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Geography

•  Great Plains: A large area of semi-arid grasslands located east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Mississippi River and extending from Texas northwards into southern Canada. ^[e]
•  Appalachian Mountains: North American mountain chain of 2,000+ miles going from central Alabama to Newfoundland, parallel to the Atlantic Ocean, short, rugged, bunched up, a barrier to early European settlers, subject to strip mining and mountaintop removal, and home to the iconic "AT" hiking trail. ^[e]

Large countries

• Canada [r]: The world's second-largest country by total area, occupying most of northern North America; officially a bilingual nation, in English and French (population approx. 27 million). ^[e]
• United States of America [r]: a large nation in middle North America with a republic of fifty semi-independent states, a nation since 1776. ^[e]
• Mexico [r]: A country in North America, bordering the United States of America on the north and Guatemala and Belize on the south. ^[e]

Smaller countries

Antigua and Barbuda [r]: Independent nation in the Caribbean and part of the Commonwealth of Nations. [e] Bahamas [r]: Add brief definition or description Barbados [r]: Island east of the Caribbean, an independent state within the British Commonwealth, whose principal source of income is tourism. [e] Belize [r]: Country (formerly known as British Honduras) located in Central America, bordering Mexico to the north and Guatemala to the west and south, whose capital city is Belmopan. [e] Costa Rica [r]: Democratic third world nation located south of Nicaragua, north of Panama, east of the Pacific Ocean and west of the Caribbean Sea. [e] Cuba [r]: a Communist state made up of a number of islands in the Caribbean. [e] Dominica [r]: Commonwealth island republic, in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, formerly a British Crown Colony. [e] Dominican Republic [r]: Republic on the eastern-side of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, part of the Greater Antilles. [e] El Salvador [r]: Republic in Central America, one of the smallest but most densely populated in the region. [e] Grenada [r]: Island country consisting of the island of Grenada and six islets at the southern end of the Grenadines in the south-eastern Caribbean Sea. [e] Guatemala [r]: Country in Central America that shares borders with Mexico to the north and west, Belize to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the south. [e]

Haiti [r]: Caribbean country, capital Port-au-Prince, covering the western part of the island of Hispaniola; population about 10,000,000. [e] Honduras [r]: Central American republic (capital Tegucigalpa) with an economy built on agriculture and peoples of mixed European and Amerindian descent; has the world's highest murder rate and high levels of poverty (population about 8.5 million). [e] Jamaica [r]: Caribbean island nation that became independent in 1962; formerly part of the British Empire and built on the slave trade (population about 2.8 million). [e] Nicaragua [r]: Country of Latin America, formerly a British colony. [e] Panama [r]: Republic in Central America, bounded by Colombia to the east, Costa Rica to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. [e] Saint Kitts and Nevis [r]: Sovereign federated state located in the Lesser Antilles in the east Caribbean, comprising the islands of Saint Kitts (Saint Christopher) and the smaller Nevis. [e] Saint Lucia [r]: Sovereign federated state located in the Lesser Antilles in the east Caribbean, and the second largest island in the Windward Islands group. [e] Saint Vincent and the Grenadines [r]: Sovereign federated state located in the Lesser Antilles in the east Caribbean, consisting of the island of Saint Vincent and a chain of smaller islands within the Windward Islands group called the Grenadines. [e] Trinidad and Tobago [r]: Republic located at the southern end of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, along the north coast of South America. [e]

Continents

• South America [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Africa [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Antarctica [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Australia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Asia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Europe [r]: Add brief definition or description