North America Countries Name

Antigua and Barbuda (Spanish for Ancient and Bearded) is an island nation located in the eastern Caribbean Sea, on the sea's boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. There are two major islands - Antigua  and Barbuda, which are close neighbors within the middle of the Leeward Islands, roughly 17 degrees north of the equator.

Aruba is a 33-kilometre (21 mi)-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, 27 km (17 mi) north of the Paraguaná Peninsula, Falcón State, Venezuela. A country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Aruba has no administrative subdivisions. Unlike much of the Caribbean region, Aruba has a dry climate and an arid, cactus-strewn landscape.

The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is a North American, English-speaking country consisting of two thousand cays and seven hundred islands that form an archipelago. It is located in the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida and the United States, north of Cuba, the island of Hispanola and the Caribbean, and northwest of the British overseas territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Barbados (Spanish for beardeds, pronounced), situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent island nation in the western Atlantic Ocean. At roughly 13° North of the equator and 59° West of the prime meridian, the country lies in the southern Caribbean region, where it is measured a part of the Lesser Antilles island-chain. Its closest island neighbours are Saint Vincent & the Grenadines and Saint Lucia to the west. 

Belize (pronounced) is a country in Central America. It is the only officially English speaking country in the region. A British colony for more than a century, it was known as British Honduras until 1973, and became an independent nation in 1981. Belize is a member of the Caribbean group of people (CARICOM), the Sistema de Integración Centroamericana (SICA), and the Commonwealth of Nations. With 8,867 square miles (22,960 km²).

Bermuda North America, group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, east of South Carolina (US). Bermuda (officially, The Bermuda Islands or The Somers Isles) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated around 1770 km (1,100 mi) northeast of Miami, Florida, and 1350 km (840 mi) south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) is a British abroad country, located in the Caribbean to the east of Puerto Rico. The islands make up part of the Virgin Islands archipelago, the remaining islands constituting the U.S. Virgin Islands. Technically the name of the Territory is just the "Virgin Islands", but in practice since 1917 they have been almost generally referred to as the "British Virgin Islands" to distinguish the islands from the American Territory. To add to the regional bewilderment, the Puerto Rican islands of Culebra, Vieques and nearby islands began referring to themselves as the "Spanish Virgin Islands" as part of a tourism drive in the early 2000s.

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area, and shares land borders with the United States to the south and northwest.

The land occupied by Canada was inhabited for millennia by various aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled the Atlantic coast. France ceded almost all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal control of four provinces. This began an accretion of extra provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom, highlighted by the Statute of Westminster in 1931 and bring to a close in the Canada Act in 1982 which detached the vestiges of legal trust on the British parliament.

The Cayman Islands are a British overseas country located in the western Caribbean Sea, comprising the islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman. It is an offshore financial centre and one of the leading tourist scuba diving destinations in the world.

The Virtual shores of the Cayman Islands. The Cayman Islands are located in the Western Caribbean just a one-hour flight from Miami. Made up of three islands; Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. A small, beautiful, and very lively British Crown Colony in the Western Caribbean, we are famed for our golden beaches, our fabulous diving, our crystal clear waters, our tax free status, our year-round Caribbean sunshine and our friendly locals who will welcome you anytime.

Clipperton Island (French: Île de Clipperton and as the real French name Île de la Passion) is a nine-square-kilometre coral atoll in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Costa Rica, at [show location on an interactive map] 10°18′N 109°13′W / 10.3, -109.217Coordinates: [show location on an interactive map] 10°18′N 109°13′W / 10.3, -109.217. It has no enduring inhabitants. It is an overseas possession of France administered by the Minister of Overseas France.

Clipperton Island lies about 945 km (587 mi, 510 nmi) from Socorro island in the Revillagigedo archipelago, Mexico, the nearest land. The ring-shaped island has completely enclosed its lagoon for approximately a century and is 12 km in circumference. The lagoon has some deep basins (−43 m, −22 m) and one deep spot ("Trou-Sans-Fond", meaning bottomless hole) with acidic water (sulphuric acid) at the bottom and is stagnant. The pond is devoid of fish. Clipperton Rock, at 29 m, is the highest point. It is a volcanic projection located in the southeast.

Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica (Spanish: Costa Rica or República de Costa Rica, Spanish pronunciation: is a state in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the east-southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, and the Caribbean Sea to the east. Costa Rica was the first state in the world to constitutionally abolish its army. Among Latin American countries, Costa Rica ranks 4th in terms of the 2007 Human Development Index, and 48th worldwide.Costa Rica is ranked 5th in the world in terms of the 2008 Environmental presentation Index, up from the 15th place in 2006. In 2007 the government of Costa Rica stated that they want to be the first country to become carbon neutral by 2021.

