America
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The word America has several meanings:
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Geographical and political
- The United States of America.
- The Americas - North, Central, and South America.
- America, Netherlands - a small town in the Netherlands.
- America, Cambridgeshire - a small town in Cambridgeshire, England.
- Amerika (Germany) - a small town in Saxony, Germany
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Other
- Amerigo Vespucci an Italian traveler and cartographer.
- America is an alternate title for the patriotic song, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee".
- America the Beautiful - a patriotic song.
- America (song) - a song by the 1960s folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel.
- America (band) - a rock and roll band; also the title of their debut album.
- America (movie) - 1924 film directed by D.W. Griffith.
- America (yacht) - a racing yacht that won the first ever America's Cup in 1851.
- America (airplane) - multi-engine airplane used by Richard E. Byrd and his crew on a 1927 transatlantic flight.
- America (commercial ship) - passenger liner commanded by George Fried involved in famous sea rescue in 1929.
- America (magazine) - weekly Catholic magazine
- America (The Book), a book written by the staff of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
- Amerika (novel) (Franz Kafka novel)
- America (book), a book by Jean Baudrillard examining the state sociologically.
- America is a song from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, also performed by the UK rock group The Nice.
- Amerika is the title of an album of the German rock group BAP and the title of a song inside this album.
- USS America - three United States Navy ships have been called USS America.
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