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I was taught that North and South America formed one large continent called the Americas.
This makes complete sense. But let’s not act like Europe isn’t just a peninsula of Asia.
If we go by plate tectonics, NA and SA are distinct continents, as they are on different plates. Europe and Asia are definitely one Eurasian continent though, as they are on the same plate.