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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.
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.)
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.