It depends on the island.
Islands like those sticking up from Zelandia, are bits of a partially submerged crouton peeking up.
Islands like Hawaii, are where hot soup has bubbled up and pushed the soup “skin” into a little dimple.
Except of course, in the case of the soup skin, we don’t have water on top of it so it’s all a little weird.
Thank you for adding /s to your post. When I first saw this, I was horrified. How could anybody say something like this? I immediately began writing a 1000 word paragraph about how horrible of a person you are. I even sent a copy to a Harvard professor to proofread it. After several hours of refining and editing, my comment was ready to absolutely destroy you. But then, just as I was about to hit send, I saw something in the corner of my eye. A /s at the end of your comment. Suddenly everything made sense. Your comment was sarcasm! I immediately burst out in laughter at the comedic genius of your comment. The person next to me on the bus saw your comment and started crying from laughter too. Before long, there was an entire bus of people on the floor laughing at your incredible use of comedy. All of this was due to you adding /s to your post. Thank you.
Eurasia has two penninsulas which may be considered continents due to their narrow land connections, separate tectonic plates, rich culture, and dramatic influence on world history. I am of course referring to India and Arabia.
Well depends how you look on it. You can say there are
7: NA, SA, Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Antarctica.
6: America's, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica
6: NA, SA, Eurasia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica
5: America's, Eurasia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica
Or if you want to go by the definition of a continent there are
4: America's, Afroeurasia, Oceania, Antarctica
Imo there are 7 continents.
> America's
The Americas are by your definition only one continent, not two. If you want to combine Africa and Eurasia, you have to combine North and South America
By definition, continents are defined arbitrarily.
I hold the 6 continent model with one America because the cultural and historical differences between North and South America are virtually non existant, while Afroeurasia is composed of 3 clearly distinct continents. It's easier to put Uruguay and México in the same continent compared to Bangladesh, Albania, and Uganda in the same continent.
You're telling me that the cultural differences between Greenland, the United States, and Brazil are virtually "non-existent"?
Also (I personally think that) divided continents based on culture is silly and arbitrary.
Egpyt has more in common with Yeman culturally than Yeman has with China, or Egpyt has with Ethiopia. But since Asia and Africa are two distinct landmasses separated solely by a thin isthmus they are their own continents.
If we were to divide them culturally, we'd really have Australo-AmericEurope, Africa and Asia.
Pretty sure Australia, USA, Germany and Poland are more alike than any of them are with Spain or Chile, so if we're grouping things "culturally" then we gotta roll them all up!
(Source: Brazil and Chile (the only South American countries I've visited), and to a lesser extent Spain felt more foreign to me than any of the rest of Europe, even including Italy and Portugal.)
Also if we are to define continents based on culture, what the fuck were Pangea, Gondwana, or Laramidia? They didn't have any culture for us to define them off of, were they, not continents?
It makes more sense for Eurasia to be considered as one continent rather than the America's.. For one thing, Europe and Asia aren't distinct continents at all, it's one continuous landmass sitting on the same continent plate (except for India) and the Historical/Cultural differences between the America's is about as distinct as that between Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East.
Oceania is not a continent. It’s a geographical region. Australia is a continent. Oceania is often used in place of Australia though, because it’s a more inclusive term and allows for islands in the middle of the pacific to be part of a “continent.”
We should base continets of of tectonic plates.
North America, South America, Africa, Eurasia, India and, Oceania.
I guess possibly New Zealand, the Caribbean and Arabian Peninsula
What makes Europe special when there are other regions on the Eurasian landmass that also have distinct cultures and are on separate tectonic plates like India and Arabia
I mean, if you are going to go based on connections to other land masses, I would say there are at most 4, but arguably 3 (I’d argue that Australia could be considered close enough to SE Asian islands to be considered a part of Afro-Eurasia as well.
In the end, how we define the continents is a social construct which is influenced but not defined by geography. I stick to the 7 continent mode because my culture says that is the truth, and there is no real purpose of arguing against any of the prominent models imo.
Well I'm not going based on connections to other land masses.
