Who was the first person to call America the New World?

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Answer: Amerigo Vespucci

Vespucci (1454-1512) made two trips to the New World as a navigator and claimed to have discovered it.

In his published works, he was the first to put forward the idea that it was a new continent and was first to call it Novus Mundus, New World.

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