Countries in North America

North America runs from the Arctic islands of Canada down to the narrow isthmus of Panama, and it includes the island nations of the Caribbean. Counted this way, the continent contains 23 sovereign countries. Three of them, Canada, the United States and Mexico, account for the overwhelming majority of the land area and population, while the remaining twenty are the smaller states of Central America and the Caribbean.

23 countries 23 sovereign states, including Central America and the Caribbean island nations.

Country	Capital	Currency	Population
Antigua and Barbuda	Saint John's	XCD $	94,209
Bahamas	Nassau	BSD $	403,033
Barbados	Bridgetown	BBD $	282,623
Belize	Belmopan	BZD $	422,924
Canada	Ottawa	CAD $	41,651,653
Costa Rica	San José	CRC ₡	5,152,950
Cuba	Havana	CUC $	10,937,203
Dominica	Roseau	XCD $	65,871
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	DOP $	11,520,487
El Salvador	San Salvador	USD $	6,365,503
Grenada	St. George's	XCD $	117,303
Guatemala	Guatemala City	GTQ Q	18,687,881
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	HTG G	11,906,095
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	HNL L	11,005,850
Jamaica	Kingston	JMD $	2,837,077
Mexico	Mexico City	MXN $	131,946,900
Nicaragua	Managua	NIO C$	7,007,502
Panama	Panama City	PAB B/.	4,571,189
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	XCD $	46,922
Saint Lucia	Castries	XCD $	180,149
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	XCD $	99,924
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	TTD $	1,367,764
United States	Washington D.C.	USD $	341,784,857

Populations from the World Bank (SP.POP.TOTL); other fields from open datasets. Sources and vintage on the data page. Membership of cultural regions can vary between sources; this list uses the definition described above.