What are the Countries of North America?
North America includes Canada, the United States and Mexico, the seven countries of
Central America, the island nations of the Caribbean, and territories such as Greenland.
- The United States declared independence from Britain in 1776.
- Haiti became the first independent Caribbean nation in 1804, after a successful slave revolution.
- Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821.
- Central America also broke from Spain in 1821 and briefly formed one federation, which split into five countries by 1841.
- Canada was formed by Confederation in 1867.
- Panama separated from Colombia in 1903.
- Many Caribbean nations, such as Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, became independent in the 1960s.
Current quiz contains
18 countries:
Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greenland, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America.