Kasashen Arewacin Amurka

Arewacin Amurka — nahiyar da ke cikin rabin duniya na arewa kuma kusan gaba ɗaya a rabin duniya na yamma. Tana iyaka da Tekun Arctic a arewa, Tekun Atlantika a gabas, Kudancin Amurka da Tekun Caribbean a kudu maso gabas, da Tekun Pasifik a yamma da kudu. Saboda Greenland tana kan farantin tectonic na Arewacin Amurka, a matsayin ƙasa tana cikin Arewacin Amurka.

Arewacin Amurka tana da fadin kusan km murabba'i 24,709,000 (mil murabba'i 9,540,000), wanda yake kusan kashi 16.5% na fadin ƙasar Duniya da kusan kashi 4.8% na dukkan fadin saman ta. Arewacin Amurka ita ce nahiyar ta uku mafi girma ta fuskar yanki bayan Asiya da Afirka kuma ta huɗu mafi yawan jama'a bayan Asiya, Afirka da Turai. A shekarar 2013, an kiyasta yawan jama'arta kusan miliyan 579 a cikin ƙasashe 23 masu cin gashin kansu, ko kusan kashi 7.5% na yawan jama'ar duniya.

Mutanen farko sun isa Arewacin Amurka a lokacin karshe na zamanin kankara ta hanyar gada ta Bering kusan shekaru 20,000 zuwa 17,000 da suka wuce. Ana tsammanin cewa lokacin da ake kira Paleo-Indian ya ɗauki kusan shekaru 10,000 da suka wuce (farkon lokacin arkaik ko meso-Indian). Matakin gargajiya ya haɗa da kusan ƙarni na 6 zuwa na 13. Turawan farko da aka rubuta tarihin zuwansu Arewacin Amurka (banda Greenland) su ne Vikings kusan shekara ta 1000 AZ. Zuwa Christopher Columbus a 1492 ya haifar da musayar tekun Atlantika, wanda ya haɗa da ƙaura, mazaunan Turai a zamanin Babban Bincike da a farkon zamani na yau. Tsarin al'adu da na kabilu na zamani yana nuna hulɗa tsakanin mazaunan Turai, mutanen asali, bayi na Afirka, 'yan hijira daga Turai, Asiya da zuriyarsu.

Sakamakon mulkin mallakar Turai a Amurka, yawancin mazauna Arewacin Amurka suna magana da harsunan Turai, kamar Turanci, Sifaniyanci ko Faransanci, kuma al'adunsu yawanci suna nuna al'adun Yammacin duniya. Duk da haka, a wasu sassan Kanada, Amurka, Mexico da Amurka ta Tsakiya, akwai mutanen asali da ke ci gaba da al'adunsu na gargajiya kuma suna magana da harshensu na asali.