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It is a simple general knowledge question.

Answer is Christopher Columbus. Discovered america in 1492

Christopher Colombus was the one. He also discovered West Indies.

This is one question that makes me feel 'did anyone really find a country'

In fact the country was always there and bubbling with activities when people from other places came and took control at gun point. And that made them founders. My question is - was a country a Barron land at the time of its 'discovery'? 

Columbus is known as the founder of America. 

Columbus is not founder of America. Columbus discover America by mistake. Indeed he was in search of India but he reached South America. He gave called Red Indian to the peoples of America.

An Italian navigator Christopher Columbus is the first man who discovered America. But the country is named after another Italian navigator called Amerigo Vespucci. Columbus found a new world in America, but Vespucci was the first man who recognized that it was a new world. This is the reason why America got the name AMERICA.