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  2. Americas - Wikipedia

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    001 – World. 1990s CIA political map of the Americas in Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection. The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, [ 5][ 6][ 7] are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America. [ 8][ 9][ 10] The Americas make up most of the land in Earth 's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World.

  3. Waldseemüller map - Wikipedia

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    The Waldseemüller map or Universalis Cosmographia ("Universal Cosmography ") is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name "America". The name America is placed on South America on the main map.

  4. North America - Wikipedia

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    A map of North America's physical, political, and population characteristics as of 2018. North America is a continent [b] in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. [c] North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean.

  5. Amerigo Vespucci - Wikipedia

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    Amerigo Vespucci ( / vɛˈspuːtʃi / vesp-OO-chee, [ 1] Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived. Between 1497 and 1504, Vespucci participated in at least two voyages of the Age of Discovery, first ...

  6. Naming of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    World map of Waldseemüller (Germany, 1507), which first used the name America (in the lower-left section, over South America) [11]. The earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to what is now known as South America. [11]

  7. United States - Wikipedia

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    The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.

  8. Geography of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The US has the 2nd largest Exclusive Economic Zone of 11,351,000 km 2 (4,383,000 sq mi). By total area ( water as well as land), the United States is either slightly larger or smaller than the People's Republic of China, making it the world's third or fourth-largest country.

  9. Martin Waldseemüller - Wikipedia

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    The wall map was decorated with prominent portraits of Ptolemy and Vespucci. The map and globe were notable for showing the New World as a continent separate from Asia and for naming the southern landmass America. By April 1507, the map, globe and accompanying book, Introduction to Cosmography, were published. A thousand copies were printed and ...

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