Maps of The American Continent

Maps of the Countries

Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Ecuador Grenada Guatemala

Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Lucia St Kitts & Nevis St Vincent & the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad & Tobago Uruguay USA Venezuela

 

Territories and Islands

Anguilla - UK

Aruba - Netherlands

Bermuda - UK

Bonaire, Sint Maarten and Curacao

Cayman Islands - UK

Easter Island (Isla da Pascua) - Chile

Falkland Islands - UK (Islas Malvinas)

French Guiana

Greenland - Denmark

Guadeloupe - France

Puerto Rico - USA

Saint Pierre and Miquelon - France

Virgin Islands

America is a continent divided into four parts: South America, Central America, North America and the Antilles.

America was named, in 1507, by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller after Italian merchant and explorer Amerigo Vespucci. After navigating with Portuguese along the Brazilian coast, Vespucci envisioned that there would be a "New World" on that part of the Planet. Not to be confused with the lands discovered by Columbus years before. Originally, America was a part of South America, mostly Brazil and its westward extension to the Pacific Coast, then not yet discovered by Europeans.

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Maps of The American Continent