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The word "America" was first used by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in 1507 on a map, naming the continent in honor of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Vespucci's voyages and writings helped establish the understanding that the lands discovered were part of a new continent, separate from Asia.
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