After the Balfour Declaration of 1926, Canada and Newfoundland were independent of the UK, plus France (St Pierre et Miquelon), Mexico and UK (Bahamas and Bermuda). There’s also Greenland/Denmark. That makes six.
Depends on whether you count islands or not. By the same count, there would be seven in 1865.
I’m not following. 
I’m not counting islands as islands, but separate countries, or colonies of other countries. Some of those colonies were islands, but I’m not treating different island possessions as different countries:
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Canada
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Newfoundland
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France (e.g. St Pierre et Miquelon)
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UK (e.g. Bermuda and Bahamas)
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Mexico
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Denmark (Greenland)
If “Kingdom of Hawaii” counts, so does every other island east of Japan, and probably New Zealand, too. And if the Antilles count, there are 21 of them out there now with varying degrees of separate identity or sovereignty. Plus the eight from Mexico to Panama.
Today, there would be 38 flags of UN Member nations flying in North America, including islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean and those European nations still claiming territory.
Unless you counted every Native American tribe separately as a “nation”, today’s 38 would probably surpass any prior number by a wide margin.
The Vikings are reported to still play in US Bank Stadium.
Sort of. It was so short-lived that virtually no one outside Sonoma even knew it existed until it was past tense. That includes the Mexican government, as far as I can tell.
If you’re playing a game, you can always consider it a player, but in terms of realpolitik, it was a non-entity.
What grounds is there for stopping at Bermuda and the Bahamas, and not including the rest of the West Indies? According to many schemes, the West Indies are included in North America.
In any case, as I said, in 1865 by your count there would have been at least seven nations.
Mexico
UK: Canada, Bermuda, Bahamas
United States of America
Confederate States of America
Russia: Alaska
France: St. Pierre and Miquelon
Denmark: Greenland and the Danish Virgin Islands.
If you include the West indies you would also have;
Spain
Netherlands
Colombia
For a total of 9 nations in 1865. If you add Central America that adds 5 more (at that time Belize would have been included in the UK, and Panama in Colombia.)
Currently the nations in North America including the Caribbean are:
North America proper (3)
USA
Canada
Mexico
Associated Islands (4)
Denmark: Greenland
France: St. Pierre and Miquelon
UK: Bermuda
Bahamas
Central America (7)
Guatemala
Belize
El Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panama
Caribbean (16, of which 3 have been counted previously, indicated by asterisk)
Cuba
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Jamaica
US*: Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands
St. Kitts and Nevis
Antigua and Barbuda
Dominica
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
St. Lucia
Barbados
Trinidad and Tobago
Colombia: St. Andreas, Providencia
UK*: Anguilla, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands
France*: Martinique, Guadelupe, St. Barts., St. Martin
Netherlands: St. Barts, Netherlands West Indies
If I’ve counted correctly, that’s 27 nations in the extended definition of North America at present.
And in 1867, you still have seven. You split Canada as a dominion from the UK possession of Labrador and Newfoundland, but you lose the CSA.
1867:
Mexico
UK: Labrador and Newfoundland, Bermuda, Bahamas
Canada
United States of America
Russia: Alaska
France: St. Pierre and Miquelon
Denmark: Greenland and the Danish Virgin Islands.
It’s St Martin, not St Barth, that is shared between France and the Netherlands.
Just wanted to mention that there is a still a town called Swedesboro, NJ around exit 2.
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Right. I should have checked.
(Of course from the Dutch point of view it’s Sint Maarten that is shared.;))