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Americas

North America and South America taken together as a single continent or landmass

Placesupercontinent part of the world continentQ828

Also known as America · North, Central, and South America · the New World · the Americas · American continent · North and South America

Area: 42.5M km²
Population: 1.06B(2025)
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1.“Population by Continent 2025”worldpopulationreview.com/continentsRetrieved 2025-07-21
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, 1.04B(2023)

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The Americas, also collectively known as America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America. When viewed as a single continent, the Americas are the second largest continent by area after Asia and the third largest continent by population. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and constitute the "New World", in contrast to the "Old World" of Afro-Eurasia.

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138 statements · 11% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Members / parts: South America
North America
Central America
Latin America and the Caribbean
Named after: Amerigo Vespucci applies to name of subject: Americas
Darien Gap statement is subject of: Abya Yala
Part of: Earth's surface
Earth
Geography of topic: geography of the Americas
Permanent duplicated item: Q20819895
Demonym: American language: English
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1.gyan.us
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amerikanisch language: German
americano language: Spanish · grammatical gender: masculine · grammatical number: singular
Américain language: French · grammatical gender: masculine
Américaine language: French · grammatical gender: feminine
americano language: Italian · grammatical gender: masculine · grammatical number: singular
americana language: Italian · grammatical gender: feminine · grammatical number: singular
americani language: Italian · grammatical gender: masculine · grammatical number: plural
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americane language: Italian · grammatical gender: feminine · grammatical number: plural
americana language: Spanish · grammatical gender: feminine · grammatical number: singular
Amerikano language: Esperanto
Said to be the same as: New World
Highest point: Aconcagua elevation: 6,962 m
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1.“7 (or 8) Summits: The World’s Highest Mountains by Continent | Britannica”britannica.com/story/7-or-8-summits-the-worlds-highest-mountains-by-continentRetrieved 2025-07-21
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Studied by: Americanism
Different from: America
continental United States
United States
American continent
Amerika criterion used: same or similar name
Amèrica
Economy of topic: economy of the Americas
Discovered by: Christopher Columbus allegiance: Crown of Castile · relative to: Old World
unknown relative to: indigenous peoples of the Americas
Discovered: October 12, 1492 relative to: Old World
30th millennium BCE relative to: indigenous peoples of the Americas
Named by: Matthias Ringmann applies to name of subject: America
Martin Waldseemüller
Lowest point: Laguna del Carbón elevation: -105 m
Coordinates of easternmost point: 7.1556°S, 34.7931°W statement is subject of: Brazil
Coordinates of southernmost point: 56.5383°S, 68.7201°W statement is subject of: Chile
Coordinates of westernmost point: 52.9211°N, 172.4371°E statement is subject of: Diomede Islands
Coordinates of northernmost point: 83.1114°N, 69.9583°W statement is subject of: Cape Columbia

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80 identifiers linking Americas across the web's reference databases

19.0000, -96.0000OpenStreetMap ↗

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