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Article: Map of North America.
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- Junior Scholastic
- Article date:
- October 15, 2001
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With a land area of more than 9 million square miles, North America is the third-largest continent. Only Asia and Africa are larger. Mountain chains line the entire western edge of the continent. North America's varied terrain includes the Rocky Mountains in the west, the Appalachians in the east, the huge Hudson Bay, five Great Lakes, the Mississippi River system, massive plateaus and deserts, and the Great Plains. The continent stretches from the cold Arctic to the tropics. North America includes Greenland, the world's largest island, the seven small countries of Central America, and the many island countries of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. The Panama Canal ...
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