Since 1931, a stone monument in Rugby, North Dakota – population: about 2,700 – marks the area that some say is the Geographical ... took a cutout of the map of North America, and balanced ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. North America is the third largest continent in the world. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The north of ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

The Pacific Ocean is to the west of South America and the Atlantic Ocean is to the north and east. South America contains twelve countries in total. These include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Chile.

Google announced on Monday that its online mapping platform, Google Maps, will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the ...

These are some of the most common geographic misconceptions ... almost all of South America is farther east than North America. Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we ...

3. It is connected with South America through the Isthmus of Panama. 4. It is separated from Asia by the Bering Strait. 8. Mt. Mackenzie is the highest peak of North America, situated in Alaska.

Renaming geographical place names is the work ... the news conference in Mexico City with a 17th Century map of North and South America as a backdrop. "Obviously the Gulf of Mexico is recognized ...