America

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Contents 1 Arts and entertainment 2 Sports 3 Others 4 See also

America usually means either:

• The Americas, the lands and regions of the Western hemisphere, usually 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

[edit] Arts and entertainment

• America (band), a rock and roll band
• America Pavilion at Epcot in the Walt Disney World Resort
• America (XM), XM Satellite Radio channel 13
• America (video game), a real-time strategy video game by German software company DATA BECKER

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" (Paul Simon song), a song by Simon and Garfunkel
• "America" (Prince song), a song by Prince
• "America" (Neil Diamond), a song by Neil Diamond
• "America", 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 highly 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

Print

• 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" (Judge Dredd story), often voted the greatest Judge Dredd story ever written
• Our America, an essay by José Martí
• Mr. America, an epic event recorded by John Smith

[edit] Sports

• Club America, Mexican football (soccer) team
• América de Cali, a Colombian football (soccer) team
• América Football Club, a Brazilian football (soccer) team
• América Futebol Clube (RN), a Brazilian football (soccer) team
• América Futebol Clube (MG), a Brazilian football (soccer) team
• América Managua, a Nicaraguana football (soccer) team
• America (yacht), a racing yacht that won the first ever America's Cup in 1851

[edit] Others

Transportation

• America (airplane), a multi-engine airplane used by Richard E. Byrd and his crew on a 1927 transatlantic flight
• 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.

[edit] See also

• Amerigo Vespucci, the origin of the name America for the new continent
• Americas (terminology)
• Amerika (disambiguation)
• Use of the word American