North America
Continent in the Americas
Also known as NA · Turtle Island · North and Central America · N. America · North American continent · North america
- Country
- none
1
- none
- Area
- 21.3M km²
1
Sources- 1.“7 Continents of the World”worldometers.info/geography/7-continents/Retrieved 2025-07-19
- , 24.9M km²
- 21.3M km²
- Population
- 617M(2025)
1
Sources- 1.“7 Continents of the World”worldometers.info/geography/7-continents/Retrieved 2025-07-19
- , 613M(2024)
- , 579M(2016)
- +1 more
- 617M(2025)
- Located in/on physical feature
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
269 statements · 21% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Part of
- Q828
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Brockhaus EnzyklopädieRetrieved 2021-06-01
- 2.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2021-06-01
- Q828
- Shares border with
- South America direction relative to location: south
- Q5401 direction relative to location: northwest
- Highest point
- Q130018 elevation: 6,190 m
1
Sources- 1.“7 (or 8) Summits: The World’s Highest Mountains by Continent | Britannica”britannica.com/story/7-or-8-summits-the-worlds-highest-mountains-by-continentRetrieved 2025-07-27
- Q130018 elevation: 6,190 m
- Number of out-of-school children
- 9,399,756(2015)
- 9,539,310(2014)
- 9,941,944(2013)
- 9,963,719(2012)
- 10.2M(2011)
- 10.1M(2010)
- 9,612,729(2009)
- 9,537,042(2008)
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- 9,547,859(2007)
- 10M(2006)
- 10.6M(2005)
- 11.2M(2004)
- 11M(2003)
- 11.8M(2002)
- 11.6M(2001)
- 12.1M(2000)
- 12.5M(1999)
- Geoshape
- Data:North America Flickr.map
- Short name
- 北米 name in kana: ほくべい · revised hepburn romanization: Hokubei
- 북미 revised romanization: Bungmi · mccune–reischauer romanization: Pungmi
- Coordinates of easternmost point
- 47.5236°N, 52.6194°W statement is subject of: Canada
- Coordinates of westernmost point
- 52.9211°N, 172.4371°E statement is subject of: United States
- Lowest point
- Q799720 elevation: -86 m
1
Sources- 1.“Badwater Basin | basin, California, United States | Britannica”britannica.com/place/Badwater-BasinRetrieved 2025-07-27
- Q799720 elevation: -86 m
On other databases
151 identifiers linking North America across the web's reference databases
- AGROVOC IDc_5219
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID2977
- Apple Maps "auid" identifier17460757687571588325
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID1964
- ArchINFORM location ID3067
- Archive of Our Own tagNorth America
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID294928995
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/4381
- BabelNet ID00058038n
- Basisklassifikation74.25
- BBC News topic IDcp35rmprpn5t
- BBC Things IDc044ed5b-4940-4abc-a8a0-295feb69e3f9
- BHCL UUIDa93d848e-547a-4cf6-8638-aeb6807ae238
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID15238493p
- British Museum place IDx27524
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDnordamerika
- CAB ID23585
- Curlie IDRegional/North_America/
- Data Commons IDnorthamerica
- DeCS ID9843
- Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts place IDPL000000058973
- DPLA subject termNorth America
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/North-America
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)4GpBkB
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)562360
- EU Knowledge Graph item IDQ196
- Euronews topic IDnorth-america
- European Education Thesaurus ID131
- EuroVoc ID1615
- FactGrid item IDQ248757
- Fallout Wiki IDNorth_America
- Famous Birthdays IDregion/northamerica
- Fandom article IDnaturerules1:North_America
- FAST ID1242475
- Freebase ID/m/059g4
- GACS ID7624
- GCMD keyword ID88bc8b39-ad19-4415-b426-e7d37450341a
- GEMET ID5693
- GeoNames ID6255149
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7029440
- Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)3035-1664
- Giant Bomb Wiki IDLocations/North_America
- GitHub topicnorth-america
- Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online IDNorth America
- GND ID4042483-2
- Google Arts & Culture entity IDm059g4
- Google Maps Customer ID1374486856923718530
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDamerica-del-nord
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0003493
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDNord-Amerika
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDsevernaia-amerika-a843ff
- Harper's tagnorth-america
- Hindustan Times topic IDnorth-america
- House Divided ID14463
- IAB code1223
- ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID30748
- IDAI.gazetteer ID2280204
- IdRef ID027218961
- IGI Global Dictionary ID64895
- ILO Thesaurus ID206
- IMDb keywordnorth-america
- INaturalist place ID97394
- Interlingual Index IDi85877
- J-GLOBAL ID200906056802208580
- J9U entity ID987007533972105171
- Joconde discovery IDT115-4268
- Joconde domain IDT51-115
- Joconde location IDT84-174
- KBpedia IDContinentOfNorthAmerica
- Klexikon article IDNordamerika
- KSW place ID100512
- KulturNav-IDf569a7c9-bab0-43c0-9b28-f584141d2bc7
- Larousse IDautre-region/Amérique_du_Nord/105175
- LC and MARC vocabularies IDgeographicAreas/n
- LEMAC IDLEMAC201224298
- Lex IDNordamerika
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85092455
- Lille norske leksikon IDNord-Amerika
- M49 code003
- Mapy.com IDosm&id=13485549
- Marine Regions Geographic ID1924
- McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia IDN/north-america
- Media Arts Database IDC35913
- MeSH concept IDM0014996
- MeSH descriptor IDD009656
- MeSH term IDT028732
- MeSH tree codeZ01.107.567
- MobyGames genre ID207
- Museum-digital place ID238
- NALT ID7527