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South America

continent located mainly in the southwestern quadrant of the Earth
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South America
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Summary

South America is a continent[1]. It draws 47,195 Wikipedia views per month (continent category, ranking #5 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in or next to body of water: Atlantic Ocean[3], Pacific Ocean[4], Caribbean Sea[5]
  • Instance of: subcontinent[6], statistical territorial entity[7], part of the world[8]
  • Shares border with: Central America[9], North America[10], Continental Central America[11]
  • Contains the administrative territorial entity: Argentina[12], Brazil[13], Chile[14], Peru[15], Colombia[16], Bolivia[17], Venezuela[18], Paraguay[19], Ecuador[20], Guyana[21], Uruguay[22], Trinidad and Tobago[23]
  • Part of: Americas[24], Earth[25], Latin America[26]
  • Commons category: South America[27]
  • Located in time zone: UTC−06:00[28], UTC−05:00[29], UTC−04:00[30], UTC−03:00[31], UTC−02:00[32]
  • Has part(s): Argentina[33], Bolivia[34], Brazil[35], Chile[36], Colombia[37], Ecuador[38], Malvinas Islands[39], French Guiana[40], Guyana[41], Paraguay[42], Peru[43], South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands[44], Suriname[45], Uruguay[46]
  • Highest point: Aconcagua[47]
  • Located in/on physical feature: Southern Hemisphere[48], Northern Hemisphere[49]
  • Topic's main category: Category:South America[50]
  • Commons gallery: Sudamérica - América do Sul[51]
  • Population: 385,742,554[52], 438,104,941[53]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:South America[54]

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for South America include Bridge of the Americas[55], a through arch bridge[56], in Panama[57], founded in 1962[58] and South America Glacier[59], a glacier[60].

Why It Matters

South America has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[61] It is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[62]

Entities named for it include Bridge of the Americas[55], a through arch bridge[56], in Panama[57], founded in 1962[58] and South America Glacier[59], a glacier[60].

Related Entities

Aconcagua Amazon River Anaconda Andalien River Andes Apurímac River Araguaia River Argentina Aruba Bananas Beni River Bermejo Bío Bío River Bolivia Brazil Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Cannibal Holocaust Chile Colombia country Easter Island Ecuador Empire of Brazil Evita Goioerê Guyana Hulk Iguazu River Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego Japurá River

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . workwithdata.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  51. [53] ↑ . worldometers.info. Retrieved . worldometers.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  52. [54] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [55] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [59] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [56] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [57] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [58] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [60] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [61] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [62] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Xezbeth · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 343
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'abstract', 'ace', 'ady', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ann', 'anp', '
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ All the tropes article id: no value"
  2. 15d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Reddit topic id → south_america
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Reddit topic id: south_america, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/143992985|South America (#143992985)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5528|Reddit topi"
  3. 18d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    J-global id → 200906003305792620
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ J-global id: 200906003305792620, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/262295707|South America (#262295707)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7507|J-GLOBA"
  4. 20d ago · CameoJewel · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'abstract', 'ace', 'ady', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ann', 'anp', '
    Fandom article id → naturerules1:South_America, marvel:South_America
    Sitelink count → 343
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Fandom article id: marvel:South_America, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/324142151|South America (#324142151)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8466|Marve"
  5. 5w ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14560 → 10537
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14560: 10537, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/294605480|南美洲 (#294605480)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8077|Taiwan Central News Agency (C"
  6. 6w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of iceland id → 981014198786706886
    Coordinates of geographic center → {'lat': -21, 'lon': -59}
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ National library of iceland id: 981014198786706886"
  7. 12w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lille norske leksikon id → Sør-Amerika
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Lille norske leksikon id: Sør-Amerika, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/166538119|Sør-Amerika (#166538119)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6325|Lille nors"
  8. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Eska.pl topic id → tg-h4At-gnV8-qw9J
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Eska.pl topic id: tg-h4At-gnV8-qw9J, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/250702823|Ameryka Południowa (#250702823)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7420|esk"
  9. 17w ago · LadyData · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Locations/South_America
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Locations/South_America, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/293246765|South America (#293246765)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7990|G"
  10. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → south-america
    Local thumb → —
    Svkkl authority id → g0001867-Jizni-Amerika
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: g0001867-Jizni-Amerika, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  11. 23w ago · MarisDreshmanisBot bot · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Number of out-of-school children → {'amount': '+5474014'}, {'amount': '+6925760'}, {'amount': '+7072744'} +14
    Geoshape → Data:South America.map
    Aliases → —
    Part of → Americas, Earth, Latin America
    + 48 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||koi, fiu-vro, zh-yue, ny, bo, mad, be-x-old, kge, no, kcg, zh-min-nan, li, simple, als, bat-smg, kaj */ Add 16 multilingual descriptions extracted from Wikipe"
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