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  2. North America - Wikipedia

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    North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), representing approximately 16.5% of the Earth 's land area and 4.8% of its total surface area. It is the third-largest continent by size after Asia and Africa, and the fourth-largest continent by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe.

  3. Altafiber - Wikipedia

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    Altafiber, Inc., formerly Cincinnati Bell, is a regional telecommunications service provider based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.It provides landline telephone, fiber-optic Internet, and IPTV services through its subsidiaries Altafiber Home Phone and Hawaiian Telcom, which are the incumbent local exchange carriers for the Greater Cincinnati metropolitan area (aka "The Tri-State") and Hawaii.

  4. History of North America - Wikipedia

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    Maddison's total for all of pre-contact North America, then, is 9.75 million. In 2020, indigenous peoples numbered 34 million (25.7 million for Mexico, 6.7 million for the United States, and 1.6 million for Canada), approximately 7 percent of North America's total population of 493.4 million. Arrival of Europeans Early contact

  5. History of Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The history of Native Americans in the United States began before the founding of the country, tens of thousands of years ago with the settlement of the Americas by the Paleo-Indians. Anthropologists and archeologists have identified and studied a wide variety of cultures that existed during this era.

  6. Pre-Columbian trans-Bering Strait contact - Wikipedia

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    Pre-Columbian trans-Bering Strait contact. Defense Mapping Agency topographical map of the Bering Strait, 1973. The similar cultures of peoples across the Bering Strait in both Siberia and Alaska suggest human travel between the two places ever since the strait was formed. [1] After Paleo-Indians arrived during the Last Glacial Period and began ...

  7. GlobeCast World TV - Wikipedia

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    Parent. Orange S.A. Website. www.globecastwtv.com. GlobeCast World TV was a television via satellite service received in North America via the Galaxy 19 satellite, providing ethnic television and audio channels. It was a service by Globecast, a subsidiary of Orange. In North America, the satellite broadcasts dozens of Arabic and Asian channels.

  8. Geography of North America - Wikipedia

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    With an estimated population of 580 million and an area of 24,709,000 km 2 (9,540,000 mi 2 ), the northernmost of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere [1] is bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the west; the Atlantic Ocean on the east; the Caribbean Sea on the south; and the Arctic Ocean on the north. The northern half of North America is ...

  9. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories - Wikipedia

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    Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that possible visits to the Americas, possible interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas—or both—were made by people from Africa, Asia, Europe, or Oceania prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492 (i.e., during ...