Our Approach

One Reference. Every Country. No Shortcuts

AmericasPedia exists to build one thing: a complete, source-cited reference for every country in the Western Hemisphere, down to the cities and boroughs that make them up.

We are mapping the Americas country by country, organized into four regions for easy browsing: North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. Today, all 35 countries are live, each with a real infobox of core facts. Five of our six topic areas, history, politics and governance, economy and trade, culture and society, and geography and environment, are complete for every one of those 35 countries, with new articles published regularly. Countries & Regions, our sixth topic area, is still in its early stages.

A note on scope: "all 35 countries" means the Americas' 35 sovereign, UN-recognized nations. Territories and dependencies, such as Guadeloupe, Martinique, the Cayman Islands, and Puerto Rico, aren't yet included. We may expand coverage to these places in the future; for now, this scope keeps our research and sourcing focused and consistent.

The next layer is cities and boroughs. We are starting with major cities, the ones we can find solid, verifiable information on, rather than committing upfront to covering every city and borough in all 35 countries. That scope will grow deliberately over time.

Our guiding principle is depth over sprawl. We do not publish a page just to have it exist. Every layer we add has to link back into real, standing content and give a visitor somewhere further to go. A country page that dead-ends, or a topic with no articles behind it, works against the reason AmericasPedia exists, so we would rather leave a layer unbuilt than ship it half finished.

That is also why some sections of the site are still labeled as in progress. We would rather tell you a page is coming than pad it with filler.

For how we research, source, and review the content itself, see our Sourcing and Editorial Standards page.