Discover North America

A continent of vast national parks, global mega-cities, and three countries linked by deep cultural and economic ties.

North America spans Arctic tundra, desert canyons, dense rainforest, and the skylines of some of the world's most recognized cities, all within Canada, the United States, and Mexico.

Whether the draw is a national park road trip, a weekend in a world-capital city, or ancient ruins on the Yucatán coast, North America offers scale and variety that few other continents can match.

North America here covers Canada, Mexico, and the United States — three countries that, despite sharp differences in language, history, and wealth, are bound together by one of the world's most integrated trade relationships and thousands of miles of shared border. Geographically it stretches from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the tropical lowlands of southern Mexico, covering more climate zones than almost any other single continental grouping on the site.

What distinguishes North America for a visitor is the sheer range of experience available inside a familiar travel framework. English is the primary language across the United States and most of Canada; Spanish is Mexico's national language and is also widely spoken in the southern and southwestern United States, home to large Hispanic populations; and French is Canada's other official language, the first language of most of Quebec and of significant communities in New Brunswick and eastern Ontario. Infrastructure is generally reliable throughout, and getting between destinations rarely requires the logistics some other regions do. That ease of access doesn't make the destinations themselves any less distinctive: Indigenous nations across all three countries maintain living cultures and histories that predate European contact by thousands of years, and Mexico's own pre-Columbian civilizations left some of the most significant archaeological sites anywhere in the world.

The three countries are often visited separately rather than as a single continental trip, and each has its own well-developed tourism identity — Canada's wilderness and cities, the United States' scale and variety, Mexico's ancient sites, beaches, and colonial towns — but all three share the continent's defining trait: an enormous amount of room to cover real distance and see real difference.