North America North America is a highly diversified continent. It is the third largest of the seven continents. North America includes ,the United States, Mexico, Canada, Greenland, and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon(British dependency of Bermuda). (Encarta Encyclopedia 98). One the many things that make North America unique is that it has almost every climate in the world. Most of the people live in or around the major cities where manufacturing is a very important resource. The climate in North America is Extremely diversified. It can be broken down into 5 principle climate regions. The upper half of Canada, all of Alaska and Greenland can be classified as Arctic climates in the win