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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. 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.

  4. History of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    European colonization of the Americas led to the rise of new cultures, civilizations and eventually states, which resulted from the fusion of Native American, European, and African traditions, peoples and institutions. The transformation of American cultures through colonization is evident in architecture, religion, gastronomy, the arts and ...

  5. Continent - Wikipedia

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    Where the Americas are viewed as a single continent (America), it is divided into two subcontinents (North America and South America) [68] [69] [70] or three (Central America being the third). [ 71 ] [ 72 ] When Eurasia is regarded as a single continent, Asia and Europe are treated as subcontinents.

  6. List of countries in the Americas by population - Wikipedia

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    Pan-American countries by population, 2020. This is a list of countries and dependent territories in the Americas by population, which is sorted by the 2015 mid-year normalized demographic projections.

  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 North America - Wikipedia

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    North America is the third largest continent, and is also a portion of the third largest supercontinent if North and South America are combined into the Americas and Africa, Europe, and Asia are considered to be part of one supercontinent called Afro-Eurasia. With an estimated population of 580 million and an area of 24,709,000 km 2 (9,540,000 ...

  9. Naming of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The naming of the Americas, or America, occurred shortly after Christopher Columbus 's first voyage to the Americas in 1492. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years on behalf of Spain and Portugal, with the name given by German ...