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Language is about usage not about historical accuaracy. In english
the word America refers to the United States of American and The Americas
refers to the combined areas of North and South America.
Historically though, the first usage of the word America occured in
1507 on the Waldseemüller wall map, and the word is right on top of modern-day Brazil
and refers to the discovered new world from a European perspective, modern-day
America is not even on that map. That was the usage for at least 3 centuries and
the original meaning of The USA, United States of(belonging to) America(the new world).