Canada and Latin/South America have been fighting the same fight for ages. Doesn't work. "Europe" = EU, "America" = US. Sometimes even "Africa" = South Africa (depending on the topic). It's a large enough territory and it has the name of the continent in its official name. Good luck trying to correct people.

In Europe is more like "Plays the FIFA Euro cup" = "Europe" :p

Technically the European Championship is run by UEFA, which isn't directly part of the FIFA (but recognized by it).

Also, by that logic Israel is part of Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA#Members

Though I guess Israel must be European if it's also in the Eurovision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_in_the_Eurov...

Upon closer inspection participation in the Eurovision Song Contest is restricted to countries that are members of the European Council or members of the European Broadcasting Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Broadcasting_Union#Me...

Here's an idea: a map of countries overlaid with membership in the various "EU" groups (i.e. including EC, EEA etc), membership in UEFA, membership in the EBU and participation in the Eurovision Song Contest (per year). That should answer the question of Europeanness of individual countries once and for all.

I found this image[1] that shows the overlap of Council of Europe, European Free Trade Association, European Economic Area, European Union, Euro Zone, EU customs Union, Schengen Area. Unfortunately my source is a tweet that didn't mention original source.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClsjOjxUkAEldmL.jpg:large

Yeah, I saw that a while back. It's what inspired my quip.

Now just add UEFA, EBU and Eurovision ;)

> "America" = US.

Correct. The way to refer to North and South American countries as a group is "the Americas".

Incidentally, the USA is the only country that has the word "America" as part of its official name.