The continent of North America is located in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by the Carribbean Sea and South America and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean.

The North American continental region includes thirty-nine countries including: the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, the Caribbean, the eight countries in Central America, Clipperton Island, Greenland, Mexico, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the United States.

North America cover an area of under ten million square miles (24.7 million square kilometers). This area of land coverage equals to about 16.5 percent of the land area on the Earth and 4.8 percent of the total surface area of the Earth.

North America is the third largest continent by land size after Asia and Africa.

The current population, including all of the above listed countries is listed on Wikipedia.org at 592.3 million people.

It is unknown how and when humans first reached North America. The indigenous population is believe to have arrived long before the Europeans crossed the Atlantic. The wise men of this world state with conviction that those of the indigenous population arrived at least 20,000 years ago. However, as I have said repeatedly on this website, the Bible dating conflicts greatly with their estimates. My guess is that those who traveled across the Asian continent and crossed the Bering land bridge, did so possibly as far back as 4 to 5 thousand years ago. Nevertheless, by the sixth century (501 to 600 CE), the Woodland Period and/or the Settlement Era had already begun.

Some time around 1000 CE, the Norse were the first Europeans to begin exploring and colonizing areas within North America.

In 1492, the exploratory voyages of Christopher Columbus eventually led to a major transatlantic exchange, including migrations of European settlers during the Age of Disscovery and the early modern period. Present day cultural and ethnic patterns reflect interactions between European colonist, indigenous native, enslaved Africans, immigrants from Europe and Asia and descendants of all of these respective groups.

The Americas were named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by German cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann. Vespucci explored South America between 1497 and 1502, and was the first European to suggest that the Americas represented a landmass then unknown to the Europeans.

On 24 April 1507, Waldseemüller published a world map, and placed the word "America" on the continent of present-day South America. Later, the name wast applied to North America.

Still, there is much more to the story but I am not going to expand on it now.

After first being divided into the seven continental regions, this website will next host a page for each of the individual continents, where there will be a listing of information, associated maps, and photo galleries, all of which will provide access to how this continent, known as North America, has been borne out and is currently developed and revealed.

Next, if and/or when available, each continental region, will have additional information and maps displaying how that continent is further divided into smaller regions, commonly know as Ecoregion.

This gallery explores a few of these places we would have the circumstances to travel to and visit as we journey. Yes, we are taking note as to the marvels of the creation.

All over the earth, no matter where we travels, it is imperative that we stop and examine our surroundings. There are so many natural wonders everywhere you look, and many of these wonders are so worth stopping to see. When you drive any place, schedule plenty of time for exploring the earth, you will be glad you did.

One thing to remember, though, you will not find many, if any, of these natural wonders in the city. No, the only things normally found in the city are concrete, crime, corruption and contaminated water.