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[[Image:South_america.jpg|thumb|right|200px|South America]]

[[Image:South_america.jpg|thumb|right|200px|South America]]

Continent of the [[Southern Hemisphere]], and part of the [[Western Hemisphere]]. To the west it borders the [[Pacific Ocean]], to the east it borders the [[Atlantic Ocean]],  and the [[Caribbean Sea]] and [[North America]] are northwest of it.

'''South America''' is a [[continent]] in the [[Southern Hemisphere]], and part of the [[Western Hemisphere]]. To the west it borders the [[Pacific Ocean]], to the east it borders the [[Atlantic Ocean]],  and the [[Caribbean Sea]] and [[North America]] are northwest of it.

Like North America, it is part of the [[Americas]], and it was named after [[Amerigo Vespucci]]. Being the fourth largest continent by area, it is 17,8400 km (6,890,00), and covers almost 3.5% of the earth's surface. (Largest continent by area is [[Asia]], then [[Africa]] and North America.)

Together with North America it forms the [[Americas]], and it was named after [[Amerigo Vespucci]]. It is the fourth largest continent by area at 17,840,000 km² (6,890,000 sq miles), and covers almost 3.5% of the earth's surface.

It is also the fifth continent by population. (First Asia, then Africa, [[Europe]], and North America) In 2005, the population was over 371,000,000.

Its population in 2005 was 371 million, the fifth largest of the continents.

[[Category:Continents]]

[[Category:Continents]]