English Proper Noun The continent that is the northern half of the Americas. It is east of the Pacific Ocean, west of the Atlantic Ocean, north of South America and south of the Arctic Ocean. It contains the following countries: Mainland Canada Mexico United States Caribbean Anguilla (British dependency) Antigua and Barbuda Aruba (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) Bahamas Barbados Bermuda (British dependency) British Virgin Islands (British dependency) Cayman Islands (British dependency) Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Guadeloupe (overseas department of France) Haiti Jamaica Martinique (overseas department of France) Montserrat (British dependency) Netherlands Antilles (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) Puerto Rico (U.S. free associated state) Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands (British dependency) U.S. Virgin Islands (territory of the USA) Northern Atlantic Greenland the largest island in the world is a self-governing dependency of Denmark. Central America Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama Translations Dutch: Noord-Amerika n French: Amérique du Nord f German: Nordamerika n Italian: America del Nord f Japanese: 北アメリカ (kita amerika), 北米 (bokubei) Polish: Ameryka Północna Portuguese: América do Norte f Romanian: America de Nord f Russian: Северная Америка f Spanish: América del Norte f Swedish: Nordamerika
