Maps of South America, which are available on this website, are blank outline map images, maps of lakes and rivers or political maps. The Azimuthal Equal-Area projection and also equidistant projection are used for these map images.
The surface area of South-America (17,840,000 km²) makes 12% of total landmass of the World. The population (about 392,555,000) of South-America is 6% of the population of Earth.