Americas

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geographical area landmass region

The Americas are the combined landmasses of North and South America, encompassing a vast region of diverse cultures, climates, and ecosystems in the Western Hemisphere.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form	Occurrences
the Americas	5
America	3
Inter-American region	1
Region of the Americas	1
Section of the Americas	1

Statements (135)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical area ⓘ landmass ⓘ region ⓘ
borderedByOcean	Arctic Ocean ⓘ Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Pacific Ocean ⓘ Southern Ocean ⓘ
containsCountry	Antigua and Barbuda ⓘ Argentina ⓘ Bahamas ⓘ Barbados ⓘ Belize ⓘ Bolivia ⓘ Brazil ⓘ Canada ⓘ Chile ⓘ Colombia ⓘ Costa Rica ⓘ Cuba ⓘ Dominica ⓘ Dominican Republic ⓘ Ecuador ⓘ El Salvador ⓘ Grenada ⓘ Guatemala ⓘ British Guiana ⓘ surface form: Guyana Haiti ⓘ Honduras ⓘ Jamaica ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Nicaragua ⓘ Panama ⓘ Paraguay ⓘ Peru ⓘ Saint Kitts and Nevis ⓘ Saint Lucia ⓘ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ⓘ Suriname ⓘ Trinidad and Tobago ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States Uruguay ⓘ Venezuela ⓘ
containsSubregion	Alaska ⓘ Amazon Basin ⓘ Amazon rainforest ⓘ surface form: Amazon Rainforest Andes ⓘ Antilles ⓘ Appalachian Mountains ⓘ Atacama Desert ⓘ Brazilian Highlands ⓘ Arctic Archipelago ⓘ surface form: Canadian Arctic Archipelago Canadian Shield ⓘ Caribbean ⓘ Central America ⓘ Central Valley ⓘ surface form: Central Valley of California Great Lakes region ⓘ Great Plains ⓘ Guatemala Highlands ⓘ Guiana Shield ⓘ Gulf of Mexico ⓘ Isthmus of Panama ⓘ La Plata Basin ⓘ Labrador Peninsula ⓘ Orinoco Llanos floodplains ⓘ surface form: Llanos Mesoamerica ⓘ Mississippi River basin ⓘ surface form: Mississippi River Basin Orinoco Basin ⓘ Pampas ⓘ Patagonia ⓘ Rocky Mountains ⓘ Sierra Madre Occidental ⓘ Sierra Madre Oriental ⓘ Sonoran Desert ⓘ Tierra del Fuego region ⓘ surface form: Tierra del Fuego Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ
continentPart	North America ⓘ South America ⓘ
hasClimateType	Mediterranean climate ⓘ arid climate ⓘ polar climate ⓘ temperate climate ⓘ tropical climate ⓘ
hasCulturalCharacteristic	ethnic diversity ⓘ linguistic diversity ⓘ religious diversity ⓘ
hasEcosystem	coral reef ⓘ desert ⓘ grassland ⓘ rainforest ⓘ savanna ⓘ temperate forest ⓘ tundra ⓘ wetland ⓘ
hasHighestPoint	Aconcagua ⓘ
hasHistoricalEvent	Columbian Exchange ⓘ European colonization of the Americas ⓘ indigenous civilizations ⓘ
hasIndigenousCivilization	Ancestral Puebloans ⓘ Aztec Empire ⓘ surface form: Aztec civilization Inca Empire ⓘ Maya civilization ⓘ Mississippian culture ⓘ Olmec civilization ⓘ
hasLanguageFamily	Afro-Asiatic languages ⓘ Germanic languages ⓘ Indigenous American languages ⓘ Romance languages ⓘ
hasMajorColonialPower	Denmark ⓘ France ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ Portugal ⓘ Spain ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
hasMajorLake	Lake Erie ⓘ Lake Huron ⓘ Lake Michigan ⓘ Lake Nicaragua ⓘ Lake Ontario ⓘ Lake Superior ⓘ Lake Titicaca ⓘ
hasMajorRiver	Amazon River ⓘ Mississippi River ⓘ Missouri River ⓘ Orinoco River ⓘ Paraná River ⓘ Rio Grande ⓘ Saint Lawrence River ⓘ Yukon River ⓘ
locatedInHemisphere	Northern Hemisphere ⓘ Southern Hemisphere ⓘ Western Hemisphere ⓘ
separatedFromContinent	Africa ⓘ Eurasia ⓘ
separatedFromContinentByWaterBody	Bering Strait ⓘ Drake Passage ⓘ

Referenced by (192)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright → UNESCORegion → Americas ⓘ

Chaco Culture National Historical Park → UNESCOWorldHeritageRegion → Americas ⓘ

Olympic National Park → UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteRegion → Americas ⓘ

Roma → alsoLivesIn → Americas ⓘ

Early Modern period → appliesTo → Americas ⓘ

Fifth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the OAS → appliesToJurisdiction → Americas ⓘ

Monroe Doctrine → appliesToJurisdiction → Americas ⓘ

Spanish colonization of the Americas → appliesToJurisdiction → Americas ⓘ

class E – History of the Americas → appliesToRegion → Americas ⓘ

subject surface form: Class E – History of the Americas

Romance languages → areSpokenIn → Americas ⓘ

Samsung Engineering → areaServed → Americas ⓘ

Pacific Islands → borderedBy → Americas ⓘ

Vatican Radio → broadcastArea → Americas ⓘ

Western Hemisphere → centeredOn → Americas ⓘ

Spanish real → circulationArea → Americas ⓘ

National Museum of Ethnology → collectionCoverage → Americas ⓘ

this entity surface form: the Americas

Crown of Castile and Crown of Aragon → colonialExpansion → Americas ⓘ

subject surface form: Crown of Castile

Columbian Exchange → connects → Americas ⓘ

Spanish galleon trade → connects → Americas ⓘ

British Overseas Territories → continent → Americas ⓘ

Canada women's national under-20 soccer team → continent → Americas ⓘ

Caribbean islands → continent → Americas ⓘ

Dominican Republic national baseball team → continent → Americas ⓘ

French colonial empire → continent → Americas ⓘ

General Assembly of the Organization of American States → continent → Americas ⓘ

Latin America → continent → Americas ⓘ

NOIRLab → continent → Americas ⓘ

Pan American Games → continent → Americas ⓘ

Pan American Sanitary Conference → continent → Americas ⓘ

Pan American Union → continent → Americas ⓘ

Pan-American Highway → continent → Americas ⓘ

Patagonian Desert → continent → Americas ⓘ

Pre-Columbian era → continent → Americas ⓘ

Spanish America → continent → Americas ⓘ

Special Committee for Trade Development and External Economic Relations → continent → Americas ⓘ

America/Santiago → continentComponent → Americas ⓘ

this entity surface form: America

South America → continentOf → Americas ⓘ

Luis Almagro → continentOfActivity → Americas ⓘ

2012 Summer Olympics basketball tournament → continentRepresentation → Americas ⓘ

Philip the Great → continentRuled → Americas ⓘ

subject surface form: Philip IV of Spain

Committee on Hemispheric Security → continentScope → Americas ⓘ

Catholic Church in the Americas → continentServed → Americas ⓘ

Inter-American Commission of Women → continentServed → Americas ⓘ

Inter-American Council for Integral Development → continentServed → Americas ⓘ

Union of American Republics → continentServed → Americas ⓘ

Ahmanson Building collection → coversGeographicRegion → Americas ⓘ

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 → coversRegion → Americas ⓘ

WHO regional office network → coversRegion → Americas ⓘ

Romani → diasporaRegion → Americas ⓘ

Colinus → distribution → Americas ⓘ