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North America on the Equal Earth Map

CONTINENT • RANK #3 BY AREA

North America is the third-largest continent, spanning from the Canadian Arctic archipelago to the isthmus of Panama. It includes two of the world's four largest countries by land area (Canada and the United States) as well as the world's largest island, Greenland.

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Total Surface Area 24,709,000 km²

Area (Square Miles) 9,540,194 mi²

Continental Area Rank #3 of 7

Share of Earth Land 16.6%

Cartographic Realities of North America

✓ North America spans 24.71 million km², making up roughly 16.5% of the planet's land area.
✓ Canada and Greenland often appear artificially vast on Mercator maps due to polar conformal distortion.
✓ Equal Earth provides a true-to-scale view of Canada, Alaska, the contiguous US, Mexico, and Central America.

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