North America

Badwater Basin, Death Valley, California, United States, lowest land surface of North America at -282 ft (-86 m)

Mauna Kea is a dormant shield volcano on the island of Hawaii. Its peak is 13,803 feet (4,207 m) above sea level, making it the highest point in Hawaii and the island with the second highest high point, behind New Guinea. Measured from its base on the ocean floor, Mauna Kea rises over 10,000 metres, taller than Mount Everest measured from sea level.

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range and the largest mountain system in North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch 3,000 mi (4,800 km) in a straight-line distance from the northernmost part of Western Canada, to New Mexico in the Southwestern United States. Being the easternmost portion of the North American Cordillera, the Rockies are distinct from the tectonically younger Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada, which both lie farther to its west. The range's highest peak is Mount Elbert in Colorado at 4,401 metres (14,440 ft) above sea level.

Waimea Canyon, also known as the Grand Canyon of the Pacific, is a large canyon, approximately ten miles (16 km) long and up to 3,000 feet (910 m) deep, located on the western side of Kauaʻi in the Hawaiian Islands of the United States. Waimea is Hawaiian for "reddish water", a reference to the erosion of the canyon's red soil.

Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, United States, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is the site of the lowest, driest, and hottest location in North America, with the lowest elevation at −86 m (−282 ft) at Badwater Basin. The World Meteorological Organization lists Death Valley as the site of the hottest surface temperature recorded on Earth. It has an area of about 3,000 sq mi (7,800 km2).

The valley is about 7.5 mi (12.1 km) long and 3,000-3,500 ft (910-1,070 m) deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and El Capitan, and densely forested with pines. The valley is drained by the Merced River, and a multitude of streams and waterfalls flow into it, including Tenaya, Illilouette, Yosemite and Bridalveil Creeks.

The Mojave Desert is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States. Named after the indigenous Mohave people, it is located primarily in southeastern California and southwestern Nevada, with small portions extending into Arizona and Utah. The 54,000-square-mile (140,000 km2) desert supports a number of human activities and is home to Death Valley, the lowest and hottest point in North America.

The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the Southwestern United States. It covers an area of 130,000 sq mi (340,000 km2) within western Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, southern and eastern Utah, northern Arizona and a small region in the extreme southeast of Nevada. About 90% of the area is drained by the Colorado River and its main tributaries: the Green, San Juan and Little Colorado.

The Appalachian Mountains are a vast mountain range situated in eastern North America, extending roughly 2,050 miles (3,300 km) from central Alabama to Newfoundland along a generally southwest-northeast axis.

extends about 497 mi (800 km) to the southwest from the mainland of Alaska and ending in the Aleutian Islands.

is a peninsula in northwestern Mexico.

in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming.

The Great Plains lie across both the Central United States and Western Canada.

covers 1,710,000 square kilometres (660,000 sq mi), around 80% of the surface of Greenland.

Located on the International Boundary between Canada and the United States, Lake Erie's northern shore is the Canadian province of Ontario

It lies in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah and has a substantial impact upon the local climate.

The Gulf of Alaska (Tlingit: Yéil T'ooch') is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from Kabuch Point in the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Cape Spencer in the east, where Glacier Bay is found and start the Inside Passage (Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia).

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part of the Lucayan Archipelago

Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory of the Caribbean region in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Aruba, officially the Country of Aruba, is an island constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the southern Caribbean Sea 29 kilometres (18 mi) north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná and 80 kilometres (50 mi) north-west of Curaçao.

located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles

The islands are in the western Caribbean Sea

Curacao lies on the continental shelf of South America

lies between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean

Martinique ( MAR-tin-EEK, French pronunciation: [maʁtinik] ; Martinican Creole: Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

part of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles chain

Puerto Rico (abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth. Located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles and the U.S.

Sint Maarten occupies the southern part of the island of Saint Martin in the Leeward Islands

The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago

is a national park in the Central Conservation Area of Costa Rica located on the edge of the Talamanca Range, near Cartago.

Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.

The North American Arctic is composed of the northern polar regions of Alaska (USA), Northern Canada and Greenland.

Tidewater is a region in the Atlantic Plains of the United States located east of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line

The Stroke Belt or Stroke Alley is a region in the southeastern United States that has been recognized by public health authorities for having an unusually high incidence of stroke and other forms of cardiovascular disease.

Reserve is a publicly accessible private property near Huntsville, Ontario, Canada

then re-discovered in 2014 and 2016. The site is jointly managed by Parks Canada

Great Slave Lake, located on the northern edge of the boreal forest of Canada

Refuge, is a national park south of Santa Cruz in the Guanacaste Province in Costa Rica

Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Marino Ballena), is a national park of Costa Rica

Nacional Isla San Lucas) is an island located off the Pacific shore of Costa Rica

(Spanish: Bosque Eterno de los Niños) is a private land trust and preserve in Costa Rica

Park, in Spanish Parque Nacional Guanacaste is a national park in northern Costa Rica

Islands), 130 kilometres (81 miles) off the mainland of British Columbia, Canada

is a National Park in Guanacaste Province of the northwestern part of Costa Rica

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Isla Bastimentos National Marine Park (in Spanish: Parque Nacional Marino Isla Bastimentos) is a marine park located in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama.

It represents one of the few remaining old-growth forests in the northeastern United States that contain white pine.

location = Travis County, Texas, U.S. ; Austin, Texas

The Boise River Greenbelt is a recreational and alternate transportation trail along the banks of the Boise River through Boise, Idaho, United States.

