North America — Geography & Quizzes
Explore all 23 countries of North America — capitals, flags, populations, and free quizzes.
North America by the numbers
North America has 23 countries, a combined population of about 590,977,266 — roughly 7.4% of everyone on Earth — across 22,524,442 square kilometres. That works out at 26.2 people per square kilometre against a world average of 59.4.
- Countries: 23
- Total population: ~590,977,266
- Total area: 22,524,442 km²
- Average density: 26.2 people per km²
- Most populous: United States (333,287,557)
- Largest by area: Canada (9,984,670 km²)
- Most densely populated: Barbados (655 per km²)
- Least densely populated: Canada (3.9 per km²)
The biggest and the smallest
By population the five largest are United States (333,287,557), Mexico (127,504,125), Canada (38,929,902), Guatemala (17,843,908) and Haiti (11,584,996).
The smallest by population are Saint Kitts and Nevis (47,657), Dominica (72,737) and Antigua and Barbuda (93,763) — and those are exactly the ones people forget when trying to name every country on the continent.
By land area the order is different: Canada, United States, Mexico, Nicaragua and Honduras lead, while Saint Kitts and Nevis, Grenada and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are the smallest. Population and area rankings rarely agree, and noticing where they diverge is one of the fastest ways to build a real feel for a continent rather than a list of names.
Languages and currencies
The most widely used official languages here are English (13 countries), Spanish (9 countries), French (2 countries) and Haitian Creole (1 country).
Several countries share a currency: XCD, used by 6 and USD, used by 2. Shared currencies usually mark a monetary union or a long-standing peg, and they are worth knowing because one answer often unlocks several.
Learn North America properly
Working one continent at a time beats shuffling the whole world, because your memory for places is spatial and neighbouring countries reinforce each other. For North America the three angles worth covering are the map, the flags and the capitals.
- North America map quiz — place each country on a blank map
- North America flags quiz — identify the flags
- North America capitals quiz — match countries to capital cities
Do all three for the same continent before moving on. Each one reinforces the other two, which is far more efficient than learning flags globally, then capitals globally, then the map globally.
Regional map quizzes
Countries of North America
- Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 — capital Saint John's
- Bahamas 🇧🇸 — capital Nassau
- Barbados 🇧🇧 — capital Bridgetown
- Belize 🇧🇿 — capital Belmopan
- Canada 🇨🇦 — capital Ottawa
- Costa Rica 🇨🇷 — capital San José
- Cuba 🇨🇺 — capital Havana
- Dominica 🇩🇲 — capital Roseau
- Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 — capital Santo Domingo
- El Salvador 🇸🇻 — capital San Salvador
- Grenada 🇬🇩 — capital Saint George's
- Guatemala 🇬🇹 — capital Guatemala City
- Haiti ðŸ‡ðŸ‡¹ — capital Port-au-Prince
- Honduras ðŸ‡ðŸ‡³ — capital Tegucigalpa
- Jamaica 🇯🇲 — capital Kingston
- Mexico 🇲🇽 — capital Mexico City
- Nicaragua 🇳🇮 — capital Managua
- Panama 🇵🇦 — capital Panama City
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 🇰🇳 — capital Basseterre
- Saint Lucia 🇱🇨 — capital Castries
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 🇻🇨 — capital Kingstown
- Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 — capital Port of Spain
- United States 🇺🇸 — capital Washington, D.C.