South America
Continent located mainly in the southwestern quadrant of the Earth
Also known as S. America · South American continent · S America
- Area
- 17.5M km²
- , 17.8M km²
- Population
- 438M(2025)
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Sources- 1.“7 Continents of the World”worldometers.info/geography/7-continents/Retrieved 2025-07-19
- , 386M(2009)
- 438M(2025)
- Located in/on physical feature
Overview
All data
276 statements · 24% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Shares border with
- Central America direction: north
- North America direction: north
- Continental Central America direction: north
- Part of
- Americas
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Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2021-05-28
- 2.workwithdata.com/place/south-americaRetrieved 2024-10-22
- Earth
- Latin America
- Americas
- Demonym
- Zuid-Amerikaan grammatical gender: masculine
- dél-amerikai
- South American
- Sud-Américain applies to part: male
- Sud-Américaine applies to part: female
- sudamericano applies to part: masculine singular
- sudamericana applies to part: feminine singular
- sudamericani applies to part: masculine plural
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- sudamericane applies to part: feminine plural
- Sudamerikano
- hegoamerikar
- sul-americano applies to part: masculine singular
- sul-americanos applies to part: masculine plural
- sul-americana applies to part: feminine singular
- sul-americanas applies to part: feminine plural
- Members / parts
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- Contains the administrative territorial entity
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- Highest point
- Aconcagua elevation: 6,962 m
- Number of out-of-school children
- 6,472,941(2015)
- 6,097,702(2014)
- 6,173,472(2013)
- 5,757,563(2012)
- 5,465,550(2011)
- 5,379,757(2010)
- 5,458,390(2009)
- 5,474,014(2008)
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- 7,258,400(2007)
- 7,072,744(2006)
- 6,925,760(2005)
- 7,211,568(2004)
- 6,984,157(2003)
- 6,077,990(2002)
- 6,108,343(2001)
- 6,453,941(2000)
- 6,741,340(1999)
- Geoshape
- Data:South America.map
- Short name
- 南米 name in kana: なんべい · revised hepburn romanization: Nanbei
- 남미 revised romanization: Nammi · mccune–reischauer romanization: Nammi
- Coordinates of easternmost point
- 7.1556°S, 34.7931°W statement is subject of: Brazil · located in/on physical feature: Ponta do Seixas
- Coordinates of southernmost point
- 56.5383°S, 68.7201°W statement is subject of: 4636 Chile
- Coordinates of westernmost point
- 4.6828°S, 81.3286°W statement is subject of: Peru · located in/on physical feature: Punta Pariñas
- Coordinates of northernmost point
- 15.6710°N, 63.6194°W statement is subject of: Venezuela
- Lowest point
- Laguna del Carbón elevation: -105 m
- Most populous urban area
- São Paulo
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Sources- 1.worldatlas.com/articles/biggest-cities-in-south-america.htmlRetrieved 2025-06-02
- São Paulo
- Coordinates of geographic center
- 21.0000°S, 59.0000°W
On other databases
157 identifiers linking South America across the web's reference databases
- ABC News topic IDsouth-america
- AGROVOC IDc_7253
- AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID47
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID2975
- Apple Maps "auid" identifier17654713384519563515
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID1963
- ArchINFORM location ID3068
- Archive of Our Own tagSouth America
- Armeniapedia ID9575
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID294938656
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/9823
- BabelNet ID00072966n
- Basisklassifikation74.26
- BHCL UUIDaec64783-6189-4c93-9799-5772e2c3cf0c
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID15238513g
- British Museum place IDx28816
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDsudamerika
- Colon ClassificationSG--791
- Comic Vine ID4020-56960
- Curlie IDRegional/South_America/
- Data Commons IDsouthamerica
- Disney A to Z IDsouth-america
- DR topic IDsydamerika
- Edition humboldt digital IDH0010380
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID73280
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/South-America
- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction IDsouth_america
- Eska.pl topic IDtg-h4At-gnV8-qw9J
- EU Knowledge Graph item IDQ200
- Euronews topic IDsouth-america
- EuroVoc ID1624
- FactGrid item IDQ248755
- Famous Birthdays IDregion/southamerica
- Fandom article IDnaturerules1:South_America
- FAST ID1244515
- France 24 topic ID (English)south-america
- France 24 topic ID (French)amérique-du-sud
- France 24 topic ID (Spanish)sudamérica
- Freebase ID/m/06n3y
- GACS ID11434
- GCMD keyword IDb7422ce5-a062-4e96-9a8b-36f9e3809e79
- GEMET ID7947
- GeoNames ID6255150
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID1000002
- Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)3035-2906
- Giant Bomb Wiki IDLocations/South_America
- GitHub topicsouth-america
- Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online IDSouth America
- GND ID4078014-4
- Google Arts & Culture entity IDm06n3y
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDamerica-del-sud
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0003494
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDSør-Amerika
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDiuzhnaia-amerika-6f89a7
- Harper's tagsouth-america
- IAB code1224
- ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID30931
- IDAI.gazetteer ID2181502
- IdRef ID027375099
- ILO Thesaurus ID195
- IMDb keywordsouth-america
- INaturalist place ID97389
- Interlingual Index IDi86219
- IPTC NewsCodeworldregion/r005
- Itch.io tag IDtag-south-america
- J-GLOBAL ID200906003305792620
- J9U entity ID987007560976505171
- Joconde discovery IDT115-4269
- Joconde domain IDT51-117
- Joconde location IDT84-249
- KBpedia IDSouthAmerica
- Klexikon article IDSüdamerika
- KulturNav-ID38a9293b-c324-491c-b2fe-fe33144c1910
- Larousse IDautre-region/Amérique_du_Sud/105176
- LC and MARC vocabularies IDgeographicAreas/s
- LDT@Library Subject Authority ID105096
- Le Monde diplomatique subject IDpays/ameriquedusud
- LEMAC IDLEMAC201232133
- Lex IDSydamerika
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85125524
- Libris-URIxv8bbh3g0d10v0c
- Lille norske leksikon IDSør-Amerika
- M49 code005
- Mapcarta IDSouth_America
- MeSH descriptor IDD013020
- MeSH tree codeZ01.107.757
- MobyGames genre ID211
- Museum-digital place ID2562
- NALT ID7529
- Namuwiki ID남아메리카