  South AmericaTheSouth America is continent or subcontinent or the southern part of theAmerica, as the point of view. The continent is located entirely within theWestern Hemisphere mainly in theSouthern Hemisphere. It is bordered to the west by thePacific Ocean and north and east by theAtlantic Ocean. TheCentral America, which connects the sub- continent to theNorth America, And Caribbean are located north - west.
The language of counting the largest number of speakers in South America is the PortugueseFollowed very closely bySpanish
South America was named in 1507 by cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Mathias Ringmann from Amerigo Vespucci, Who was the first European to suggest that theAmerica were not East India but New World unknown to Europeans.
South America has an area of 17,840,000 km2This represents 3.5 % of the surface of the Earth. At 2005, Its population was estimated at more than $ 371 million . The gentilé its inhabitants are " South Americans " . South America ranks fourth in area ( after theAsia, TheAfrica andNorth America) and fifth in population ( after Asia, Africa , Europe and North America ).
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