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Northern America

Canada and the United States, the two large sovereign states spanning the continent's mid to high latitudes north of Mexico, sharing the world's longest international border and a broadly temperate to subarctic climate range. Mexico sits in Central America under the UN geoscheme rather than here, despite its own continental position, so this group stays exactly two countries.

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UN M49 Code
21 1
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1. United Nations M49 Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Geoscheme)
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A: While Mexico is not part of Northern America (numerical code 021), it is part of North America (numerical code 003).
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