North America occupies

the northern portion of the

landmass generally referred
to as the New World, the
Western Hemisphere, or
simply the Americas.
Mainland North America
is shaped roughly like a
triangle, with its base in the
north and its apex in the
south; associated with the
continent is Greenland, the
largest island in the world,
and such offshore groups as
the Arctic Archipelago,
the West Indies, Haida
Gwaii (formerly the Queen
Charlotte Islands), and the
Aleutian Islands.
North America is the 3
rd
largest
continent. About 502 million people live
in North America. North America
was named after the explorer America
Vespucci. ] Mexico City, Mexico is the
largest city in North America. North
America is the only continent that has
every kind of climate. Mount
McKinley, in Alaska, is the tallest
point on the continent. Death Valley,
in California, is the lowest point on the
continent. North America covers an
area of about 24,709,000 square
kilometers (9,540,000 square miles),
about 4.8% of the planet's surface or
about 16.5% of its land area. As of
2013, its population was estimated at
nearly 565 million people across 23
independent states, representing about
7.5% of the human population. Most of
the continent's land area is dominated
by Canada, the United States,
Greenland, and Mexico, while smaller
states exist in the Central American
and Caribbean regions. North
America is the third largest continent
by area, following Asia and Africa,
[2] and the fourth by population after
Asia, Africa, and Europe.


North America






Most women in North America
wore dresses sewn out of deerskin,
sometimes with leggings made out
of deerskin. They often wrapped
another deerskin around
themselves to keep warm. Women
spun and wove nettle fibers (this is
like working with flax) to make
softer under-shirts to wear under
their dresses. Other women went
topless and just wore leggings and
skirts.

Most men wore leggings and
breechclouts made out of deerskin.
When it was cold they wore
deerskin robes. It was hard to get
enough deerskins for everyone, so
most people only had one outfit,
and some poor people and children
didn't own any clothes. Most
people tried to make their clothes
last as long as possible by not
wearing them whenever it was
warm enough, or if they were
working hard. Sometimes women
wore cheaper grass skirts to save
their deerskin clothes.