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    4 days ago

    Nobody except the US and its vassal states refer to it as America. It’s the United States. The Americas are a huge continent of which the US and Canada are but a settler blight in.

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      The US and (some of) its vassal states also happen to be more or less the only majority English speaking countries in the world, and so get to set the meaning of “America” (singular) when used in English.

      With that said, the translation reads “the Americas” (plural) which unambiguously refers to the two continents.