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Subject: India & World Geography
Topic: North America
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Latitude : 7° 12' N to 83° 38' N Longitude : 12° 08' W to 172° 30' W
Area : 24,709,000 sq. km (including Greenland and the Caribbean Islands).
Population : 533.8 million
Situation : North America is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean in the east, Gulf of Mexico in the south, the Pacific Ocean in the west and the Arctic Ocean in the north. To the north it is separated from the easternmost tip of Siberia by the Bering Strait.
Size : Third largest continent after Asia and Africa.
• 49° N latitude forms the boundary between Canada and U.S.A.
• The 100° W longitude divides North America into more or less two equal parts.