Texas The exploration of the Americas includes: Exploration of North America Age of Discovery § Exploring North America Timeline of the European colonization of North America Colonial history of the United States Exploration of South America Age of Discovery#Inland Spanish expeditions (1519–1532) European colonization of the Americas Voyages of Christopher Columbus Exploration of the Americas United States and Canada Latin America and the Caribbean Latin America Hispanic North America Northern Caribbean Central America South America Sovereign states Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Dependencies andother territories Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Falkland Islands French Guiana Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saba Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Turks and Caicos Islands U.S. Virgin Islands Colonization, decolonization, and neocolonialismBy regionExploration Americas Africa Asia Oceania Antarctica — World oceans Colonization Americas Africa European colonies Asia Southeast Asia Oceania Antarctica Decolonization Americas Africa Asia Oceania GeneraltopicsExploration Maritime history (European) Age of Discovery Colonization Antiquity — Imperialism Chartered companies Interventionism Colonialism chronology history empires detribalization settler colonialism wars Current: Non-self-governing Dependent Colonial empires in the modern era Overseas, major: British Dutch French German Italian Portuguese Spanish Overseas, minor: American Australian Austro-Hungarian Belgian Couronian (Polish-Lithuanian) Danish New Zealand Norwegian Swedish Mostly contiguous: American Chinese Japanese Ottoman Russian South African Decolonization Wars of national liberation — Predecessors of sovereign states in Europe in South America Independence referendum Sovereign states formation dates Postcolonialism Independence Internal colonialism Nation-building Neocolonialism Postcolonial international relations Related concepts Decolonization of knowledge Terra nullius Plantation Settler Indigenous peoples Uncontacted peoples Christianity and colonialism