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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After taking a break from this website for the last 3 years, I'm going to say what I've told a Pinterest user named Paul in the comments section of a picture that says "American by Birth - Christian by the Grace of God" right here ...
USA is not friends with my country anymore since 2025 based on multiple reasons. I don't want to pray for U.S. troops at all who have been getting involved in a Iran war during this year of 2026, being as they want to think they are the world's king. There are YouTube videos to this day that say "God warns/warned USA" and some Youtubers say "USA will disappear (within a decade)" which is something I'll be fine with. 🙂 I stand with the American flag (🌎) and I'll try to stay safe.
Obviously USA is a bully (1)to Canada with its president Donald Trump making his rhetoric statement in January 2025 "I believe I can make Canada my country's 51st state by economic force" and (2)to Europe "I need Greenland to be part of my country's land for sovereign protection from Russia and China that might try to invade North American land within the Arctic Ocean (one day in the future)" and (3)to the New World, as a whole country of USA people saying "America/American refers to USA, while the term The Americas collectively refers to the continents of North and South America" and (4)to every country possible (as an example) where Trump is saying since 2025 "I will add 10% tariffs on Canadian Goods" or "100% tariffs on China, etc.".
At last, to all Americans from Mexico to Chile living south of United States (and to Canadians who do acknowledge that America is to The Americas only), I'm saying to either: Keep on convincing USA to stop with their nonsense towards the name America & its demonym American by using United States & United Statesian for their nationality everyday instead and only use America & American for America's 2 continents in everyday usage OR ...
... Pray to Jesus during your spare time that he will use his power to change USA's ridiculous mindset on the words America & American and start using a different short name like United States/United Statesian daily or else change their country's official long name to "United States of Usonia" and use Usonia/Usonian(s) for their country's nationality, being as he loves everyone across the world and knows all of the world's history such as America(n) being written over Brazil first, then over South America second and then America/American officially becoming the name of the New World during the 1500s, which still remains as what it is today! 🙂
USNA: United States of North America
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IN ENGLISH
"America": Informal abbreviation of the name "The United States of America."
IN SPANISH
"América": name of a continent. (In English, in order not to cause confusion among its speakers, the expression "the Americas" is used for this.)
I am surprised that you haven’t written your standard nonsense about how the number of rings on the Olympic flag “proves” that the Americas are one continent. And how the fact that the US is officially named as the ‘United States of America’ at the Olympics “proves” that ‘America’ is not an unofficial name of the US.
Have you finally accepted reality? That would be both surprising and refreshing.
Dude you are in denial.
Please explain
“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington
America is to the United States as Notre Dame is to the Hunchback.
United States is of America not itself America. It derives its long form name by making use of the genitive case "of America," owe to the fact that the name of the hemisphere it was founded on is named America in honor of Amerigo Vespucci in 1507 by Waldseemuller and Ringmann.
Motivation behind promoting the United States as being one and same as America is the need to justify using the continental term American as if it were a nationality. The proper terms are in fact U.S. Citizen, United Statesian and U.S. American.
United States of America: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth251664/
i added your site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonyms_for_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonyms_for_the_United_States#See_also
U.S. Propaganda throughout the Anglo-sphere of influence does not outweigh the truth
America is to the United States as Notre Dame is to the Hunchback.
United States is of America not itself America. It derives its long form name by making use of the genitive case "of America," owe to the fact that the name of the hemisphere it was founded on is named America in honor of Amerigo Vespucci in 1507 by Waldseemuller and Ringmann.
Motivation behind promoting the United States as being one and same as America is the need to justify using the continental term American as if it were a nationality. The proper terms are in fact U.S. Citizen, United Statesian and U.S. American.
United States of America: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth251664/
American is everyone that's from what's genuinely America, The New World. The qualified term American refers to a specific group of Americans. Just like qualifying the term European refers to a specific group of Europeans. This is like having to explain that sports cars are cars.
e.g.
North AMERICAN
Central AMERICANS
South AMERICANS
Insular AMERICANS
Meso AMERICANS
Latin AMERICANS
Anglo AMERICANS
etc.. are all AMERICANS.
The mental gymnastics that it takes to ignore the term AMERICAN in everyone of those in favor of and insisting on hold on to an obvious misconception promoted by one's arrogant predecessors throughout the anglos-sphere is remarkable to say the list.
But guess we shouldn't be surprised given the fact that we live in a world where a man can legally claim to be a woman and those who fail to acknowledge them as such can be fired from their job and/or be sued.
A common argument by US Americans against using a demonym like "United Stater" is that it takes the more bureaucratic part of its official full name (The United States of America), however there seems to be no problem with doing so with that of the United Arab Emirates, which is "Emirati". In other words, it is not a fair issue, but rather a matter of using one that they really liked, or because they did not want to correct the one they used when they were not yet a single country, but a confederation of several.