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NORTH AMERICA
Countries	Area (Sq. km.)	Location & Borders	Coast Line (km)	Geography - note
Canada	9,976,140	Lies to north of USA; 8,893 km (including Alaska)	202,080	Longest unguarded border with USA.
United States of America		Canada 8,893 km (including 2,477 km with Alaska), Mexico 3,141 km;	19,924	US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is leased by the US and thus remains part of Cuba; the base boundary is 29 km.
Mexico	1,972,550	Middle America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico (E), between Belize and the US and bordering the North Pacific Ocean (W),  between Guatemala and the US	9330	corn (maize is thought to have originated in Mexico
Belize	22,966	Middle America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Mexico	386
Guatemala	108,890	Middle America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean (W), between Mexico (N) and El Salvador (S), and bordering  Belize (E), Gulf of Honduras (Caribbean Sea) and Honduras (SE)	400	No natural harbours on west coast
El Salvador	21,040	Middle America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and Honduras	307
Honduras	112,090	Middle America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala (N) and Nicaragua (S) and bordering the Gulf of Fonseca (North Pacific Ocean) and Nicaragua (S)	820	has only a short Pacific coast but a long Caribbean shoreline, including the virtually uninhabited eastern Mosquito Coast
Nicaragua	129,494	Middle America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea (E) and the North Pacific Ocean (W), between Honduras (N) and Costa Rica (S)	910	largest country in Central America; contains the largest freshwater body in Central America, Lago de Nicaragua
Costa Rica	51,100	Middle America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Nicaragua (N) and Panama (S)	1,290	four volcanoes, two of them active in the centre of the country
Panama	78,200	Middle America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Costa Rica (N) and Colombia (S)	2,490	Panama Canal passes mid-way through the country; land bridge connecting North and South America.
Islands
Bahamas	13,940	chain of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida, northeast of Cuba	3,542
Cuba	110,860	Islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, 150 km south Florida	3,735	largest country in Caribbean and westernmost island of the Greater Antilles
Jamaica	11,000	Caribbean islands south of Cuba
Haiti	27,750	Caribbean, one-third of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Dominican Republic	1,771
Dominican Republic	48,730	Eastern Caribbean, two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; Boundary with Haiti	1,288
Antigua & Barbuda	443	Islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean	153
St. Kitts-Nevis	261	islands in the Caribbean Sea	135	St. Kitts and Nevis are two islands separated by a 3 km narrow channel.
Dominica	754	island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; known as "The Nature Island of the Caribbean" due to its spectacular, lush, and varied flora and fauna, which are protected by an extensive natural park system	148	the most mountainous of the Lesser Antilles, its volcanic peaks are cones of lava craters and include Boiling Lake, the second-largest, thermally active lake in the world
St. Lucia	616	island between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago	158
Barbados	431	Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean	97	easternmost Caribbean island
St. Vincent & The Grenadines	389	islands between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago	84	comprised of 32 islands and cays
Grenada	344	island between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinidad and Tobago	121
Trinidad & Tobago	5,128	The country consists of two islands: Trinidad (4,828 sq km) and Tobago (300 sq km). Lying just north of the Orinoco River delta in Venezuela;	362	Pitch Lake, in the southwest, is the world's largest (46 hectares) basin of natural asphalt.