Countries and territories




There are 35 sovereign states in the Americas, as well as an autonomous country of Denmark, three overseas departments of France, three overseas collectivities of France, and one uninhabited territory of France, eight overseas territories of the United Kingdom, three constituent countries of the Netherlands, three public bodies of the Netherlands, two unincorporated territories of the United States, and one uninhabited territory of the United States.

Country or territory Total area
(km2) 		Population
note 		Pop.
density
(per km2) 		Common languages
(official in bold) 		Capital
 Anguilla (United Kingdom) 91 13,452 164.8 English The Valley
 Antigua and Barbuda 442 86,295 199.1 Creole, English St. John's
 Argentina 2,766,890 42,669,500 14.3 Spanish Buenos Aires
 Aruba (Netherlands) 180 101,484 594.4 Papiamentu, Spanish, Dutch Oranjestad
 Bahamas, The 13,943 351,461 24.5 Creole, English Nassau
 Barbados 430 285,000 595.3 Bajan, English Bridgetown
 Belize 22,966 349,728 13.4 Spanish, Kriol, English Belmopan
 Bermuda (United Kingdom) 54 64,237 1,203.7 English Hamilton
 Bolivia 1,098,580 10,027,254 8.4 Spanish and 36 indigenous languages La Paz and Sucre
 Bonaire (Netherlands) 294 12,093 41.1 Papiamentu, Spanish, Dutch Kralendijk
 Bouvet Island (Norway) 49 0 0 Uninhabited  —
 Brazil 8,514,877 203,106,000 23.6 Portuguese Brasília
 British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) 151 29,537 152.3 English Road Town
 Canada 9,984,670 37,411,592 3.8 English, French Ottawa
 Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) 264 55,456 212.1 English George Town
 Chile 756,950 17,773,000 22 Spanish Santiago
 Clipperton Island (France) 6 0 0.0 Uninhabited  —
 Colombia 1,138,910 47,757,000 40 Spanish Bogotá
 Costa Rica 51,100 4,667,096 89.6 Spanish San José
 Cuba 109,886 11,167,325 102.0 Spanish Havana
 Curaçao (Netherlands) 444 150,563 317.1 Papiamentu, Dutch Willemstad
 Dominica 751 71,293 89.2 French Patois, English Roseau
 Dominican Republic 48,671 10,378,267 207.3 Spanish Santo Domingo
 Ecuador 283,560 15,819,400 53.8 Spanish, Quechua Quito
 El Salvador 21,041 6,401,240 293.0 Spanish San Salvador
 Falkland Islands (United Kingdom) 12,173 3,000 0.26 English Stanley
 French Guiana (France) 91,000 237,549 2.7 French Cayenne
 Greenland (Kingdom of Denmark) 2,166,086 56,483 0.026 Greenlandic, Danish Nuuk
 Grenada 344 103,328 302.3 English St. George's
 Guadeloupe (France) 1,628 405,739 246.7 French Basse-Terre
 Guatemala 108,889 15,806,675 128.8 Spanish, Garifuna and 23 Mayan languages Guatemala City
 Guyana 214,999 784,894 3.5 English Georgetown
 Haiti 27,750 10,745,665 361.5 Creole, French Port-au-Prince
 Honduras 112,492 8,555,072 66.4 Spanish Tegucigalpa
 Jamaica 10,991 2,717,991 247.4 Patois, English Kingston
 Martinique (France) 1,128 392,291 352.6 Patois, French Fort-de-France
 Mexico 1,964,375 119,713,203 57.1 Spanish, 68 indigenous languages Mexico City
 Montserrat (United Kingdom) 102 4,922 58.8 Creole English, English Plymouth; Brades
 Navassa Island (United States) 5 0 0.0 Uninhabited  —
 Nicaragua 130,373 6,071,045 44.1 Spanish Managua
 Panama 75,417 3,405,813 45.8 Spanish Panama City
 Paraguay 406,750 6,783,374 15.6 Guaraní, Spanish Asunción
 Peru 1,285,220 30,814,175 22 Spanish, Quechua, and other indigenous languages Lima
 Puerto Rico (United States) 8,870 3,615,086 448.9 Spanish, English San Juan
 Saba (Netherlands) 13 1,537 118.2 English, Dutch The Bottom
 Saint Barthélemy (France) 21 8,938 354.7 French Gustavia
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 261 55,000 199.2 English Basseterre
 Saint Lucia 539 180,000 319.1 English, French Creole Castries
 Saint Martin (France) 54 36,979 552.2 French Marigot
Flag of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.svg Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France) 242 6,081 24.8 French Saint-Pierre
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 389 109,000 280.2 English Kingstown
 Sint Eustatius (Netherlands) 21 2,739 130.4 Dutch, English Oranjestad
 Sint Maarten (Netherlands) 34 37,429 1,176.7 English, Spanish, Dutch Philipsburg
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands South Georgia and
South Sandwich Islands (UK) 		3,093 20 0.01 English Grytviken
 Suriname 163,270 534,189 3 Dutch and others Paramaribo
 Trinidad and Tobago 5,130 1,328,019 261.0 English Port of Spain
 Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) 948 31,458 34.8 Creole English, English Cockburn Town
 United States of Americanote 9,629,091 320,206,000 34.2 English, Spanish Washington, D.C.
 U.S. Virgin Islands (United States) 347 106,405 317.0 English, Spanish Charlotte Amalie
 Uruguay 176,220 3,286,314 19.4 Spanish Montevideo
 Venezuela 916,445 30,206,307 30.2 Spanish and 40 indigenous languages Caracas
Total 42,320,985 973,186,925 21.9

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