NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA

Dear students,
Let us explore about North America and South America's continents, countries, capital cities and physical features.

Learning Objectives.
1. explore North and South America's continents.
2. Learn about the countries, populations, capital cities and physical features.


According to this website: https://www.kids-world-travel-guide.com/continent-facts.html


3. NORTH AMERICA.  

North America Facts

1. There are 23 countries in North America with a total of more than 579 million people living on the continent.

Vancouver in Canada

2. Largest Country: Canada. The country is covering almost half the North American continent's land area. Canada is slightly bigger than the USA and about as big as China.

3. Largest City: Mexico City, which is the capital city of Mexico with a population of about 9 million. 

4. Smallest Country: St Kitts and Nevis with only about 54,000 inhabitants. This island country is located in the Caribbean Sea. 

5. Biggest Island: Greenland. This is also the world's largest island that is not a continent! Greenland is located in the North Atlantic Ocean. - Australia is also an island, but considered a continent.

6. Longest River of North America: Missouri River/USA (3,767 metres/2,341 miles). The Missouri River flows through seven states of the USA: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. Together with the Mississippi River, it forms one of the largest river systems in the world.

St Louis on the Mississippi River - which the Missouri joins just north of the city

7. North America Facts: Highest Mountain: Denali in Alasaka/USA. The mountain (6,190 metres/20,310 ft) is located in the Alaska mountain range. 

Mount Denali in Alaska

8. Biggest Lake: Lake Superior. This is the largest of the Great Lakes in the USA. Lake Superior is shared by Canada (to the north) and the United States (to the east, south and west). 

Lake Superior is also considered the largest freshwater lake by area in the world.

Lake Superior's Thunder Bay as seen from the Sleeping Giant

9. Lowest Point: Death Valley. In the Death Valley National Park you will not only find the lowest point in North America with 86 m/282 ft. below sea level, but this is also the hottest and the driest national park in the USA. 

Death Valley in California

10. North America Facts: There is no landlocked country in North America.

4. South America

South America Facts

1.South America is the fourth largest continent in size and the fifth largest when we consider population.

2. There are 12 countries in South America with a total of more than 385 million people living on the continent.

3. Largest Country: Brazil. The country is covering more than half the continent's landmass.

4. Largest City: Sao Paolo in Brazil. With more than 21 million inhabitants (2019) Sao Paulo is also one of the ten biggest cities in the world.

5. Smallest Country: Suriname. The country is one of the 10 most sparsely populated countries in the world.

6. Biggest Island: Tierra del Fuego (Spanish meaning: Land of Fire), at the southern tip of Argentina and Chile

7. Longest River: Amazon River (6,437metres/4,000miles). The Amazon is not only the second longest river in the world after the Nile.

8. Highest Mountain: Aconcagua in Argentina.

9. Biggest Lake: Lake Titicaca (shared by Bolivia and Peru)

Countries and cities of North and South America.