North America
North America is the northern part of the American double continent. To the north lies the Arctic Ocean, to the east the Atlantic Ocean, to the south the Caribbean Sea and to the west the Pacific Ocean. North America is the third largest continent on earth after Asia and Africa and covers an area of 24,930,000 km² including Greenland, the Central American land bridge and the Caribbean. From a geological point of view, part of Iceland and eastern Siberia up to the Chersky Mountains also belong to North America.
North America has about 605 million inhabitants and is the most urbanized part of the world with 81 percent (as of 2014), the largest metropolises include Mexico City, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto.
South America and North America were named after Amerigo Vespucci. He was the first to come to the conclusion that the land Christopher Columbus discovered and considered India was a separate continent. Connecting North and South America is the isthmus of Panama. Occasionally Central America is referred to as a separate continent, but the prevailing opinion is that it is a region such as Western Europe and is part of North America.
The Pan-Indian name for North America is „Turtle Island.“ The term originated in the Algonquian and Iroquoian languages and goes back to creation myths that tell how the continent came into being on the back of a turtle. Then, as now, the term is closely associated with the spiritual ties of North American Indians to their homeland.
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