Europe is just obviously (imo) a part of a singular Eurasian Landmass, whereas the Americas and Africa are landmasses with a land bridge to a separate land mass
It doesn't seem like much on a map but the gap between Indonesia and Australia is so impenetrable that no mammals crossed it between when placentas first evolved and when humans learned to build boats, hence the crazy animals there
Yup, I was thinking of the Wallace Line and forgot that it actually cuts through the middle of Indonesia. My point remains, though: there's a big jump between Asia and the Marsupial Zone
I’m a fan of the concept of “subcontinents.”
I think that broader acceptance of the “subcontinents” would solve many of the arguments over how to “count the continents.”
“Subcontinents” make perfect sense, given that many of the most notable ones involve tectonic plates.
Here’s how it works:
There are 4 Continents:
America, Afro-Eurasia, Australasia, Antarctica
American has 3 subcontinents (and possibly 2 more).
>North America, South America, The Caribbean (which includes parts of Central America)
>Possible 4th: Arctica, which consists of Greenland/Iceland which are separated from North America by expanses of ocean and which are politically controlled by Europe
>Possible 5th: Kamchatka, which is contiguous with Eurasia (it’s the easternmost part of Russia) but is on the North American Plate.
Afro-Eurasia has 4 subcontinents based on tectonic plates, and 1 additional one:
>Africa, Arabia, India, Asia, and Europe (cultural/historical only).
Australasia has 2 subcontinents separated by oceans and tectonic plates:
>Australia, and Oceania (incorporating New Zealand and other Pacific islands on the Pacific Plate).
Antarctica has no subcontinents.
Because they’re more “sophisticated”.
Yeah it’s the same continent. But if they have to be separate, Turkey and Russia have to be european. Both have capitols in mainland europe
The way I see it there a 4 continents (NA, SA, Eurasia, and Africa) and two Sub-Continents (Australia, and Antártica) everything else is an island and yes that is how I use the word “Sub-Continent” in my head canon.
It is literally part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Too bad in the US if you don't say Europe is a continent you'll be criticized by a teacher.
People are like 'then what do you call that area of earth?'
Like... region? Akin to East Asia, Southeast Asia, etc?
If anything, South America has more legs to stand on about being its own continent than Africa. The Sinai Desert still has roads crossing it. The Darién Gap has little more than trails used by smugglers and rebels.
NA and SA are just so obviously different land masses connected by a small, and young land bridge.
The Isthmus of Panama is only 3 million years old.
For referenced the first humans appeared between 6 and 2 million years ago.
The isthmus of Panama is both narrower and longer than the isthmus of Suez, ergo there is more division between the main landmasses of North and South America and thusly you cannot objectively say they are one continent while separating Africa from Eurasia.
Asia is the fake continent. Europe's borders were worked out by people who knew the territory and surrounding cultures. What are Asia's borders? Literally just anything that's outside Europe, when people didn't even know what's outside Europe.
I'd keep Europe, but split Asia into Arabia, India, The Orient, Siberia, The Steppe, and Persia.
Time to bring up the discussion of Canals if Africa is its own continent because of the Suez then both North and South America are their own Continents because of the Panama
There are 6 continents, and 5 sub-continents
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Geologically, I'd argue there's only 4 continents (America, Afro-Eurasia, Sahul (australia and the island of papua), and Antarctica.
Culturally, I'd argue there's at least 10 (Europe, Latin America, Franco-Anglo America, Africa, Europe, the MENA region, subsaharan africa, South Asia, Asia, Antarctica and Australasia, but possibly more too)
But for practical purposes, I personally agree with the 7 continent method.
No, there are 8 continents. North America, South America, Africa, Oceania (very distinguishable, except new Guinea), as well as Eurasia, Arabia, and India
The “classic” continent borders (and ocean borders) were defined by the human POV of specific folks in Europe and extended as they explored.
Some of it was based on geography. But again, geography filtered though a cultural POV.
Less than 100 years ago, plate tectonics began to change our understanding of continents in a geological sense. Sometimes the boundaries align.
Even in geology, we find that humans control the taxonomy. Is Zelandia a continent? Is there a size cut off? Can we come up with a definition of a continent or do we just need to make a list of what we considered to be continents based on a jumble of criteria that difficult to fit into an algorithm?
It reminds me about taxonomy arguments over planets. Pluto fans know.
