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America is the great land mass of the Western Hemisphere. It is made up of North and South America. The mainland of America is the longest north-to-south land mass on earth. The greatest distance of its mainland from north to south is about 8,700 miles (14,000 kilometers), from the Boothia Peninsula in Canada to Cape Froward in Chile. The westernmost point of mainland America is at the Seward Peninsula on the west coast of Alaska. Northeastern Brazil is the easternmost point. America also… More »
Canterbury is a statistical area in the east central part of the South Island of New Zealand.... More >>
King Country is an area covering about 10,000 square miles (25,900 square kilometers) in the... More >>
Sunshine Coast, in Australia, is a region of 1,200 square miles (3,100 square kilometers) that... More >>
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