The Republic of Cuba , Spanish: Cuba (help·info) or República de Cuba (help·info) Spanish pronunciation: , consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles), Isla de la Juventud and more than a few adjacent small islands. Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean at the flowing together of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Cuba is south of the eastern United States and The Bahamas, west of the Turks and Caicos Islands and Haiti and east of Mexico. The Cayman Islands and Jamaica are to the south. The national flower is Hedychium coronarium J. Koenig, most frequently known as "flor de mariposa" (Butterfly Flower) and the national bird is "Tocororo" or Cuban Trogon from the family of Trogonidae.

The Commonwealth of Dominica, more often than not known as Dominica (French: Dominique), is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. The name is pronounced (dom-in-EE-cuh). In Latin, its name means "Sunday", which was the day on which it was discovered by Columbus.

Dominica's pre-Columbian name was Wai'tu kubuli, which means "Tall is her body". The native people of the island, the Caribs, have a territory similar to the Indian reserves of North America. Because the island lies between two French abroad departments, Guadeloupe to the north and Martinique to the south, and because it was occupied by France for a time, it is sometimes called "French Dominica". However, its administrator language is English, although a French creole is usually spoken.

The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana, Spanish pronunciation: is a nation located in the Caribbean region. It is on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago. Hispaniola lies west of Puerto Rico and east of Cuba and Jamaica. The western third of Hispaniola is the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are busy by two countries, Saint Martin being the other.

The Dominican Republic is the site of the first permanent European settlement in the Americas, its capital Santo Domingo, which was also the first colonial capital in the Americas. It is the site of the first church, university, European-built road, European-built fortress, and more.

El Salvador (República de El Salvador) is a country in Central America, Originally called by The Pipilt (Mayan People) "Cuzhcatl", in Spanish “Cuzcatlan” which in Nahuatl means “The Land Of valuable Things”. After the Spanish take-over the land was baptized by Spanish conquistadors as “Provincia De Nuestro Señor Jesucristo El Salvador Del Mundo”, (“Province Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, The Savior Of The World”) Now just shortened “Republica de El Salvador”. The country borders the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras. With a inhabitants of about more than 6 million people, the small nation is undergo rapid industrialization.

Greenland is a self-governing Danish province located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically and racially an Arctic island nation associated with the continent of North America, politically and historically Greenland is intimately tied to Europe, specially Iceland, Norway, and Denmark. In 1978, Denmark granted home rule to Greenland, making it an corresponding member of the Rigsfællesskab. Greenland is the world's largest island and largest colony by area.

Grenada is an island nation in the southeastern Caribbean Sea including the southern Grenadines. Grenada is located north of Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, and south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The national bird of Grenada is the critically endangered Grenada Dove.

generally known as 'The Spice Isle' because of an abundance of locally full-grown spices and a culture of music, dance and food built into the image of 'spice of life', Grenada is also a well-known tourist destination.

Guadeloupe is an island group or archipelago located in the eastern Caribbean Sea at [show location on an interactive map] 16°15′N 61°35′WCoordinates: [show location on map] 16°15′N 61°35′W, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres (629 sq. mi). It is an overseas department of France. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe is also one of the twenty-six regions of France (being an overseas region) and an integral part of the Republic. As part of France, Guadeloupe is part of the European Union; hence its currency is the euro. Guadeloupe is however not party to the Schengen Agreement. The capital of Guadeloupe is Basse-Terre.

Guatemala (Spanish: República de Guatemala, Spanish pronunciation: is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the northwest, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast. A representative democratic system, its capital is Guatemala City. The nation has been moderately stable since 1996 and has been in a state of continuous growth and economic growth. Guatemala's great quantity of biologically important and unique ecosystems add to Mesoamerica's designation as a biodiversity hotspot.

Haiti (English pronounced; French Haïti pronounced [aiti]; Haitian Creole: Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti (Republique d'Haïti ; Repiblik d Ayiti), is a French and Creole speaking Latin American country located on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic, in the Greater Antilles archipelago. Ayiti (Land of Mountains) was the native Taíno or Amerindian name for the island. The country's highest point is Pic la Selle, at 2,680 metres (8,793 ft). The total area of Haiti is 27,750 square kilometres (10,714 sq mi) and its capital is Port-au-Prince.

Honduras in Spanish, República de Honduras Spanish pronunciation: is a democratic republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize). The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, 234 kilometres (146 mi) in length and as much as 80 kilometres (50 mi) in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about 620 kilometres (385 mi) northeast of the Central American mainland, 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 190 kilometres (120 mi) west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated. Its indigenous Arawakan-speaking Taíno inhabitants named the island Xaymaca, meaning the "Land of Wood and Water", or the "Land of Springs". before a Spanish control known as Santiago, it later became the British West Indies Crown colony of Jamaica. It is the third most populous anglophone country in the Americas, after the United States and Canada.

Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, having a land area of 1,128 km². It is an overseas department of France. As with the other overseas departments, Martinique is also one of the twenty-six regions of France (being an overseas region) and an integral part of the Republic. As part of France, Martinique is part of the European Union, and its currency is the euro. Its official language is French, though roughly all of its population also speak Antillean Creole. Martinique is pictured on all euro banknotes, on the reverse at the bottom of each note, right of the Greek ΕΥΡ (EURO) next to the denomination.

