Welcome to North America! There are twenty three countries in North America. Hard to imagine that the United States is just one of those countries. You can explore this website: http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/na.htm and it will tell you everything you are looking for in this project. There are many more countries than the United States so you can choose any country besides the United States, because the point of this assignment is to broaden our horizens and to learn about countries we have not studied before.
After you have done your research and are ready to test yourself against the map, you can take this quiz, which quizzes you on every country in North America
http://www.sporcle.com/games/northamerica.php
Here is a quiz to complete just on the United States, see how fast you can do this one!