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America includes North America and South America. The word America is short for America. The naming of America is generally said to commemorate a famous Italian navigator named Amerigo Weiss Pucci.

In 1499, Amerigo sailed for India with the fleet led by Portuguese ojeda. They sailed along the route taken by Columbus and finally reached the American continent after overcoming many difficulties. Amerigo made a detailed investigation on the northeast coast of South America and compiled the latest map.

In 1507, his book Tales of Sea Travel was published, which caused a sensation all over the world. In this book, the process of "discovering" the new continent is described in a fascinating way, and the mainland is described and rendered vividly. Amerigo announced the concept of the new continent to the world, which suddenly washed away the earth structure system formulated by the absolute authority of western geography in the Middle Ages. Therefore, several French scholars revised and supplemented Pudoremi's masterpiece Cosmology, and named the new continent after Amerigo in recognition of his outstanding contribution to human understanding of the world. After the publication of the new book Cosmology, according to the materials in the book, a new continent, Amerigo, was added to the map. Later, according to the word formation form of other continents, "Amerigo" was changed to "Americana". At first, the name only guided America, and by 1541, on the map of Mercator, North America was also a part of America.