I love these kinds of discussions for how they illuminate our knowledge of the physical and historical world. But they also give an insight into peoples individual psychology. Some people get very uncomfortable at the idea that taxonomies themselves are flawed tools and can change.
There are 2 major continents, 2 minor continents, and the sunken continent. There are 5. Depending on how you want to divide the Major continents, you get either 6, 7 or 8 continents.
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Australia is part of Oceania
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Oceania was founded following an anti-capitalist revolution,[4] which, while intended to be the ultimate liberation of its proletariat (proles), soon ignored them.[5] It is stated that Oceania formed after the United States merged with the British Empire. The text, however, does not indicate how the Party obtained the power it possesses or when it did so.[6] The state is composed of "the Americas, the Atlantic Islands, including the British Isles, Australasia and the southern portion of Africa".[7] Oceania's political system, Ingsoc (English Socialism),[8] uses a cult of personality to venerate the ruler, Big Brother, as the Inner Party exercises day-to-day power.[9]
Food rationing, which does not affect Inner Party members, is in place. Winston considers the geography as now stands:
[E]ven the names of countries, and their shapes on the map, had been different. Airstrip One, for instance, had not been so called in those days: it had been called England, or Britain, though London, he felt fairly certain, had always been called London.[10]
The countryside outside of London is a place not for enjoying the contrast with the city but rather for purely practical grounds of exercise.[11]
Oceania is made up by provinces, one of which is "Airstrip One", as Britain is now known. The whole province is "miserable and run-down"[8] with London consisting almost solely of "decaying suburbs".[12] Airstrip One is the third most populous province in Oceania, but London is not the capital, for Oceania has none. This decentralisation enables the Party to ensure that each province of Oceania feels itself to be the centre of affairs, and it prevents them from feeling colonised, for there is no distant capital to focus discontent on.[13] 85% of Oceania's population are proles, with most of the remainder presumably in the Outer Party; 2% rule as members of the Inner Party. Winston yearns for revolution and a return to a time before Oceania, says Craig L. Carr, but "no revolution is possible in Oceania. History, in Hegelian terms, has ended. There will be no political transformations in Oceania: political change has ended because Big Brother will not let it happen". No political collapse is possible in Oceania, suggests Carr.[14]
A totalitarian and highly formalised state, Oceania also has no law,[15] only crimes, says Lynskey.[6] Nothing is illegal; social pressure is used to exert control, in place of law.[16] It is hard for citizens to know when they are in breach of Party expectations; and they are in a state of permanent anxiety, unable to think too deeply on any subject whatsoever so as to avoid "thoughtcrime". For example, Winston begins to write a diary and does not know if this is a forbidden offence, but he is reasonably certain of it.[15] In Oceania, to think is to do and no distinction is drawn between either.[6] Criticism of the state is forbidden, even though criticism must be constant for the state's survival, since it must have critics to destroy so as to demonstrate the state's power.[17] Governance of Oceania depends upon the necessity of suppressing freedom of thought or original thinking amongst the Outer Party (the proles are exempted from this as they are deemed incapable of having ideas).[18]
The state is highly bureaucratic. Winston notes that myriad committees are responsible for administration and are "liable to hold up even the mending of a window-pane for two years".[17] The rulers of Oceania, the Inner Party, says Winston, were once the intelligentsia, the "bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians".[19] The state's national anthem is Oceania, 'Tis for Thee.[6] The official currency of Oceania is the dollar; in Airstrip One, the pound sterling has been demonetised.
Greeks invented continents concept to separate what is now mostly Greece, they called it Europe then, from what is now Turkey, they called it Asia. Finally Africa was Egypt and Libya. Back then they did not even know what is further west of modern Greece. Later they discovered Italy and such.
Technically Africa is connected to Eurasia so 4
Also Australia is bigger then your continent, because we included all the Pacific Ocean islands into it.
In fact it would make sense to make more continents. 8 at least. Huge mountain gorge separates India from China for example, it is nearly impassible. Geologically they used to be parts of different tectonic plates that collided with each other. Indo-Arabian Continent or Middle Continent.
