Northern America

Northern America is the northernmost subregion of North America, as well as the northernmost region in the Americas. The boundaries may be drawn significantly differently depending on the source of the definition. In one definition, it lies directly north of Middle America.Gonzalez, Joseph. 2004. "Northern America: Land of Opportunity" (ch. 6). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Geography. () New York: Alpha Books; pp. 57–8 Northern America's land frontier with the rest of North America then coincides with the Mexico–United States border. Geopolitically, according to the United Nations' scheme of geographical regions and subregions, Northern America consists of Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and the United States (the contiguous United States and Alaska only, excluding Hawaii, Navassa Island, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, and other minor U.S. Pacific territories).Definition of major areas and regions, from World Migrant Stock: The 2005 Revision Population Database, United Nations Population Division. Accessed on line October 3, 2007.Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings, UN Statistics Division. Accessed online October 3, 2007. (French)

Definitions The Solemn Act of the Declaration of Independence of Northern America in 1813 applied to Mexico. Today, Northern America includes the Canada–US dyad, developed countries that exhibit very high Human Development Indexes and intense economic integration while sharing many socioeconomic characteristics.Torrey, Barbara Boyle & Eberstadt, Nicholas. 2005 (Aug./Sep.). "The Northern America Fertility Divide ." Hoover Institution Policy Review. No. 132.

The World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions has "Northern America" as the seventh of its nine "botanical continents". Its definition differs from the usual political one: Mexico is included, Bermuda is excluded (being placed in the Caribbean region), Hawaii is excluded (being placed in the Pacific botanical continent) and all of the Aleutian Islands, Russian as well as American, are included.

Countries and territories Country / Territory Population AreaUnless otherwise noted, land area figures are taken from Density Capital Bermuda Hamilton Canada Ottawa Greenland Nuuk Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint-Pierre United StatesIncludes the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is distant from the North American landmass in the Pacific Ocean and therefore more commonly associated with the other territories of Oceania. Washington, D.C.

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Demographics YearPopulation%changeCanada%United States%1950 172,603,000 — 13,733,000 8.0% 158,804,000 92.0%1960 204,649,000 +18.6% 17,847,000 8.7% 186,721,000 91.2%1970 230,992,000 +12.9% 21,374,000 9.3% 209,513,000 90.7%1980 254,007,000 +10.0% 24,417,000 9.6% 229,476,000 90.3%1990 279,785,000 +10.1% 27,541,000 9.8% 252,120,000 90.1%2000 312,427,000 +11.7% 30,588,000 9.8% 281,711,000 90.2%2010 343,287,000 +9.9% 34,148,000 9.9% 309,011,000 90.0%2020 368,870,000 +7.5% 37,742,000 10.2% 331,003,000 89.7%

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