America is often divided in North America, Central America and South America.
It has an area of 16,000,000 square miles, and 14% of the human population lives in this continent, cover over 8.3% of the Earth's total surface and constitute 28.4% of its total landmass.
The most common origin given for the name America is derived from that of the Italian merchant and navigator Amerigo Vespucci, one of the earliest European explorers of the New World. However, a competing theory has been put forward by Dr. Basil Cottle that America may have been named after a senior collector of Customs at Bristol, Richard Amerik, who was also one of the chief investors in the second transatlantic voyage of John Cabot (the first recorded European to set foot on American soil in May 1497),[1]. How reliable each theory is is open to question as there are no contempory documents of the time that detail how the name America was arrived at.
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