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Why do people say North America when they really mean just the US and Canada?

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i believe the Central America are differentiated than the NA though

it's always like NA (Canada and US)

Central (Mexico and their surroundings + the islands above Venezuela and Carribean Sea)

and the Latin/South America

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i believe the Central America are differentiated than the NA though

it's always like NA (Canada and US)

Central (Mexico and their surroundings + the islands above Venezuela and Carribean Sea)

and the Latin/South America

NA is Canada, the US and Mexico

Latin America is (most of) South + Central + Mexico

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i believe the Central America are differentiated than the NA though

it's always like NA (Canada and US)

Central (Mexico and their surroundings + the islands above Venezuela and Carribean Sea)

and the Latin/South America

 

That's how they teach us at school, at least where I'm from

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According to Wikipedia:

"The term North America maintains various definitions in accordance with location and context. In Canadian English, North America may be used to refer to the United States and Canada together. Alternatively, usage sometimes includes Greenland and Mexico (as in the North American Free Trade Agreement), as well as offshore islands. The UN geoscheme for "North America" separates Mexico from the United States and Canada, placing it instead within its designated "Central America" region, while also treating the islands of the Caribbean separately from the US/Canada definition — the UN's "North America" definition still includes the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland together with the US/Canada continental definition, with both insular entities being tectonically on the North American plate.

 

In Iran, and several Romance-language cultures, the cognates of North America usually designate a subcontinent of the Americas comprising Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and often Greenland, Saint Pierre et Miquelon, and Bermuda."

 

So I guess the definition varies depending on how it's being used in context and depending on who is using it/where it's being used?

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Why do people say American when they talk about US ?

 

AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE THE ONE LIVING IN : 

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Because United Statesian sounds really awkward.
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Because yall can easily call yourselves Salvadorian, Haitian, Mexican, etc. Are we supposed to call ourselves United States of Americans?
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