There is no sovereign state called "England"; you mean the UK.

How often do people refer to the USA as "America." It's not quite as pedantic as "it's a republic not a democracy," but...

	▲	umanwizard 2 years ago \| parent [-]
		The difference is that "America" has no other meaning (in English, that is. In some other languages it means the landmass we call "the Americas"). Whereas "England" means something different from the UK.