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

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.

Colubrina → distribution → Americas ⓘ
Mimus → distribution → Americas ⓘ
Nyctaginaceae → distribution → Americas ⓘ
Philortyx → distribution → Americas ⓘ
subject surface form: Trema
Pouzolzia → distributionRegion → Americas ⓘ
Laportea → foundIn → Americas ⓘ
EQUIS → geographicCoverage → Americas ⓘ
Samsung C&T → hasAreaServed → Americas ⓘ
NEC → hasBusinessArea → Americas ⓘ
Atlantic world → hasCoreRegion → Americas ⓘ
Richemont → hasGlobalPresenceIn → Americas ⓘ
Middle Passage → hasLocation → Americas ⓘ
this entity surface form: the Americas
Nikkei → hasMajorRegion → Americas ⓘ
this entity surface form: Section of the Americas
America/Bogota → ianaArea → Americas ⓘ
this entity surface form: America
Numida meleagris → introducedTo → Americas ⓘ
this entity surface form: Region of the Americas
Antilles → locatedIn → Americas ⓘ
British West Indies → locatedIn → Americas ⓘ
Dutch Caribbean → locatedIn → Americas ⓘ
French Caribbean → locatedIn → Americas ⓘ
Latin America → locatedIn → Americas ⓘ
Paleo-Indian period → locatedIn → Americas ⓘ
Petit Martinique → locatedIn → Americas ⓘ
Spanish West Indies → locatedIn → Americas ⓘ