North America covers about 24,710,000 km² km² — roughly 18.1%% of the world's land and the 3rd largest continent. It spans 38 countries and territories, from Canada (9,872,102 km² km²) down to Saint Barthélemy.
At true size North America is about 0.6× the size of Asia. On old Mercator maps that gap shrank or swelled depending on latitude — on the new map it is simply true.
Mercator's distortion hits North America unevenly: Greenland is inflated about 11.8× at its latitude, while Panama, near the equator, is drawn almost honestly. Old maps therefore made North America's northern countries feel dominant while hiding the scale of its equatorial ones.
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