proper noun

1. The continent that is the northern part of the Americas; that part east of the Pacific Ocean, west of the Atlantic Ocean, north of South America and south of the Arctic Ocean, and consisting of the following countries: 'Mainland' *Canada *Mexico *United States 'Caribbean' *Anguilla (British dependency) *Antigua and Barbuda *Aruba (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) *Bahamas *Barbados *Bermuda (British dependency) *British Virgin Islands (British dependency) *Cayman Islands (British dependency) *Cuba *Dominica *Dominican Republic *Grenada *Guadeloupe (overseas department of France) *Haiti *Jamaica *Martinique (overseas department of France) *Montserrat (British dependency) *Netherlands Antilles (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) *Puerto Rico (U.S. free associated state) *Saint Kitts and Nevis *Saint Lucia *Saint Vincent and the Grenadines *Trinidad and Tobago *Turks and Caicos Islands (British dependency) *U.S. Virgin Islands (territory of the USA) 'Northern Atlantic' * Greenland (a self-governing dependency of Denmark) 'Central America' *Belize *Costa Rica *El Salvador *Guatemala *Honduras *Nicaragua *Panama