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North America: Quick Facts

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Governments, courts, trains and hospitals hit by Microsoft outage in North America • Nov. 13, 2026, 1:53 PM ET (BBC)
Deftones to Give ‘Private Music’ Public Offering on Spring Tour • Nov. 12, 2026, 3:54 PM ET (Rolling Stone)
PepsiCo to cut about 1,000 jobs as North American business struggles • Nov. 9, 2026, 3:41 PM ET (CNBC)
Box Office: ‘You Can See Everything’ Becomes Second-Biggest Doc Ever in North America With $80 Million • Nov. 8, 2026, 12:52 PM ET (Variety)
FIFA’s head lawyer leaves soccer organization • Nov. 7, 2026, 11:00 AM ET (Taipei Times)

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Map of North America showing international boundaries, country names, and capital cities. The map includes Canada, the United States, Mexico, Greenland, Central American countries, and Caribbean nations, with a locator inset at the bottom left for global context. Major bodies of water such as the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, and Caribbean Sea are labeled.
Uummannaq Rock rises behind the Greenlandic town of Uummannaq, with icebergs floating in the fjord under a cloudy sky.
Death Valley
Snow-covered Mt. McKinley rises above a vast, red and gold tundra landscape in Denali National Park, Alaska.
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Nachvak Fjord
Map of the Atlantic Ocean highlighting the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a prominent underwater mountain range stretching from the Arctic Ocean near Iceland, through the center of the Atlantic between the Americas and Europe/Africa, and down toward the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. Surrounding ocean basins, continental coastlines, principal ports, and seafloor depths are marked with color gradients and spot depth measurements in meters.
Map of northern North America highlighting the Canadian Shield in pink, covering much of eastern and central Canada-including Nunavut, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and parts of Newfoundland and Labrador-as well as portions of the northern United States such as Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York. Surrounding geographic features include Hudson Bay, the Arctic Ocean, and the Labrador Sea.
Rocky, green-topped island and distant hills along the coastline near Nain, Labrador, with the Labrador Sea in the foreground under a partly cloudy sky.
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