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The Americas were named after Amerigo Vespucci rather than Christopher Columbus

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The Americas were indeed named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, as cartographer Martin Waldseemuller applied the Latinized form 'America' to his map in honor of Vespucci's realizations.

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