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Fig. 111. In area South America, with about 7,570,000 square miles, is not much smaller than 
North America, which has 8,590,000 square miles. The difference between the two in population 
is much greater, South America having about 64,000,000 inhabitants and North America about 
136,000,000. This gives South America a population of a little more than 8 to the square mile 
while North America has nearly 16 to the square mile. 
What part of the United States is in the belt of north latitude corresponding to the south lati- 
tude of Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile? About how much of South America is within the tropics? 
Why are large parts of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia not tropical in climate? 
Find a city in the United States that corresponds in latitude with Buenos Aires and Montevideo. 
What city in the northern hemisphere corresponds in latitude with Rio de Janeiro? Is Rio de 
Janeiro or Santiago more directly south of New York? 
Note that the names on this map are in the Spanish form. Where in South America is Portu- 
puese the official lancuce? French? Enelish? Dutch?