South America

continent in the Western Hemisphere

South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest.South America was named in 1507 by cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann after Amerigo Vespucci, who was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a New World unknown to Europeans. South America has an area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890,000 sq mi), or almost 3.5% of the Earth's surface. As of 2005, its population was estimated at more than 371,000,000. South America ranks fourth in area (after Asia, Africa, and North America) and fifth in population (after Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America).
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Noun
1. a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama
(hypernym) continent
(part-holonym) western hemisphere, occident, New World
(member-meronym) South American
(part-meronym) South American country, South American nation
2. the nations of the South American continent collectively; "South America is an important market for goods from the United States"
(hypernym) collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
(member-meronym) American