1.North America and South America are named after Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
2.Vespucci was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not part of the East Indies, but an entirely separate landmass.
3.Home to the citizens of Canada, the United States, Greenland, Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and the island countries and territories of the Caribbean Sea and western North Atlantic Ocean.