North America.

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North America (includes Central America and the Caribbean) COUNTRY AREA (SQ MI) URBAN CAPITAL POP. % POPULATION POP. RISE %/YEAR Antigua and 171 23 St. John's Barbuda 102,000 1.2 Bahamas 5,382 83 Nassau 394,000 0.8 Barbados 166 31 Bridgetown 285,000 0.3 Belize 8,867 45 Belmopan 388,000 1.8 Canada 3,855,103 82 Ottawa 36,738,000 0.7 Costa Rica 19,730 78 San Jose 4,949,000 1.2 Cuba 42,426 77 Havana 11,309,000 *0.3 Dominica 290 70 Roseau 73,000 0.2 Dominican 18,653 80 Santo Domingo Republic 10,737,000 1.2 El Salvador 8,124 66 San Salvador 6,440,000 0.3 Grenada 133 36 St. George's 114,000 0.4 Guatemala 42,042 52 Guatemala City 16,914,000 1.8 Haiti 10,695 60 Port-au-Prince 10,647,000 1.3 Honduras 43,433 55 Tegucigalpa 8,873,000 1.6 Jamaica 4,244 55 Kingston 2,890,000 0.7 Mexico 758,450 80 Mexico City 129,163,000 1.1 Nicaragua 50,337 59 Managua 6,218,000 1.0 Panama 28,640 67 Panama City 4,103,000 1.3 Saint Kitts 104 32 Basseterre and Nevis 53,000 0.7 Saint Lucia 238 19 Castries 173,000 0.3 Saint 150 51 Kingstown Vincent and the 110,000 -0.3 Grenadines Trinidad and 1,980 8 Port-of-Spain Tobago 1,358,000 -0.2 United States 3,678,190 81 Washington, 325,374,000 0.8 D.C. COUNTRY LANGUAGES POLITICAL SYSTEM & HEAD OF GOVERNMENT Antigua and English, local Parliamentary democracy; Barbuda dialects Prime Minister Gaston Browne Bahamas English, Creole Parliamentary democracy; Prime Minister Hubert Minnis Barbados English, Bajan Parliamentary democracy; Prime Minister Freundel Stuart Belize English, Parliamentary democracy; Spanish, Mayan, Prime Minister Dean Garifuna Barrow Canada English, French Parliamentary democracy; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Costa Rica Spanish, English Presidential-legislative democracy; President Luis Guillermo Solis Cuba Spanish Communist one-party state; President Raul Castro Dominica English, French Parliamentary democracy; patois Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Dominican Spanish Presidential-legislative Republic democracy; President Danilo Medina El Salvador Spanish, Nahua Presidential-legislative democracy; President Salvador Sanchez Ceren Grenada English, French Parliamentary democracy; patois Prime Minister Keith Mitchell Guatemala Spanish, Presidential-legislative Amerindian democracy; President dialects Jimmy Morales Haiti French, Creole Presidential-legislative system; President...