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Comment by mnarayan01 | Hacker News Reader

  Also, the map seems only to cover the United States. America extends up to the Arctic and down to Cape Horn.

It looks to me like the map includes Canada. The United States and Canada are the only two countries in the Americas where English is a majority language, so the title seems legitimate.

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There's also the Bahamas, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Belize, and Jamaica; where most of the population speak English or English-based creoles.

And if you count countries that have English as official language there are also Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Saint Lucia. At least.

All combined they have a summed population of more than six million English-dialect-speaking people.

Including those as part of the Americas is certainly reasonably standard, but so is not including them (i.e. restricting the Americas to the mainland). I continue to see nothing problematic about the page title.

Well, in that case you'd need to include Belize and Guyana.

My comment was just a reply to the mention of there being only two English speaking countries in America/Americas. Not about the page title.

While both of those have English as an official language, it is not listed as a majority language for either (though both have an English-based Creole as a majority language so you could probably argue it either way).

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