America

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geographical region landmass world region

America is the landmass in the Western Hemisphere comprising the continents of North and South America, widely recognized for its vast geographic, cultural, and political diversity.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region ⓘ
landmass ⓘ
world region ⓘ
characterizedBy cultural diversity ⓘ
geographic diversity ⓘ
political diversity ⓘ
contains Amazon Basin ⓘ
Amazon River ⓘ
Andean region ⓘ
Andes ⓘ
surface form: Andes Mountains

Appalachian Mountains ⓘ
Atacama Desert ⓘ
Brazilian Highlands ⓘ
Canadian Shield ⓘ
Caribbean Sea ⓘ
Caribbean archipelagos ⓘ
Gran Chaco ⓘ
Great Lakes region ⓘ
Great Plains ⓘ
Guiana Highlands ⓘ
Gulf of Mexico ⓘ
Isthmus of Panama ⓘ
Mesoamerican region ⓘ
Mississippi River basin ⓘ
surface form: Mississippi River system

Pampas ⓘ
Patagonia ⓘ
Rocky Mountains ⓘ
Sierra Madre Occidental ⓘ
surface form: Sierra Madre mountain system

Yucatán Peninsula ⓘ
dependent territories ⓘ
numerous sovereign states ⓘ
continentGroup North America ⓘ
South America ⓘ
extendsFrom Arctic region ⓘ
extendsTo Southern Ocean vicinity ⓘ
hasCulturalCharacteristic ethnic diversity ⓘ
multilingualism ⓘ
religious diversity ⓘ
hasEconomicCharacteristic developed economies ⓘ
developing economies ⓘ
hasHistoricalProcess Atlantic slave trade ⓘ
European colonization ⓘ
independence movements ⓘ
hasOceanBoundary Arctic Ocean ⓘ
Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
Pacific Ocean ⓘ
Southern Ocean ⓘ
hasPoliticalSystems democracies ⓘ
federal states ⓘ
republics ⓘ
unitary states ⓘ
hasSubregion Caribbean ⓘ
Central America ⓘ
North America ⓘ
South America ⓘ
isCommonlyDividedInto Caribbean ⓘ
surface form: Caribbean region

Latin America ⓘ
North America ⓘ
surface form: Northern America
locatedInHemisphere Western Hemisphere ⓘ
majorLanguageFamilies Afro-Asiatic languages ⓘ
Germanic languages ⓘ
Indigenous American languages ⓘ
Indo-European languages ⓘ
Romance languages ⓘ
nameAlsoRefersTo United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States of America (in common usage)
nameLanguage English ⓘ
partOf Earth ⓘ
World ⓘ

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

America/Regina → areaComponent → America ⓘ
Atlas Maior → containsMapsOf → America ⓘ
America/Regina → continent → America ⓘ
America Ferrera → givenName → America ⓘ