Library of Congress

On april 30, 2007, almost exactly 500 years after the creation of the map, the Walseemüller Map was transferred by Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, and is now stored in the Library of Congress. It is known as the first map to use the name "America". The map was created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, in the small French town of Saint-Dié in the Vosges in 1507. He made the map after many years of remarkable discoveries of the world by people such as Columbus, John Cabot, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, and Americo Vespucci.

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