] of [[Hawaii]], which is distant from the North American landmass in the [[Pacific Ocean]] and therefore more commonly associated with the other territories of [[Oceania]].
  10. "World Population Prospects".
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