The Columbia River Gorge is a canyon of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

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Fort Deseret ( ) is a former fort located in northeastern Millard County, Utah, United States, just south of Deseret.

in what is now the historic center of Mexico City

is a city located in the State of Mexico

It is located near the Usumacinta River in the Mexican state of Chiapas

is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States

The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico.

At various times, it formed a land bridge referred to as the Bering land bridge or the Bering Strait land bridge that was up to 1,000 km (620 mi) wide at its greatest extent and which covered an area as large as British Columbia and Alberta together, totaling about 1.6 million km2 (620,000 sq mi), allowing biological dispersal to occur between Asia and North America.

The Snowbelt, Snow Belt, Frostbelt, or Frost Belt is the region near the Great Lakes in North America where heavy snowfall in the form of lake-effect snow is particularly common.

It was created in 1980 by the United States Congress and took its current name in 1984 in honor of U.S.

The Mormon corridor describes a region of the Western United States that was settled between 1850 and approximately 1890 by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), who are commonly called Mormons, where a large Mormon population has created a culturally distinct region.

Nunatsiavut (; Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᕗᑦ) is an autonomous area claimed by the Labradorimiut (Labrador Inuit) / Nunatsiavummiut in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Northern Canada (French: le Nord du Canada), colloquially the North or the Territories, is the vast northernmost region of Canada, variously defined by geography and politics.

state of New York, and one of the smallest in the United States.

Willemstad ( WIL-əm-staht, VIL-; Dutch: [ˈʋɪləmstɑt]; Papiamento: [wiləmˈstad]) is the capital and largest city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Fort-de-France (, US also , French: [fɔʁ də fʁɑ̃s] ; Martinican Creole: Fodfwans) is a commune and the capital city of Martinique, an overseas department and region of France located in the Caribbean.

It is located on the southern coast of Saint Martin island, between Great Bay and the Great Salt Pond.

Nuuk (Greenlandic pronunciation: [nuːk] ; formerly Danish: Godthåb) is the capital and most populous city of Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.

Old San Juan (Spanish: Viejo San Juan) is a historic district or quarter located at the "northwest triangle" of San Juan Islet in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Guadeloupe is an overseas region and department of France located in the Lesser Antilles, of which it is a sous-préfecture, being the seat of the arrondissement of Pointe-à-Pitre.

Oranjestad (UK: orr-AN-yə-staht, US: or-AHN-, oh-RAHN-, Dutch: [oːˈrɑɲəstɑt]; literally "Orange City" in Dutch; Papiamento: Playa, lit. 'beach'), the capital and most populous of Aruba's eight regions, is located on the southwestern coast of the island.

Marigot (French pronunciation: [maʁiɡo] ) is the main town and capital in the French Collectivity of Saint Martin.

Sisimiut (Greenlandic: [sisimiut]), also known by its Danish name Holsteinsborg, is the capital and largest city of the Qeqqata municipality, and the second-largest city in Greenland.

Upernavik is a small town in the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland, located on a small island of the same name.

Ittoqqortoormiit (East Greenlandic [itːɔqːɔtːɔːmːiːt]; West Greenlandic: Illoqqortoormiut [iɬːɔqːɔtːɔːmːiut]; formerly known as Scoresbysund) is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland.

Ilulissat (lit. 'Icebergs'), also known as Jakobshavn or Jacobshavn, is the municipal seat and largest town of the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland, located approximately 350 km (220 mi) north of the Arctic Circle.

Qaanaaq (Greenlandic pronunciation: [qaːnɑːq]), formerly known as New Thule, is the main town in the northern part of the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.

Acadiana (; French and Louisiana French: L'Acadiane or Acadiane), also known as Cajun Country (Louisiana French: Pays des Cadiens), is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that has historically contained much of the state's Francophone population.

The Four Corners is a region of the Southwestern United States consisting of the southwestern corner of Colorado, southeastern corner of Utah, northeastern corner of Arizona, and northwestern corner of New Mexico.

The Piney Woods is a temperate coniferous forest terrestrial ecoregion in the Southern United States covering 54,400 square miles (141,000 km2) of East Texas, southern Arkansas, western Louisiana, and southeastern Oklahoma.

The Driftless Area, also known as Bluff Country and the Paleozoic Plateau, is a topographic and cultural region in the Midwestern United States that comprises southwestern Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, northeastern Iowa, and the extreme northwestern corner of Illinois.

The Cotton Belt is a region of the Southern United States where cotton was the predominant cash crop from the late 19th century into the 20th century.

The Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site is a historical site operated by the Texas Historical Commission.

Chippokes State Park (previously known as Chippokes Plantation State Park) is a Virginia state park on the south side of the James River on the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.

Belle Isle State Park is located in Lancaster County, Virginia, on the Rappahannock River.

Corbin Park (also known as the Blue Mountain Forest and Game Preserve) is a private game reserve in New Hampshire.

in the North Atlantic Ocean

Kent is a city in King County, Washington, United States.

Centennial is a home rule city located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States.

Broomfield is a consolidated city and county located in the U.S. state of Colorado.

Westminster is a home rule city located in Adams and Jefferson counties, Colorado, United States.

Mojave (formerly Mohave) is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States

Cedar Park is a city in Williamson County in the U.S. state of Texas