Population of North America as of 2024

Population of North America as of 2024. In terms of land mass, North America is the third-largest of the seven continents. It also has just three countries including Canada, the United States of America, and Mexico. It extends from Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, which stretch to the maritime border with Russia, down to the tiny Isthmus of Panama, and all the way to Greenland off the eastern coast of Canada.

North America has the most volcanoes of all seven continents, both in the mountainous regions of Central America and in the Pacific Northwest, which is part of the ring of fire. Even Yellowstone National Park is considered to be a supervolcano – if it erupted, the devastation would envelop much of the continent. There are both large deserts and temperate rainforests, so called because these rainforests are in colder climates rather than in tropical ones.

No cultural force has impacted North America more profoundly than immigration. That isn’t true only because of the political debates about allowing immigrants into the United States but also because immigrants conquered the indigenous peoples of the United States as well as Canada and took over their lands to build their settlements.