Americas

This source names Americas directly: "across Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Americas, Britain, China and elsewhere read the sky as religiously and politically meaningful, from Stonehenge's solstice alignment to the Mesopotamian identification..."

This source names Americas directly: "A contemporary news wire account, filed 19 August 1999, reporting that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Churchwide Assembly, meeting in Denver, voted 1,007 to 11, roughly 98.9 percent..."

This source names Americas directly: "Four years after Yukitaka Yamamoto founded the Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America in 1986, already recorded here, and twenty three years before Mount Fuji joined UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2013..."

This source names Americas directly: "An article from Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, an independent quarterly magazine covering Buddhism in America since 1991, examining published accounts of misconduct by teachers in the early American..."

This source names Americas directly: "shaped European colonial claims in the Americas."

This source names Americas directly: "The Wikipedia entry for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, whose infobox states 2,677,239 baptized members across 8,386 congregations as of 2024, attributed to the denomination's own..."

This source names Americas directly: "Evangelical Lutheran Worship is the current primary liturgical and worship book of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, also serving the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada."

This source names Americas directly: "Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World, Taylor C."

This source names Americas directly: "From 24 to 26 April 2026, the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America held its 39th Annual General Meeting in Orange, California, hosted by the Zoroastrian Association of California."

This source names Americas directly: "A St. Olaf College documentation project on the 1970 decisions of two of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's predecessor bodies to admit women to the pastoral office: the American Lutheran..."

This source names Americas directly: "The Association of Religion Data Archives' timeline entry on the first General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, documenting its 21 May 1789 opening in..."

This source names Americas directly: "Religion News Service reporter Kathryn Post's report, published 7 January 2022, on forty-three congregations formally departing the Reformed Church in America on New Year's Day 2022 to join the..."

This source names Americas directly: "In spring 1706, seven ministers organized the Presbytery of Philadelphia, the first presbytery in what would become the United States, choosing the Irish-born and Scottish-educated missionary..."

This source names Americas directly: "The Christian Reformed Church in North America's own FAQ page on Synod 2022's handling of its Human Sexuality Report."

This source names Americas directly: "This is the Gemological Institute of America's own maintained reference on gemstone identity and properties, and its standing rests on GIA's documented role as the industry's own grading and..."

This source names Americas directly: "General reference encyclopedia biography naming Haan as the leader of the 1857 secession in Holland, Michigan and the specific grievances against the Reformed Church in America, open communion..."

This source names Americas directly: "A 30 second television commercial produced by the United Church of Christ, debuting December 1, 2004, part of the denomination's God Is Still Speaking identity campaign."

This source names Americas directly: "A national policy of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, one jurisdiction within Eastern Orthodoxy under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, governing the investigation and..."

This source names Americas directly: "The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America's own national policy on the investigation and resolution of sexual misconduct complaints against clergy, put into effect by the Holy Eparchial Synod of the..."

This source names Americas directly: "Benjamin E."

This source names Americas directly: "This is Wikipedia's community-edited article on Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, sent by the Halle Pietists to organise colonial Pennsylvania's scattered German Lutheran congregations."

This source names Americas directly: "The historically Black Protestant tradition is one of three classification families the Pew Research Center's Religious Landscape Study uses to sort American Protestant denominations, alongside the..."

This source names Americas directly: "The Christian Reformed Church in North America's own denominational account of the Belhar Confession's origin, written from within the worldwide Reformed family."

This source names Americas directly: "The Orthodox Church in America Holy Synod's 21 July 2022 statement teaching that marriage is reserved to one man and one woman and that any other sexual expression cannot be blessed by the Church..."

This source names Americas directly: "Hope Channel is the official television network of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, launched in the United States on October 10, 2003 as the successor to the church's earlier Adventist Television..."

This source names Americas directly: "Hour of Power began as the televised Sunday service of Garden Grove Community Church, a Reformed Church in America congregation pastored by Robert Schuller, first broadcast February 8, 1970 on KTLA..."

This source names Americas directly: "A statement on Humanists International's own official site, dated 26 June 2013, responding to the U.S."

This source names Americas directly: "Christianity's arrival in the Americas cannot be separated from conquest, and the record here says so plainly rather than softening it."

