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    5 days ago · The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World. Along with their associated islands, the Americas cover 8% of Earth's total surface area and 28.4% of its land area.

  2. 2 days ago · By Grace Jidoun May 10, 2024, 4:30 PM ET. Tom Hanks Monologue. The Americas, a 10-part nature documentary series slated to debut on NBC in February 2025 does something radical: it explores areas ...

  3. 2 days ago · Latin America [c] is a collective region of the Americas where Romance languageslanguages derived from Latin —are predominantly spoken. [4] . The term was coined in France in the mid-19th century to refer to regions in the Americas that were ruled by the Spanish, Portuguese, and French empires.

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  4. May 3, 2024 · It is the southern portion of the landmass generally referred to as the New World, the Western Hemisphere, or simply the Americas. The continent is compact and roughly triangular in shape, being broad in the north and tapering to a point— Cape Horn, Chile —in the south.

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  5. 6 days ago · Americas, the two continents, North and South America, of the Western Hemisphere. The climatic zones of the two continents are quite different. In North America, subarctic climate prevails in the north, gradually warming southward and finally becoming tropical near the southern isthmus.

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  6. 6 days ago · history of Latin America, history of the region from the pre- Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th-century wars of independence, and developments to the end of the 20th century.

  7. 4 days ago · During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late 15th century and the early 19th century.

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