“It is a map of South America and a part of Central America, as Hitler proposes to reorganize it … This map makes clear the Nazi design not only against South America but against the United ...

With information on capitals, years of independence, political developments, and other details on each country, the map below features the array of life that is South America.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, with the Equator running directly through the continent.

The first of three maps “visualizing the progress of President-Elect Herbert Hoover around South America appears this week in TIME. The Hoover Odyssey is chronicled in National Affairs.