America was put on the map 500 years agoIn 1507, a cartographer came up with a name for the New World — and it stuck By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER , Associated Press April 25, 2007 ...

After mapmakers in 1507 first attached the label America to a massive world map printed in France, they began to have serious misgivings about their choice of words.

Map from 1507 an Early Look at 'America' The year was 1507. A landlocked German cartographer created a surprisingly accurate map of the world, and used the word "America" to honor explorer Amerigo ...

Panelists talked about a map made in 1507 by German mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller. It is considered one of the world's rarest maps and believed to be the first map to name America. They discussed ...

Tucked away in a geometry book at the Munich University Library, researchers found a 500-year old map of the new world, and one of the first to show the name “America”.

The headline above the map from 1937 screams: If we Enter a World War-and LOSE!The map explains which parts of U.S. territory could be gobbled up by the victors of that alternate WWII and why, but ...

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Google Maps now labels the Gulf of America for U.S. users, and the Gulf of Mexico for those in Mexico. This isn't the first body of water to have different names according to different countries.