Americas
North America and South America taken together as a single continent or landmass
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)
1
Sources- 1.“Population by Continent 2025”worldpopulationreview.com/continentsRetrieved 2025-07-21
- , 1.04B(2023)
- 1.06B(2025)
All data
139 statements · 11% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Demonym
- American language: English
1
- amerikanisch language: German
- americano language: Spanish · grammatical gender: Q499327 · grammatical number: Q110786
- Américain language: French · grammatical gender: Q499327
- Américaine language: French · grammatical gender: Q1775415
- americano language: Italian · grammatical gender: Q499327 · grammatical number: Q110786
- americana language: Italian · grammatical gender: Q1775415 · grammatical number: Q110786
- americani language: Italian · grammatical gender: Q499327 · grammatical number: Q146786
- American language: English
- Highest point
- Q39739 elevation: 6,962 m
1
Sources- 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
- Q39739 elevation: 6,962 m
- Different from
- Q15885537
- Q55416584
- United States
- Q11285125
- Q35720826 criterion used: Q107214772
- Q89022170
- Lowest point
- Q1780252 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: Q298
- Coordinates of westernmost point
- 52.9211°N, 172.4371°E statement is subject of: Q204403
- Coordinates of northernmost point
- 83.1114°N, 69.9583°W statement is subject of: Q1728311
On other databases
81 identifiers linking Americas across the web's reference databases
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID95576
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID15515
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID294898212
- Basisklassifikation74.24
- BHCL UUIDb554d92c-7c4a-46a8-aefc-f6ccb0dca4bf
- Biblissima authority IDQ27681
- British Museum place IDx95100
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDamerika
- Catholic Encyclopedia ID01409c
- Climate Policy Radar TopicsQ2038
- Colon ClassificationSG--7
- De Agostini IDAmèrica
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID73275
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Americas
- Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID43982
- EuroVoc ID1587
- FactGrid item IDQ464934
- FAST ID1239786
- Freebase ID/m/07c5l
- GACS ID14692
- GeoNames ID10861432
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID8698314
- GND ID4001670-5
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDamerica-1
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0003440
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDAmerika
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDamerika-fbdd09
- Gujarati Vishwakosh entryઅમેરિકા
- IDAI.gazetteer ID2042928
- ILO Thesaurus ID188
- Interlingual Index IDi84962
- J9U entity ID987007293917705171
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID1384
- Joconde discovery IDT115-4266
- Joconde domain IDT51-114
- Joconde location IDT84-173
- Klexikon article IDAmerika
- KSW place ID77262
- Larousse IDautre-region/Amérique/105171
- Le Monde diplomatique subject IDpays/ameriques
- LEMAC IDLEMAC201201053
- Lex IDAmerika
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85004220
- M49 code019
- McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia IDA/america
- MeSH descriptor IDD000569
- MeSH tree codeZ01.107
- Museum-digital place ID6160
- Namuwiki ID아메리카
- NDL Authority ID00560163
- NicoNicoPedia word article IDアメリカ大陸
- NL CR AUT IDge129120
- NRK topic ID1.901817
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning155
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID4019207
- Österreichisches Musiklexikon Online IDA/Amerika
- PM20 geo codeE1
- Provenio UUIDbf7026db-697f-4bd6-849f-1d5adcb62214
- Quora topic IDAmericas
- Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri IDgeografico/1114830
- STW Thesaurus for Economics ID17758-5
- SVKKL authority IDg0001928-Amerika
- TDV Encyclopedia of Islam IDamerika
- The Guardian topic IDworld/americas
- Treccani IDamerica
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia IDamerica
- U.S. National Archives Identifier10035684
- UMLS CUIC0002454
- UN Thesaurus ID1000260
- UNESCO Thesaurus IDconcept754
- UVL group IDamerica
- VIAF cluster ID236775925
- Vikidia article IDit:America
- Vokrug sveta article IDАмерика
- WikiKids IDAmerika_(continent)
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID09218493-n
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJm4RCm6YkM7rBXbfvKKh3
- X (Twitter) topic ID1286379401228124160
- Yale LUX IDconcept/849d28e5-123b-419f-8440-ff13dc8c773d
- YSO ID106017
- Zhihu topic ID19749739