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Usage of the term North America

The term "North America" is used in several different contexts and differs in extent depending on where it is used. Will this chapter promote and represent a list of states, the northern part of the continent or how will it be defined?

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Definition of North America in the English language Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America#Usage_of_the_term_North_America

The term North America maintains various definitions in accordance with location and context. In English, North America may be used to refer to the United States and Canada together.Alternatively, usage sometimes includes Greenland and Mexico (as in the North American Free Trade Agreement), as well as offshore islands. In Ibero-America and other parts of Europe, North America usually designates a subcontinent of the Americas containing Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and often Greenland, Saint Pierre et Miquelon, and Bermuda. North America has been historically referred to by other names. Spanish North America (New Spain) was often referred to as Northern America, and this was the first official name given to Mexico. Outside of North America, going into the twentieth century, the whole American continent (North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean) was referred simply as "America" or "The Americas", one of the "Five Continents" (the other four being, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania).

Definition in the Encyclopedia of The Free Dictionary

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North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. North America includes all of the mainland and related offshore islands lying N of the Isthmus of Panama (which connects it with South America). The term Anglo-America is frequently used in reference to Canada and the United States combined, while the term "Middle America" is used to describe the region including Mexico, the republics of Central America, and the Caribbean.

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