America

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America usually means either:

• The Americas, the lands and regions of the Western hemisphere
• The United States of America, a country in the Americas

[edit] Other places

• America, Netherlands
• América, Buenos Aires in Argentina
• 916 America, a minor planet of the solar system

[edit] Art and entertainment

• America (band), a rock band
• America (XM), XM Satellite Radio channel 10
• 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

• "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" (often known as "America"), patriotic song of the United States
• "América" (Perales song), a song by Spanish singer and composer José Luis Perales
• "America" (Motörhead song), 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" (Razorlight song), the second single by Razorlight on their self-titled album
• America, a song by Marcy Playground from their 1999 album Shapeshifter
• 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).
• América 2, an Argentinian television station
• America: From Freedom to Fascism, 2006 documentary

Print

• America (2002 novel), a young adult novel by E. R. Frank
• America (book), a book by Jean Baudrillard examining the USA sociologically
• America (The Book), a book written by the staff of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• "America" (poem), 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Others

Vessels

• America (airplane), a multi-engine airplane used by Richard E. Byrd and his crew on a 1927 transatlantic flight
• America (airship), an airship flown in 1907 and 1909 attempts to reach the North Pole, and a 1910 attempt to cross the Atlantic
• America (automobile), an automobile produced in Barcelona, Spain
• America (1911 New York automobile), an early American automobile
• USS America, the name of three United States Navy ships
• SS America (1940), a passenger liner owned by the United States Lines
• America, the callsign of the Apollo 17 Command/Service Module

People with the given name America

• America Ferrera, an American actress.

[edit] See also

• Americas (terminology)
• Amerika (disambiguation)
• American (disambiguation)
• American (word)
• Amerigo Vespucci

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