America
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America usually means either:
- The Americas, the lands and regions of the Western hemisphere, often divided into North America and South America
- The United States of America.
Other places
- America, Netherlands
- América, Buenos Aires in Argentina
- 916 America, a minor planet of the solar system
Art and entertainment
- America (band), a rock and roll band
- America (XM), XM Satellite Radio channel 13
- America (video game), a real-time strategy video game
Albums
- America (album), an album by the band America
- America (Havalina album), an album by the band Havalina
- America (John Fahey album), an album by John Fahey
Songs
- America the Beautiful, an American patriotic song by Katharine Lee Bates
- "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", a patriotic song of the United States, with lyrics by Samuel Francis Smith
- "América" (Perales song), a song by Spanish singer and composer José Luis Perales
- "America" (Motörhead song) is a song by Motörhead on their Iron Fist album
- "America" (Paul Simon song), a song by Simon and Garfunkel
- "America" (Prince song), a song by Prince
- "America" (Neil Diamond song), a song by Neil Diamond
- "America" (Leonard Bernstein song), a song from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, also performed by the UK rock group The Nice
- "America", a song by Marcy Playground from their 1999 album Shapeshifter
- "America" (Razorlight song), the second single by Razorlight on their self-titled album
- America - The EP, an extended play by Rebecca St. James, on which she sings the song "America"
- "America, Fuck Yeah", the satirical theme song of the 2004 film Team America: World Police
Television and film
- America (film), a 1924 film directed by D.W. Griffith
- América (soap opera), a Brazilian telenovela (soap opera).
- America (television station), an Argentinian television station
- 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
- America (magazine), a weekly Roman Catholic magazine
- America (hip hop magazine), covering hip hop culture
- "America" (Judge Dredd story), a Judge Dredd story by John Wagner
Sports
- América Football Club (disambiguation), name of a number of football (soccer) clubs in Latin America.
- America (yacht), a racing yacht that won the first ever America's Cup in 1851
Others
- Transportation
- America (airplane), a multi-engine airplane used by Richard E. Byrd and his crew on a 1927 transatlantic flight
- America (automobile), an automobile produced in Barcelona, Spain
- USS America, the name of three United States Navy ships
- SS America (1940), a passenger liner owned by the United States Lines
- People with the given name America
- America Ferrera, an American actress.