North America covers an area of 9.5 million square miles and includes mainly the countries of USA, Canada, Mexico, Greenland. The Caribbean countries and the countries of Central America should also be added to that list. Some also include Iceland, although that country is more commonly assocaited with Europe.
South America covers about 7 million square miles and includes mainly the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname. Uruguay and Venezuela.
Another comonly used division of America is by linguistic areas. Spanish, Portuguese (and other Romance languages derived from Latin) and English are the major languages, and America is divided into
Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala,Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela)
Anglo America, where English is the main language (United States, Anglophone Canada, Belize, Guyana, and several islands in the Caribbean)
Dutch America (Suriname and the Dutch West Indies)
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