Oceania is the best continent
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2024
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Always at war with Eastasia.
Italy is a part of Africa. At least, geologically.
North and South America I can see either way, but splitting Europe and Asia is insane.
I once tried to find a definition of "subcontinent", but all I found was that its almost solely used for India and sometimes for dividing North and South America into to two American subcontinents.
Eurasia and Oceania sure, quibble all you like that makes sense to me. But combining the Americas and pushing Africa in with Asia makes no sense to me.
Same. I think having a tiny land bridge shouldn't be enough when the idea of a continent is to identify the largest masses of land separated by oceans, especially when disconnected land can still be a part of a contenent.
My list would be:
- North America
- South America
- Eurasia
- Africa
- Oceania
- Antarctica
I can see the combined Americas and Africa combined with Eurasia if the idea is land masses that separate oceans, but oceans are as arbitrary as continents so I don't think that is a useful definition.
Eh, they're all just big and bigger islands, because every land mass is surrounded by water.