First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

This is such petty semantics, most of the world understands that is is a shortening of The United States of America. In fact most everyone uses some version of “Americans” [1]. 96% of the world refers to America as a continent and I’m sure 96% refer to the US as America too. It’s all about context. I don’t think anyone is genuinely confused most of the time.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonyms_for_the_United_Stat...

You are an editor on CNN.

A person from the US has been elected as the Pope, you have to come up with a title for this news piece.

You have these two options:

A) First American Pope elected ...

B) First US Pope elected ...

A is ambiguous because "American" means a country for 4% of the world and a continent for 96% of the world. Also, the pope that just died happened to be from Argentina, and also happened to be the "First American Pope" for 96% of the world, adding to the ambiguity.

B does not have any issues and is correct from whichever angle you want to approach it.

Which one do you choose?