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___MASK73___ is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere . It can also be considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas . It is bordered to the north by the ___MASK36___ , to the east by the ___MASK55___ , to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean , and to the southeast by ___MASK96___ and the Caribbean Sea . ___MASK67___ , officially the French Republic , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of ___MASK67___ extends from the Mediterranean ___MASK24___ to the English Channel and the North ___MASK24___ , and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean . Overseas ___MASK67___ include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . ___MASK67___ spans and had a total population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017 . It is a unitary semi - presidential republic with the capital in Paris , the country ' s largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban centres include Marseille , Lyon , Lille , Nice , Toulouse and Bordeaux . The Canadian titles debate has been ongoing since the presentation to the Canadian House of Commons of the Nickle Resolution in 1917 . This resolution marked the earliest attempt to establish a Canadian government policy requesting the sovereign not to grant knighthoods , baronetcies , and peerages to Canadians and set the precedent for later policies restricting Canadians from accepting titles from foreign countries . Dissatisfaction with the British honours system led to the gradual creation of a separate system for ___MASK99___ . The Canadian Prairies is a region in western ___MASK99___ , which may correspond to several different definitions , natural or political . Notably , the Prairie provinces or simply the Prairies comprise the provinces of ___MASK97___ , ___MASK66___ , and ___MASK22___ , as they are partially covered by prairie ( grasslands ). In a more restricted sense , the term may also refer only to the areas of those provinces covered by prairie ; their portions of the physiographic region known as the Interior Plains . Prairie also covers portions of northeastern British Columbia , though that province is typically not included in the region in a political sense . The ___MASK69___ ( also called the Laurentian ___MASK69___ , or the ___MASK69___ of North America ) are a series of interconnected ___MASK40___ lakes located primarily in the upper mid - east region of North America , on the Canada  United States border , which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River . Consisting of Lakes Superior , Michigan , Huron ( or Michigan  Huron ), Erie , and Ontario , they form the largest group of ___MASK40___ lakes on Earth , containing 21 % of the world ' s surface fresh water by volume . The total surface is , and the total volume ( measured at the low water datum ) is . Due to their sea - like characteristics ( rolling waves , sustained winds , strong currents , great depths , and distant horizons ) the five ___MASK69___ have also long been referred to as " inland seas ". Lake Superior is the second largest lake in the world by area , and Lake Michigan is the largest lake that is entirely within one country . The southern half of the ___MASK69___ is bordered by the ___MASK69___ Megalopolis . New ___MASK67___ was the area colonized by ___MASK67___ in North America during a period beginning with the exploration of the Saint ___MASK20___ River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New ___MASK67___ to Spain and Great Britain in 1763 . At its peak in 1712 ( before the Treaty of Utrecht ), the territory of " New ___MASK67___ ", also sometimes known as the " French North American Empire " or " Royal New ___MASK67___ ", extended from Newfoundland to the Canadian prairies and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico , including all the Great Lakes of North America . The Treaty of ___MASK100___ , which established the Peace of ___MASK100___ , is a series of individual peace treaties , rather than a single document , signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession , in the Dutch city of ___MASK100___ in March and April 1713 . The treaties between several European states , including ___MASK92___ , Great Britain , ___MASK67___ , ___MASK28___ , Savoy and the Dutch Republic , helped end the war . ___MASK16___ Bay ( Inuktitut : " Kangiqsualuk ilua ") ( sometimes called ___MASK16___ ' s Bay , usually historically ) is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of . It drains a very large area , about , that includes parts of Ontario , ___MASK3___ , Saskatchewan , Alberta , most of Manitoba , and southeastern Nunavut , and parts of North Dakota , South Dakota , Minnesota , and Montana . ___MASK16___ Bay ' s southern arm is called James Bay . The Gulf of ___MASK59___ is an ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent . It is bounded on the northeast , north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States , on the southwest and south by ___MASK59___ , and on the southeast by ___MASK65___ . The U . S . states of Alabama , Florida , ___MASK31___ , Mississippi and Texas border the Gulf on the north , which are often referred to as the " Third Coast " in comparison with the U . S . Atlantic and Pacific coasts , or sometimes the " south coast ", in juxtaposition to the Great Lakes region being the " north coast ." One of the gulf ' s seven main areas is the Gulf of ___MASK59___ basin . ___MASK92___ , officially the Kingdom of ___MASK92___ , is a sovereign state largely located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe , with two large archipelagos , the ___MASK80___ in the Mediterranean ___MASK24___ and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast , two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran ___MASK24___ near the Moroccan coast . Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean ___MASK24___ except for a small land boundary with ___MASK91___ ; to the north and northeast by France , Andorra , and the Bay of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . It is the only European country to have a border with an African country ( Morocco ) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5 % of its population , mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla . Jacques Cartier ( December 31 , 1491September 1 , 1557 ) was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now ___MASK99___ for ___MASK67___ . Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint ___MASK20___ and the shores of the Saint ___MASK20___ River , which he named " The Country of Canadas ", after the Iroquois names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona ( ___MASK49___ ) and at Hochelaga ( Montreal Island ). The Saint ___MASK20___ River ( Tuscarora : " Kahnawákye "; Mohawk : " Kaniatarowanenneh ", meaning " big waterway ") is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America . The Saint ___MASK20___ River flows in a roughly north - easterly direction , connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean and forming the primary drainage outflow of the Great Lakes Basin . It traverses the Canadian provinces of ___MASK3___ and Ontario , and is part of the international boundary between Ontario , Canada , and the U . S . state of New York . This river also provides the basis of the commercial Saint ___MASK20___ Seaway . Claude de Ramezay , ( 15 June 1659 -- 31 July 1724 ) , was an important figure in the early history of New ___MASK67___ . He was a military man by training and rose to being commander of the colonial regular troops .