Regardless of which definition you go with, someone saying North and South America are one continent but Europe and Asia are two separate continents are at the very least being inconsistent
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I'm of the unpopular opinion that India/Pakistan should be its own continent and New Zealand should be different continent then Australia. Both because they are different techtonic plates.
It's hard to have a strict definition when there are only 4-12 of them. We didn't have a strict definition of planets until less than 20 years ago.
There's two definitions in my language. One for land mass continent (eurasia) and the other is more of a geopolitical continent if that makes sense (europe, asia)
I think English needs the same.
Italy is a part of Africa. At least, geologically.
Yes, I personally love 4 continents. Americas, Afro-Eurasia, Oceania, Antarctica
If you're gonna group them like that, there's no Americas, it's America.
I think people write Americas because when just writing America too many people assume the US.
Yeah, I'm just being pedantic.
Technically correct. Which is best kind of correct.
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I don't accept the grouping of Africa and Eurasia as one
Yeah. People in the US learn about 7 continents at school. In France, we learn about the 5 continents.
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The borders between Europe and Asia are absolutely arbitrary and the border between Asia and Africa is the Suez Canal
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I remember many years ago I was playing WoW and the conversation in guild chat was about continents so I said that in my country America is a single continent. That moment an American in guild flipped the fuck out and got really mad at me even suggesting that his great country could be in the same continent as mine (Brazil) going as far as saying "that's so fucking dumb, next you will say Europe and Asia are the same continent?!" which is funny cause eurasia is a thing, what a dumbass.
Mexico is in North America, but try telling that the common trump supporting gringo.
I remember when central America was a thing.
Edit: Apparently even considering the existence of Central America Mexico is still North America
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A friend of mine went from a school in the US to a French school, and when she said there were 7 continents, everyone including the teacher made fun of her.
Dogmatism goes both ways.
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Personally a great fan of the CGP Grey videos. Continents in this case: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBcq1x7P34
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There also isn't a strict definition of when a pond becomes a lake
Or when a lake becomes a sea. The Alboran Sea is smaller than Lake Superior. The Caspian Sea is a lake. Everything is made up and nothing is real.
When your mom gets in it
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There is a useful way to do it: By looking at Tectonic Plates and their boundaries.
According to the image on Wikipedia depicting the plates, there would then be 17 continents, although some of those 17 would be entirely ocean, or only small islands
That map is pure chaotic good vibes.
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And then India is no longer in Eurasia. Or you could say that Los Angeles is not in North America.
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