Location of America Continent
America Continent
" America Continent consists of 2 large parts which are
North America and South America"
North and South America are popularly accepted as having been named after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by the German cartographer Martin Waldseem?ller. Vespucci was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a new world previously undiscovered by Europeans. Vespucci was the first to discover South America and the Amerique mountains of Central America, which connected his discoveries to those of Christopher Columbus. The etymology is further complicated by the need of cartographers to come up with a name that paralleled the feminine names of the other continents (e.g. Europa, Asia, Africa etc.). The convention is to use the surname for naming discoveries except in the case of royalty[citation needed] and so a derivation from "Amerigo Vespucci" may be problematic. The second and less generally accepted theory is that the continents are named after an English merchant named Richard Amerike from Bristol, who is believed to have financed John Cabot's voyage of discovery from England to Newfoundland in 1497. A minutely explored belief that has been advanced is that America was named for a Spanish sailor bearing the ancient Visigothic name of 'Amairick'. Another is that the name is rooted in an American Indian language.
North America and South America"
North and South America are popularly accepted as having been named after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by the German cartographer Martin Waldseem?ller. Vespucci was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a new world previously undiscovered by Europeans. Vespucci was the first to discover South America and the Amerique mountains of Central America, which connected his discoveries to those of Christopher Columbus. The etymology is further complicated by the need of cartographers to come up with a name that paralleled the feminine names of the other continents (e.g. Europa, Asia, Africa etc.). The convention is to use the surname for naming discoveries except in the case of royalty[citation needed] and so a derivation from "Amerigo Vespucci" may be problematic. The second and less generally accepted theory is that the continents are named after an English merchant named Richard Amerike from Bristol, who is believed to have financed John Cabot's voyage of discovery from England to Newfoundland in 1497. A minutely explored belief that has been advanced is that America was named for a Spanish sailor bearing the ancient Visigothic name of 'Amairick'. Another is that the name is rooted in an American Indian language.
North America:
third largest of the seven continents, including Canada (the 2nd largest country in area in the world), the United States (3rd largest), and Mexico (14th largest). The continent also includes....... (More)
South America:
fourth largest of the Earth's seven continents (after Asia, Africa, and North America), occupying 17,820,900 sq km (6,880,700 sq mi), or 12 percent of the Earth's land surface. It lies astride the equator and....... (More)
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"Cities of North America"
North America is the third largest continent of the world. There are 23 countries in this continent. Some of the countries in North America continent are United States of America, Canada, Greenland, and Mexico. In this section of the site, a directory of all the top cities of North America is given. Some of the top cities of North America are New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Montreal, and Mexico City.
"Cities of South America"
South America is the fourth largest continent of the world. There are 12 countries in South America. Some of the top countries in South America are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela. In this section of the site, a directory of all the top cities of South America is given. Some of the top cities of South America are Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Sao Paolo, and Bogot.
