The name, America

[Let'sgoflying!]

Who do we have to thank for the name of this country? Were you taught this in grade school? No clue?

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

It was a German cartographer, Martin Waldseemüller who named it after the feminine version of the first name of the Italian explorer/cartographer, Amerigo Vespucci.

Sorry, forgot the [NA] notation in the title.

 

[timwinters]

Who do we have to thank for the name of this country?

Thomas Paine

Martin Waldseemüller

You can thank him for naming our continents as the title of your thread implies.