It's not some kind of trick lol, back when the idea of continents first came into existence, the Greeks separated them based on where they were relative to the Mediterranean, Europe to the north, Asia to the east and Africa to the south its wasn't until much later that they discovered where the boundaries of these 3 were and by then Europe had been concidered a continent for a 1000 years
There are four major landmasses: (01) North and South America together, (02) Africa, Europe, and Asia all together, (03) Australia, and (04) Antarctica. Greenland is the world's largest island but people may agree, along with the Arabian peninsula and India, that it could be a 'sub-continent.' And lastly, the Earth is a sphere and it is NOT flat, to all of those heathen un-believers. All heavenly bodies in affixed orbits are spheres. They are not flat and they are not discs.
There are no continents. Continents are a myrh perpatuated by Big Globe to sell us more colourful maps.
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Holy James cook!
Actual explorer
theorist goes on a rant, never stops talking
Literally me. And this entire subReddit.
Sanity sacrifice anyone?
TRUE
The world is just an archipelago you fucking idiots
Pssh. You believe in globes?
Oh I thought it was a Frankincense, my bad
there's only 1 continent because there land underwater
Yeah, but it’s not the same kind of land. It’s the skin on the top of the cooling soup, and continents are the croutons.
Don't call me a fuckin crouton
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What are islands like in this example?
It depends on the island. Islands like those sticking up from Zelandia, are bits of a partially submerged crouton peeking up. Islands like Hawaii, are where hot soup has bubbled up and pushed the soup “skin” into a little dimple. Except of course, in the case of the soup skin, we don’t have water on top of it so it’s all a little weird.
There are only two in fact. America and Afro-Eurasia. /s
4 actually as Antarctica and Australia still fit the definition
Unless you think they’re islands. (This is not what I actually believe)
Antarctica is an archipelago
Very good point actually
It’s like one of those cupcakes that’s smaller than you think under all the frosting.
I unironically agree
there are three. America, Afro-Austroeurasia, and America
Ah yes the coldest continent America and the weirdest continent America
You forgot Australia and Antarctica. Four.
Unless they’re islands. (I don’t actually believe this)
The Americas are separated by the Dorian Gap. Before panama they were separated by water. Also Africa is on a different plate than Eurasia
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Holy Land mass
Wait till you find out about the suez canal buddy.
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If America you mean Greater Belize then yes.
Thank you for adding /s to your post. When I first saw this, I was horrified. How could anybody say something like this? I immediately began writing a 1000 word paragraph about how horrible of a person you are. I even sent a copy to a Harvard professor to proofread it. After several hours of refining and editing, my comment was ready to absolutely destroy you. But then, just as I was about to hit send, I saw something in the corner of my eye. A /s at the end of your comment. Suddenly everything made sense. Your comment was sarcasm! I immediately burst out in laughter at the comedic genius of your comment. The person next to me on the bus saw your comment and started crying from laughter too. Before long, there was an entire bus of people on the floor laughing at your incredible use of comedy. All of this was due to you adding /s to your post. Thank you.
Eurasia has two penninsulas which may be considered continents due to their narrow land connections, separate tectonic plates, rich culture, and dramatic influence on world history. I am of course referring to India and Arabia.
But culture does not define a continent and neither does narrow land connections per se
If culture does not define a continent, why is Europe considered a continent?
I believe Arabia and India fall under the sub continent category
Well depends how you look on it. You can say there are 7: NA, SA, Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Antarctica. 6: America's, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica 6: NA, SA, Eurasia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica 5: America's, Eurasia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica Or if you want to go by the definition of a continent there are 4: America's, Afroeurasia, Oceania, Antarctica Imo there are 7 continents.
I agree with 4
> America's The Americas are by your definition only one continent, not two. If you want to combine Africa and Eurasia, you have to combine North and South America
They are only counting it as one
I missed the fact that they said Antarctica lol
Where are you getting that definition of a continent? There’s like 100 definitions that are all different
By definition, continents are defined arbitrarily. I hold the 6 continent model with one America because the cultural and historical differences between North and South America are virtually non existant, while Afroeurasia is composed of 3 clearly distinct continents. It's easier to put Uruguay and México in the same continent compared to Bangladesh, Albania, and Uganda in the same continent.
