This story appears in the November 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. America has had two great ... United States4,690,000 sq mi MAPS: RYAN MORRIS, NGM STAFF; THEODORE A.

The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps ... it had not been updated in the Geographic Names Information System or in Google Maps. Emily Mae Czachor is a news editor ...

North America is the third largest continent in the world. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The north of the continent is within the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer passes through ...