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Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Neighboring Countries Page 84-89 Canada *North America’s largest political region *Second largest country in the world *Divided into 13 smaller political regions *10 provinces; province – political region similar to a state in the United States *3 territories; territory – area owned and governed by a country *Some landforms and waterways stretch across parts of both United States and Canada *Canada is north of the United States *Canada and United States share the world’s largest unprotected border *2 out of 3 (2/3) of all Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border Mexico *Made up of states, like the United States *Federal district that is not part of any state, where their nation’s capital is located, like the United States *Mexico City – national capital of Mexico *Mexico is south of United States *100 million people live in Mexico *Spanish is Mexico’s official language *Rio Grande – river that borders Mexico and United States Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Page 2 Central America *Part of North America *Narrow strip of land that connects North America and South America *7 countries make up Central America *In the tropics; tropics – near the equator and warm climate all year long Caribbean *Many Caribbean islands are part of other countries *Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States; commonwealth- a territory of the United Sates but it governs itself *People who are citizens of Puerto Rico are also citizens of the United States *People who live on US Virgin Islands are citizens of the United States as well *In the tropics; tropics – near the equator and warm climate all year long *Rainforest covers much of Central America and Caribbean region Rainforest – a wet area, usually warm Greenland *huge island northeast of Canada *World’s biggest island *very cold climate *nearly all of Greenland is a tundra; tundra – flat, treeless plain that stays mostly frozen *Greenland is a territory of Denmark, a country in Europe *most people living in Greenland are native people called Inuit
