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Who do we have to thank for the name of this country? Were you taught this in grade school? No clue?
The name, America
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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.
Sorry, forgot the [NA] notation in the title.
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Thomas Paine
You can thank him for naming our continents as the title of your thread implies.