America is usually meant as either:

• the Americas, the lands and regions of the Western hemisphere, usually subdivided into North America and South America
• the United States of America

See also: Americas (terminology) and Use of the word American.

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America may also refer to:

• America, Buenos Aires in Argentina
• America, Netherlands in Limburg
• America, a part of the parish of Sutton-in-the-Isle in Cambridgeshire, England

In entertainment:

• America the Beautiful, is an American patriotic song by Katharine Lee Bates
• "América" (Perales song), a song by Spanish singer and composer José Luis Perales
• "America" (Paul Simon song), a song by Simon and Garfunkel
• "America" (Prince song), a song by Prince
• "America" (Neil Diamond), a song by Neil Diamond
• "America" (Samuel Francis Smith song), a song written by Samuel Francis Smith
• America (band), a rock and roll band
  • America (album), the title of their debut album
• America (Havalina album), an album by the band Havalina
• America (John Fahey album), an album by John Fahey
• America (movie), a 1924 film directed by D.W. Griffith
• America (E. R. Frank novel) - a young adult novel by E. R. Frank
• America (The Book), a book written by the staff of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• America (book), a book by Jean Baudrillard examining the USA sociologically
• "America", a poem by Allen Ginsberg, which was later recorded by Tom Waits
• "America", a song from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, also performed by the UK rock group The Nice
• America (XM), XM Satellite Radio channel 10
• América (soap opera), a Brazilian telenovela (soap opera).
• America (television station), an Argentinian television station
• America (magazine), a weekly Roman Catholic magazine
• America Pavilion at Epcot in the Walt Disney World Resort
• "America" (Judge Dredd story), often voted the greatest Judge Dredd story ever written

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