but this goes back a long time, when there were still no countries, there were only some native kingdoms, this part was discovered, the whole new world was called America as a continent because supposedly Americo Vespucci was the one who realized that they were new lands Basically, the entire territory was called America and they only differed by viceroyalties but now it is already divided into regions such as NA, Central America and South America

There is Europe. Asia. America (new world). Africa. Oceania. Antarctica. America's aka north and south is just to know where it is located. Same like there is west east and etc of europe.but we don't break every region into separate in tournaments do we. That's just basic first grader information. Edit: the easiest example would be if Na and Sa is 2 different continents then asia would be way more and oceania would be 2 continents too. Simple maths ma boy

This is just part of the story and how did it come to be called America You have to go back a long time, since the continent was discovered, it was called America by Americo Vespucci, there were still no countries and they referred to these lands as a single America that was divided into viceroyalties. But of course now it was already divided into regions to differentiate certain regions, for example here we divide it into 3 regions North America, Central America and South America

1) When Christopher Columbus arrived in the new world, he arrived in the Bahamas, U.S has no legitimate claim to the exclusivity of the demonym. 2) "America" was synonym for the new world, the western hemisphere, of course it was absolutely accepted as a single continent with a couple off-land islands. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldseem%C3%BCller.. (maps of the time) upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c.. U.S only gets to steal and appropriate the "american" demonym semi-officially post 1815 as UK settles its hegemony with the outcome of Waterloo. America is 1 continent, what it was divided by was its peoples and traditions. It was understood that the western hemisphere would be a continuation of peoples from the old world. The Latins would continue their traditions in their respective provinces, Hispano-America, Luso-America and Franco-America. Anglo-America was a massive shithole like you can't even imagine, you genuinely can't cognitively make that image because your mind doesn't have the knowledge to build that frame, but after UK defeats France and later on manages to cancel the Holy Alliance, the whigs in the U.S can finally enforce the Monroe Doctrine on the rest of the continent, they were all Anglos though.