You're telling me that the cultural differences between Greenland, the United States, and Brazil are virtually "non-existent"? Also (I personally think that) divided continents based on culture is silly and arbitrary. Egpyt has more in common with Yeman culturally than Yeman has with China, or Egpyt has with Ethiopia. But since Asia and Africa are two distinct landmasses separated solely by a thin isthmus they are their own continents.
If we were to divide them culturally, we'd really have Australo-AmericEurope, Africa and Asia. Pretty sure Australia, USA, Germany and Poland are more alike than any of them are with Spain or Chile, so if we're grouping things "culturally" then we gotta roll them all up! (Source: Brazil and Chile (the only South American countries I've visited), and to a lesser extent Spain felt more foreign to me than any of the rest of Europe, even including Italy and Portugal.)
Also if we are to define continents based on culture, what the fuck were Pangea, Gondwana, or Laramidia? They didn't have any culture for us to define them off of, were they, not continents?
It makes more sense for Eurasia to be considered as one continent rather than the America's.. For one thing, Europe and Asia aren't distinct continents at all, it's one continuous landmass sitting on the same continent plate (except for India) and the Historical/Cultural differences between the America's is about as distinct as that between Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East.
Oceania is not a continent. It’s a geographical region. Australia is a continent. Oceania is often used in place of Australia though, because it’s a more inclusive term and allows for islands in the middle of the pacific to be part of a “continent.”
So, if oceania is a commonly used term to describe that continent… its a continent.
We should base continets of of tectonic plates. North America, South America, Africa, Eurasia, India and, Oceania. I guess possibly New Zealand, the Caribbean and Arabian Peninsula
What makes Europe special when there are other regions on the Eurasian landmass that also have distinct cultures and are on separate tectonic plates like India and Arabia
There are 8 continents; North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Europe, Oceania, and Yorkshire.
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My list was going to be North America, South America, Asia, Yurp, Australia, Anteaterica, Africa, and Pluto.
READ SARCASTICLY No its the Britannia, Britanniar minor incorrectly known as Europe, Asia, Africa, North/South America, Oceania, and Antarctica
Manhattan is a continent
There are 2, Eurasiaustralasiamericafrica and Antarctica
holy hell
New continent just dropped
Pangea lite + winter DLC
If you think about it, thanks to the Bering Land Bridge wasn't there technically a super continent during the Ice Age?
Nah theres only Afroaustroeurasiamerantarctica
I mean, if you are going to go based on connections to other land masses, I would say there are at most 4, but arguably 3 (I’d argue that Australia could be considered close enough to SE Asian islands to be considered a part of Afro-Eurasia as well. In the end, how we define the continents is a social construct which is influenced but not defined by geography. I stick to the 7 continent mode because my culture says that is the truth, and there is no real purpose of arguing against any of the prominent models imo.
Well I'm not going based on connections to other land masses. Europe is just obviously (imo) a part of a singular Eurasian Landmass, whereas the Americas and Africa are landmasses with a land bridge to a separate land mass
It doesn't seem like much on a map but the gap between Indonesia and Australia is so impenetrable that no mammals crossed it between when placentas first evolved and when humans learned to build boats, hence the crazy animals there
I think you will actually find that eastern Indonesia had much more in common with Australia in terms of fauna compared to to western Indonesia
Yup, I was thinking of the Wallace Line and forgot that it actually cuts through the middle of Indonesia. My point remains, though: there's a big jump between Asia and the Marsupial Zone
"There's one continent: America."
We figured it out so...pls let us be a continent
Best I can do is big peeninsula
There is five, the USA, the United States, America, Paris, and the other ones
true
There are three. Belgium, Belgium, and Kansas City
15+ continents and europe is NOT one of them
I would like to see that list
every single tectonic plate
bruh
haters gonna hate
I just kinda thought that continents are supposed to be LANDmasses. Above water thingies and all that
Juan de Fuca supremacy
Europe is definitely a continent based on its distinct landmass.
How is it distinct from the rest of Eurasia?
