With information on capitals, years of independence, political developments, and other details on each country, the map below features the array of life that is South America.

Today, due to modern maps and precise methods of measuring ... To the left of Europe, it showed a long, thin version of South America, with a small-sized North America above it.

Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America is farther east than North America. Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, with the Equator running directly through the continent.

Map of South America showing the change in the number of days of simultaneous heat, dryness, and fire risk between the periods 1971–2000 and 2001–2022. This is Fig 1a from the published paper.

The first of three maps “visualizing the progress of President-Elect Herbert Hoover around South America appears this ... at one point), and other modern carriers are in project.