North America is a region of the Americas stretching through the Northern and Western Hemispheres. It has an area of 9.54 square miles (24.7 million km²), and comprises Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Greenland, the world's largest island.

North America is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Gulf of Mexico and Central America to the south, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.