Wednesday, 23 September 2020

North America

 North America.

North America is a continent. North America alone is 8,000km in length or 500 miles. Countries in North America are the United States, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica, Barbados, Belize, The Bahamas, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, U.S. Virgin Islands, Honduras, EI Salvador, Cayman Islands, Grenada, Turks and Caicos Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Barthelemy, British Virgen Islands, Anguilla, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Kitts Nevis, Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Montserrat, United States Minor Outlying Island, and Saint Martin. The main languages in Noth America are English, Spanish, and French. The area/size of North America is 9.5 million square miles. The population of North America is 565 million people. The number of countries in North America is 37. The largest cities in North America are 1st Mexico, 2nd New York, and then 3rd Los Angeles. Only 2.5 million people lived in America in 1776. The American one-dollar bill had a secret spider in the top right corner. Jimmy Carter was the first American president to be born in a hospital. Canada in America has six different time zones. The green ink used for money bills was invented at America McGill University by Thomas Sterry in 1857. Wood Buffalo national park was created in 1922 and is larger than the whole of Switzerland. North America is the third largest continent in the world. North America has been populated with people for around 15,000 years.


I liked that some of the facts are what I already knew so it made it a little bit easier. I didn't like that I couldn't improve it much because there weren't many facts that I could find.


1 comment:

  1. Kia Ora Curtis,

    Great job on your blog post. I like how you have gained as much information as possible. Maybe next time you could add pictures of the places you have added on this blog post. Once again great job and keep up the excellent work.

    -Shriya from EHS Rm11

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