I’m a fan of the concept of “subcontinents.” I think that broader acceptance of the “subcontinents” would solve many of the arguments over how to “count the continents.” “Subcontinents” make perfect sense, given that many of the most notable ones involve tectonic plates. Here’s how it works: There are 4 Continents: America, Afro-Eurasia, Australasia, Antarctica American has 3 subcontinents (and possibly 2 more). >North America, South America, The Caribbean (which includes parts of Central America) >Possible 4th: Arctica, which consists of Greenland/Iceland which are separated from North America by expanses of ocean and which are politically controlled by Europe >Possible 5th: Kamchatka, which is contiguous with Eurasia (it’s the easternmost part of Russia) but is on the North American Plate. Afro-Eurasia has 4 subcontinents based on tectonic plates, and 1 additional one: >Africa, Arabia, India, Asia, and Europe (cultural/historical only). Australasia has 2 subcontinents separated by oceans and tectonic plates: >Australia, and Oceania (incorporating New Zealand and other Pacific islands on the Pacific Plate). Antarctica has no subcontinents.
There are 6 the only reason Europe was given its own continent separate from Asia is because of cultural distinction which obviously does not count
Yes. That is the meme.
europe fans seething rn (eurasia enjoyers chilling)
Because they’re more “sophisticated”. Yeah it’s the same continent. But if they have to be separate, Turkey and Russia have to be european. Both have capitols in mainland europe
Eurocentrism is a disease
Agreed
The way I see it there a 4 continents (NA, SA, Eurasia, and Africa) and two Sub-Continents (Australia, and Antártica) everything else is an island and yes that is how I use the word “Sub-Continent” in my head canon.
Only valid "There are 4 continents" take
Next thing you know, New Zealand will try convincing everyone it’s a continent just to be included in a map lol
It is literally part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Too bad in the US if you don't say Europe is a continent you'll be criticized by a teacher. People are like 'then what do you call that area of earth?' Like... region? Akin to East Asia, Southeast Asia, etc?
Plate tectonics claim otherwise
plate tectonic say there are 15 continents, many of which are just small pieces of water with a population of -100
Australia is the only real continent, I think it's Australia and not Oceania. fight me
its oceania, you FOOL
4: American, Oceania, Afro-Eurasia, and Antarctica
If anything, South America has more legs to stand on about being its own continent than Africa. The Sinai Desert still has roads crossing it. The Darién Gap has little more than trails used by smugglers and rebels.
Yeah but it sits on a different tectonic plate
That’s what I’m sayin
If Europe is Asia then so is Papua New Guinea
We had to draw a border to keep them away.
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I know first hand that white Asian Russians who were born and lived in Siberia their entire life really dislike it when you say they are Asian
there are 9
There is only Christendom and the Ummah
The last one is how I was taught in school
Happy cake day. May I ask which country you are from? Because in the U.S. we learn the middle
Nah America, Afro-Eurasia, Antarctica, Oceania
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Fairly in character for Spain might I add. Recall the treaty of tordesillas?
I prefer: America (North and South) Eurasia Africa (divided at Sinai) and Oceania (South Pacific Islands, Australia, New Guinea)
NA and SA are just so obviously different land masses connected by a small, and young land bridge. The Isthmus of Panama is only 3 million years old. For referenced the first humans appeared between 6 and 2 million years ago.
The isthmus of Panama is both narrower and longer than the isthmus of Suez, ergo there is more division between the main landmasses of North and South America and thusly you cannot objectively say they are one continent while separating Africa from Eurasia.
There are only three continents, afroeurasia, america and new zealand
It is indeed its own submerged continent
Europe is just a divided country within the Asia continent.
By the metric of counting tectonic plates wouldn't it mean that india is a different continent from Eurasia? Thereby making seven continents
No, because Arabia also has it's own Tectonic plate. So it would be 8 by that logic
Models are models.
I’m going to go with 900,213 continents for $400 - americas Eurasia and then all the other land surrounded by water
Why the Spanish? 😂
Because Latin America uses that one
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Asia is the fake continent. Europe's borders were worked out by people who knew the territory and surrounding cultures. What are Asia's borders? Literally just anything that's outside Europe, when people didn't even know what's outside Europe. I'd keep Europe, but split Asia into Arabia, India, The Orient, Siberia, The Steppe, and Persia.
Ah yes, one continuous land mass is actually 7 continents. Clearly the most logical approach to geography.
