Why is America named America and not Colombia?
| March 25, 2021 | education
Christopher Columbus was the discoverer of the American continent. Only he was wrong: he thought it was part of India. Therefore, they did not assign the name of the discoverer to the present territory of the United States. There is one version according to which America received its modern name in honor of the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
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