This source names Americas directly: "Idi Amin's 1972 order expelling Uganda's Asian minority, part of a wider policy across newly independent East African states restricting non-citizen commerce, forced the Jain community that had..."

This source names Americas directly: "Peter A. Piccione's In Search of the Meaning of Senet, published in Archaeology magazine, the Archaeological Institute of America's flagship publication, in 1980, is a scholarly article examining..."

This source names Americas directly: "Mary Beth Norton's In the Devil's Snare, The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692, published by Alfred A."

This source names Americas directly: "Established in 1992 as the official international humanitarian agency of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America, serving Orthodox Christian jurisdictions across..."

This source names Americas directly: "A combined citation covering a bookseller's bibliographic listing of Sakellarides's 1923 printed anthology Sacred Hymns in Three Volumes, and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America's National..."

This source names Americas directly: "From 3 to 6 July 2025, the Federation of Jain Associations in North America held its twenty third biennial convention in Schaumburg, Illinois, under the theme Unity in Diversity, A Path to Peace."

This source names Americas directly: "Wikipedia's article on Jainism in Africa, community-edited."

This source names Americas directly: "Jeffrey Kaplan's academic study of millenarian and radical religious movements in America, published by Syracuse University Press in 1997, carrying a direct scholarly treatment of Else Christensen..."

This source names Americas directly: "The umbrella organization for North America's roughly 141 local Jewish Federations, formed in 1999 as United Jewish Communities through the merger of the Council of Jewish Federations (established..."

This source names Americas directly: "The English Wikipedia article on the Jewish Federations of North America, tracing its lineage to the 1932 National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds and the 1999 United Jewish..."

This source names Americas directly: "Louis Finkelstein's Jewish Self-Government in the Middle Ages, published by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1924, is an early scholarly study of the institutions, such as the kehillah..."

This source names Americas directly: "Nineteen years after Antoine Court convened the first synod of the Church of the Desert in France in 1715, already recorded here, and fifty two years before Louis XVI signed the Edict of Toleration..."

This source names Americas directly: "Richard De Martino's Karen Horney, Daisetz T."

This source names Americas directly: "across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, operating without regard to the faith or nationality of those it serves."

This source names Americas directly: "King's American Dispensatory, revised by Felter and Lloyd for the Eclectic medical movement of nineteenth century America, is a primary historical record of what Eclectic physicians believed and..."

This source names Americas directly: "Legend of the Crystal Skulls, by Jane MacLaren Walsh, published in Archaeology magazine by the Archaeological Institute of America in 2008, is a Smithsonian anthropologist's account of her..."

This source names Americas directly: "Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas, focused on smallholder agriculture, climate adaptation and emergency response, and is a member of the Corus International family of faith-based..."

This source names Americas directly: "Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, sent by the Halle Pietists to organise the scattered German Lutheran congregations of colonial Pennsylvania and to counter Moravian influence among them, landed in..."

This source names Americas directly: "Living Lutheran, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's own magazine, reporting in November 2016 on the Lund commemoration, naming Lutheran World Federation president Bishop Munib Younan and..."

This source names Americas directly: "The humanitarian and development arm of the Lutheran World Federation, established in 1952."

This source names Americas directly: "Encyclopaedia Britannica's topic overview of mainline Protestantism, covering its member denominations and the 1908 founding of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America in Philadelphia..."

This source names Americas directly: "A KPBS Public Media newsroom article on the premiere of Making Black America, Through the Grapevine, confirming Henry Louis Gates Jr."

Africa holds the southwest quarter, at least in its northern strip. The Americas hold no quarter at all.

Asia holds two of the four quarters of the classical chorography. The Americas hold none, because the hemisphere lay outside the inhabited world the scheme divides.

Europe is the northwest quarter of the classical chorography. The Americas were unknown to it and were never assigned a quarter.

Global is not a landmass. It marks material whose spread crosses the continents rather than belonging to one of them.

Named in 1946 for the Americas, chosen deliberately to echo europium, which sits directly above it in the periodic table. An etymological link only, not a claim that the element carries anything of the place.

The United States and Canada in particular. The map places this across the wider Americas, since the population described spans both countries.