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The first human inhabitants of North America are believed to be of Asian origin; they crossed over to Alaska from NE Asia roughly 20,000 years ago, and then moved southward through the Mackenzie River valley. European discovery and settlement of North America dates from the 10th cent., when Norsemen settled (986) in Greenland. Although evidence is fragmentary, they probably reached E Canada c.1000 at the latest. Of greater impact on the subsequent history of the continent were Christopher Columbus's exploration of the Bahamas in 1492 and later landings in the West Indies and Central America, and John Cabot's explorations of E Canada (1497), which established English claims to the continent. Spanish and French expeditions ... explored much of North America.
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All of the regions outside North America posted sales gains for the year. The Middle East / North Africa region led the growth with a 64 percent increase (21,171 units) over 2006. Latin American sales increased 22 percent (45,199 units), Eastern Europe was up 30 percent (12,775 units), and Asia Pacific grew 22 percent (33,715 units). Western / Central Europe, which accounts for roughly half of Chrysler's International sales, achieved six percent growth in 2007 (117,675 units).
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North America is roughly wedge shaped, with its broadest expanse in the north. Most of its bulk is in the middle latitudes, with a considerable northern section in the Arctic and a narrow part around the tropic of Cancer. The continent sprawls east-west across some 176° of longitude, from longitude 12° west at Nordost Rundingen (Northeast Foreland) in northeastern Greenland to longitude 172° east at the western extremity of Attu Island, Alaska. Its north-south extent is some 69°, from latitude 83° north at Cape Morris Jesup in eastern Greenland to latitude 14° north in southern Mexico. North America is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean; on the east by the Atlantic Ocean; on the south by the Gulf of Mexico, Central America, and the Pacific Ocean; and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. The area of the continent is 23.7 million sq km (9.2 million sq mi).
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North and South America are popularly accepted as having been named after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. Vespucci was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies, but a different landmass previously undiscovered by Europeans. Vespucci was the first to discover South America and the Amerique mountains of Central America, which connected his discoveries to those of Christopher Columbus. The etymology is further complicated by the need of cartographers to come up with a name that paralleled the feminine names of the other continents (e.g. Europa, Asia, Africa etc.). The convention is to use the surname for naming discoveries except in the case of royalty
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