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What’s the difference between Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center?

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Cape Canaveral is the site of a U.S. Space Force station and many spacecraft have been launched from there. The Kennedy Space Center is on Merritt Island to the north, but because of their close proximity, the two names are often used interchangably. (From 1963 to 1973, Cape Canaveral was called Cape Kennedy.)