Indeed, U.S.A. is not America!
America is the name of a whole continent. United States of America means that the United States belongs to America and NOT that America belongs to the United States. So, next time you want to refer to The United States of America, you can do it as U.S. or the States or whatever you want but not as only America. Gotcha?
How should I use the term America then?
Here we will show you some wrong and correct uses of the term America:
This is how we do it in America.
This is how we do it in the States.
- America is my country and I love it.
- The United States is my country and I love it.
- America lost the Vietnam war.
- U.S.A. lost the Vietnam war.
- Here in America we love Mc Donald's.
- Here in the U.S. we love Mc Donald's.
Please, note that this page in not about demonyms (gentilics) but about the way to call a country.
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I am here to educate you. You obviously need it. Why do you refuse to be educated?
opinion
Pronunciation /əˈpinyən/ /əˈpɪnjən/
NOUN
* A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/opinion
This perfectly describes the opinions of Dave and Craig. They are in no way based on facts or knowledge. Your teachers would be mortified if they read your posts.
Your educations were a complete waste of taxpayer money and/or your parents’ money. What utter embarrassments you are.
When someone says Africa, I would never think about it as the country named "South Africa" because geographically the word "Africa" is a continent.
When that same one person says America, which other continent do I think about?, or, do I think about "The United States"?, same deal here.
Any time someone start talking about South Africa I will not think about it as the country at first. It will require more contexts from the speaker to identify it as a country because of natural grammar logic.
Same deal with the word "America" and "The United States" issues.
"The United States Of America"
You learned about history in school, you first surely also learned about grammar to a certain level.
They teach about what is a sphere or cube in grammar. And we know that a sphere or cube has North, South, West and East.
This is applied when designing a map and it is common sense to describe it that way.
Just like it is common sense to understand that Africa is a continent and not a country.
Just like it is common sense to understand that America is a continent and not a country.
If "South Africa" is a country, why was not "The United States" named just "America"?.
According to the Stupid David facts "United States" is a short form from its original name "The United States of America".
Stupid David and your facts, if it is a name, it is "The United States Of America", a capital letter is used!.
But, you are stupid.
https://www.un.org/en/member-states/
https://www.un.org/en/member-states/
The continent supports Spanish claims to the region by flying the flag of Castile, but is not given the name of America. Instead, in its southern regions, it is named ‘Parias’ in capital letters. So the great birth certificate of America actually calls North America ‘Parias’, a word taken from Vespucci’s account of his meeting with the local inhabitants who used it to designate their homeland.
The map reserves the name ‘America’ to describe the southern land mass, and is placed in the location of modern-day Brazil.”
From: A History of the World in 12 Maps by Jerry Brotton; p. 174
“The name for the northern land mass, Parias, is derived from a passage in the Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci....”
“Parias was described by Waldseemüller's follower, Johannes Schöner as: "The island of Parias, which is not a part or portion of the foregoing [America] but a large, special part of the fourth part of the world", indicating uncertainty as to its situation.”
“PARIAS and AMERICA, corresponding to North and South America, are separated by a strait in the region of the present Panama on the main map but on the miniature map inset into the upper-mid part of the main map the isthmus joining the two is unbroken, apparently demonstrating Waldseemüller's willingness to represent alternative solutions to a question yet unanswered.”
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Waldseemüller_map
“North America is called ‘Parias’ – ‘America’ is used to label the South American coast all the way down to the present-day port of Cananéia, Brazil.”
https://bit.ly/2YTii9z
“Waldseemüller’s America actually identified what is today South America. “Parias” is the name Waldseemüller identified with what is today North America.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/apr25/america-beautiful/
“The name America, such a natural poetic counterpart to Asia, Africa and Europa, had filled a vacuum, and there was no going back, especially not after the young Gerardus Mercator, destined to become the century's most influential cartographer, decided that the whole of the New World, not just its southern part, should be so labeled. The two names he put on his 1538 world map are the ones we've used ever since: North America and South America.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-waldseemuller-map-charting-the-new-world-148815355/
The same map that has North and South Africa.
Same map you stupid idiot.
Who needs explanations, you just seems to be spamming this website with your stupid copy and paste facts.
"The United States Of America"
https://www.un.org/en/member-states/
This is also the first map to apply the name America to the North American continent as well as to South America and to differentiate North and South America as separate continents. In using the term “America” in this way, Mercator shares responsibility with Martin Waldseemüller for naming the Western Hemisphere.
https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/854/
Published in 1538, the Orbis Imago, is the first map of the world drawn up by Gerard Mercator. It is his second published map. It is not completely original: Mercator copied the Nova et Integra Universi Orbis Descriptio by Orontius Finaeus from 1531, but made a few significant changes. For example, ‘America’ was used to refer to both North and South America for the first time, with both parts of the New World joined together as one continent. Mercator also separated Asia and North America.
http://bc.library.uu.nl/unusual-view-fairly-unknown-world.html
The map is notable for a new interpretation of the name "America". As far as it is known, the new continent was named "America" by Martin Waldseemuller in 1507, who applied the name only to the southern continent.
This viewpoint was common over the years. However, Mercator viewed the landmass discovered by Columbus as a single part of the world comprising both continents and, in 1538, he signed on the map, mentioned above, accordingly, 'America. The northern part' and 'America. The southern part'.
http://expositions.nlr.ru/eng/map_merkator/2.php