0145-SOUTH AMERICA covers 3.5% of the Earth's surface and ranks 4th among continents, as of 2005 it's population was estimated at more than 371,000,000 and ranks 5th, has an area of 17,840,000 square kilometers or 6,890,000 sq mi,
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South America was named in 1507 by cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann after Amerigo Vespucci,