America
America, referred to as the Americas, is located in the Western Hemisphere, natural geography is divided into North America and South America, an area of 42.549 million square kilometers, accounting for 8.3% of the Earth's surface area, land area of 28.4%. Human geography divides it into Anglo-American (mostly English) and Latin America (mostly in Spanish and Portuguese). The Americas region has about 950 million inhabitants, accounting for 13.5% of the total human population. The earliest American immigrants who discovered and immigrated to the Americas were descendants of East Asian descent, about 10,000 years ago. For the Europeans, the Americas was not known at first, after being navigator Columbus discovered in 1492, and mistaken for India, so that the local people for the Indian spread today. After the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci name, and still in use today. The first was Spain and Portugal immigrants to the Americas, and later the Netherlands, Britain, France also immigrated there. In 1776, the Americas was born the first Western colonial independent state - the United States. ...