Where did the word 'America' come from?

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It came from Italian cartographer Amerigo Vespucci.
The European Explorer who landed in what is now America. His name was Amerigo Vespucci.
Americo Vespuci

Okay...so I need a spell checker. And he never landed here...he just wrote about the new world...and got most things INCREDIBLY wrong
they beat me to it
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) America was named after him in 1507. He was an explorer.
"America" came from the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
Amerigo Vespucci. An Italian explorer who first traveled to South America and continued to travel throughout the Americas.
I believe it was derived from the name of a man that created some of the original maps of this region, Amerigo Vespucci.
from the original person who discovered America
Amerigo Vespuccis, a cartographer who mapped the "new world."

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