The United Mexican States (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos (help·info)), or commonly Mexico  (Spanish: México Spanish accent:), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of MexicoThe United Mexican States is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a federal district, the capital Mexico City, whose metropolitan area is one of the world's most populous.

Covering almost 2 million square kilometers, Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest in the world. With an predictable population of 109 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world.

Montserrat is a British overseas country located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. It measures about 16 km (10 miles) long and 11 km (7 miles) wide, giving 40 kilometres (25 mi) of coastline. Montserrat was given its name by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1493, after its namesake located in Catalonia. Montserrat is often referred to as the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean, due both to its resemblance to coastal Ireland and to the Irish descent of most of its in the early hours European settlers.

Navassa Island (French: La Navase, Haitian Kreyol: Lanavaz or Lavash) is a small, abandoned island in the Caribbean Sea, and is an unorganized unincorporated territory of the United States, which administers it through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The island is deliberation to have been claimed by Haiti preceding to being claimed by the United States, as far back as 1801.

The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen), until that time known as the Netherlands West Indies or Dutch Antilles/West Indies, is part of the Lesser Antilles and consists of two groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea: Curaçao and Bonaire, just off the Venezuelan coast, and Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, located southeast of the Virgin Islands. The islands form an sovereign part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The islands' economy depends mostly upon tourism, international financial services, international trade and shipping and fuel.m The Netherlands Antilles is scheduled to be dissolved as a united political entity so that the five element islands will attain new constitutional statuses within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Nicaragua legitimately the Republic of Nicaragua (Spanish: República de Nicaragua (help·info), Spanish pronunciation: is a representative democratic republic and the largest nation in Central America. It is also the least densely occupied with a demographic similar in size to its lesser neighbors. The country is bordered by Honduras to the north and by Costa Rica to the south. The Pacific Ocean lies to the west of the country, while the Caribbean Sea lies to the east. Falling within the tropics, Nicaragua sits 11 degrees north of the Equator, in the Northern Hemisphere.

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama (Spanish: República de Panamá; IPA is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on an isthmus, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation connecting the north and south part of America. It borders Costa Rica to the north-west, Colombia to the south-east, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. It is an international business center and is also a transit country. In Central America, it is the most industrialized country. Although Panama is also the 3rd main economy in Central America, after Guatemala and Costa Rica, it has by far the most developed economy and has the largest spending on reserve expenditure, making the country the largest customer in Central America.

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: "Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" [literally, English: "Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"]), is a semi-autonomous territory of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands. The territory is composed of an archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto Rico and a number of lesser islands and keys, the main of which are Vieques, Culebra, and Mona. The main island of Puerto Rico is the negligible by land area but third major by population among the four Greater Antilles.

Saint Barthélemy, legitimately the Collectivity of Saint Barthélemy, is an overseas collectivity of France. Also known as Saint Barts, Saint Barths, Saint Barth, or St. Bart's, the collectivity is one of the four territories among the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean that include the French West Indies, and is the only one to have in the past been a Swedish colony.

The coalition of Saint Kitts and Nevis (also known as the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis), located in the Leeward Islands, is a federal two-island nation in the West Indies. It is the smallest nation in the Americas, in both area and population. The capital city and headquarters of government for the federated state is on the better island of Saint Kitts. The smaller state of Nevis lies about 2 miles (3 km) southeast of Saint Kitts, across a shallow channel called "The Narrows". Historically, the British addiction of Anguilla was also a part of this union, then known together as Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla.

Saint Lucia is an island nation in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It is also known as the "Helen of the West Indies" because it switched between British and French control so often it was likened to the mythical Helen of Troy.

The Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (French: Collectivite territoriale de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon) is a group of small islands in the North Atlantic Ocean — the main ones being Saint Pierre and Miquelon — 25 kilometres (13 nmi) off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

The islands are part of France and the European Union but due to special immigration procedures, EU nationals who are not French citizens are not allowed to exercise free movement and business institution in the archipelago.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles chain of the Caribbean Sea. Its 389-square-kilometre (150 sq mi) country consists of the main island of Saint Vincent and the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines. The country has a French and British colonial history and is now part of the Commonwealth of Nations and CARICOM.

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago  is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American nation of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. It also shares maritime boundaries with Barbados to the northeast and Guyana to the southeast. The country covers an area of 5,128 square kilometers (1,979 sq mi) and consists of two main islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and 21 smaller islands. Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the main islands; Tobago is much smaller, comprising about 6% of the total area and 4% of the population. The nation lies outside the gale belt.

The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States. The islands are in nature part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles.

The U.S. Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Saint Croix, Saint John and Saint Thomas, along with the much smaller but in times gone by distinct Water Island, and many other surrounding minor islands. The total land area of the region is 346.36 km² (133.73 sq mi). As of the 2000 census the inhabitants was 108,612.

The United States of America is a legitimate federal republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated typically in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait, and the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The United States also possesses several territories, or insular areas, scattered in the region of the Caribbean and Pacific. At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with over 300 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area.