The earliest known use of the name “America” dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to the lands of the Western Hemisphere on a world map. The map was created and published by Martin Waldseemüller, a German cartographer in the town of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, Lorraine, to honor the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci (Latin: Americus Vespucius). Vespucci first postulated that the West Indies did not represent Asia’s eastern limit, as initially thought by Columbus, but instead were part of an entirely separate landmass thus far unknown to the Europeans.
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