Americas
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Summary
Americas is a supercontinent[1]. Americas ranks in the top 7% of supercontinent entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (40,501 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Christopher Columbus[3]
- Instance of: part of the world[4], continent[5]
- Named after: Amerigo Vespucci[6], Darien Gap[7]
- Part of: Earth's surface[8], Earth[9]
- Commons category: Americas[10]
- Said to be the same as: New World[11]
- Has part(s): South America[12], North America[13], Central America[14], Latin America and the Caribbean[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: October 12, 1492[16], -30000-00-00T00:00:00Z[17]
- Highest point: Aconcagua[18]
- Coordinate location: 19, -96[19]
- Topic's main category: Category:Americas[20]
- Commons gallery: America[21]
- Population: 1,035,298,985[22], 1,055,385,441[23]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Americas[24]
- Coordinates of northernmost point: 83.11138888888888, -69.95833333333333[25]
- Coordinates of southernmost point: -56.53826111111111, -68.72005[26]
- Coordinates of easternmost point: -7.155555555555556, -34.793055555555554[27]
- Coordinates of westernmost point: 52.92111944444444, 172.43708055555555[28]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[29], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[30], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[31], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[32], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[33], Encyclopedic Lexicon[34], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[35], Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia[36], Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste[37], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[38], The Catholic Encyclopedia[39], New International Encyclopedia[40], The New Student's Reference Work[41], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[42]
- Category for people born here: Category:Births in the Americas[43]
- Category for people who died here: Q21993394[44]
- Demonym: American[45], amerikanisch[46], americano[47], Américain[48], Américaine[49], americana[50], americani[51], americane[52], Amerikano[53]
- Lowest point: Laguna del Carbón[54]
- Category for films shot at this location: Category:Films shot in America[55]
- Category of associated people: Category:People of the Americas[56]
Body
Works and Contributions
Things named for Americas include United States[57], a sovereign state[58], in United States[59], founded in 1776[60]; Confederate States of America[61], a historical unrecognized state[62], in Confederate States of America[63], founded in 1861[64]; Circuit of the Americas[65], a motorsport racing track[66], in United States[67], founded in 2010[68]; americium[69], a chemical element[70]; Holambra[71], a municipality of Brazil[72], in Brazil[73], founded in 1993[74]; Euramerica[75], a supercontinent[76]; American[77], a word[78]; and America[79].
Why It Matters
Americas has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[80] Americas is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[81]
Entities named for Americas include United States[57], a sovereign state[58], in United States[59], founded in 1776[60]; Confederate States of America[61], a historical unrecognized state[62], in Confederate States of America[63], founded in 1861[64]; Circuit of the Americas[65], a motorsport racing track[66], in United States[67], founded in 2010[68]; americium[69], a chemical element[70]; Holambra[71], a municipality of Brazil[72], in Brazil[73], founded in 1993[74]; and Euramerica[75], a supercontinent[76].