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Originally Posted by 10023
You might not have, but there are many contexts in which “North America” is used to refer to the United States and Canada.
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I have also heard this occasionally and increasingly as a contrast to "Latin America" but still far more often than not, it is used to describe the actual landmass and its associated countries and territories; Panama up to Greenland as well as the Caribbean.
People in Spanish speaking countries (Brazil too I think) are taught that North and South America are a singular continent rather than two separate continents.