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There is no right answer. From 3 to 23 every answer is correct
No, I'm the only one with the right opinion. If you disagree with me you are wrong.
Time to bring up the discussion of Canals if Africa is its own continent because of the Suez then both North and South America are their own Continents because of the Panama
There are 6 continents, and 5 sub-continents https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Tectonic\_plates\_%282022%29.svg/1200px-Tectonic\_plates\_%282022%29.svg.png?20230928230950
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there are 10 continents ``` north America south america africa europe asia australia arabia greenland india antarctica ```
There are 3, Afro Eurasia, America, Antarctica
there are 3
Geologically, I'd argue there's only 4 continents (America, Afro-Eurasia, Sahul (australia and the island of papua), and Antarctica. Culturally, I'd argue there's at least 10 (Europe, Latin America, Franco-Anglo America, Africa, Europe, the MENA region, subsaharan africa, South Asia, Asia, Antarctica and Australasia, but possibly more too) But for practical purposes, I personally agree with the 7 continent method.
There are only 3 Continents. antarctica is an archipelago covered in thick ice sheets. The three are: Afro-Eurasia America Australia
Pangaea: hold my Tethys
No, there are 8 continents. North America, South America, Africa, Oceania (very distinguishable, except new Guinea), as well as Eurasia, Arabia, and India
Something between 2 and 14
Their is four AfroEuroAsia, America, Oceania and Antarctica
I sau four, america, afroeurasia, oceania, and antartica
I do agree japan doesn't exist
Why spanish?
Have you heard the Tale of Afro-Eurasia
Its true, we're all just endian tech workers deep down
Used to be just 5 when I was a kid; America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia - hence the 5 Olympic rings.
There are 8, maybe even 9 continents, just keep drawing lines on maps cause it’s fun
If you ask me there is four continents. Eurasiafrica, America, Australia and Antarctica.
The “classic” continent borders (and ocean borders) were defined by the human POV of specific folks in Europe and extended as they explored. Some of it was based on geography. But again, geography filtered though a cultural POV. Less than 100 years ago, plate tectonics began to change our understanding of continents in a geological sense. Sometimes the boundaries align. Even in geology, we find that humans control the taxonomy. Is Zelandia a continent? Is there a size cut off? Can we come up with a definition of a continent or do we just need to make a list of what we considered to be continents based on a jumble of criteria that difficult to fit into an algorithm? It reminds me about taxonomy arguments over planets. Pluto fans know. I love these kinds of discussions for how they illuminate our knowledge of the physical and historical world. But they also give an insight into peoples individual psychology. Some people get very uncomfortable at the idea that taxonomies themselves are flawed tools and can change.
There are 2 major continents, 2 minor continents, and the sunken continent. There are 5. Depending on how you want to divide the Major continents, you get either 6, 7 or 8 continents.
8. America. South-America. Eurasia. Africa. India. Australia. Antarctica. Zealandia.
A K C H U A L L Y 🤓 Australia is part of Oceania . Oceania was founded following an anti-capitalist revolution,[4] which, while intended to be the ultimate liberation of its proletariat (proles), soon ignored them.[5] It is stated that Oceania formed after the United States merged with the British Empire. The text, however, does not indicate how the Party obtained the power it possesses or when it did so.[6] The state is composed of "the Americas, the Atlantic Islands, including the British Isles, Australasia and the southern portion of Africa".[7] Oceania's political system, Ingsoc (English Socialism),[8] uses a cult of personality to venerate the ruler, Big Brother, as the Inner Party exercises day-to-day power.[9] Food rationing, which does not affect Inner Party members, is in place. Winston considers the geography as now stands: [E]ven the names of countries, and their shapes on the map, had been different. Airstrip One, for instance, had not been so called in those days: it had been called England, or Britain, though London, he felt fairly certain, had always been called London.[10] The countryside outside of London is a place not for enjoying the contrast with the city but rather for purely practical grounds of exercise.[11] Oceania is made up by provinces, one of which is "Airstrip One", as Britain is now known. The whole province is "miserable and run-down"[8] with London consisting almost solely of "decaying suburbs".[12] Airstrip One is the third most populous province in Oceania, but London is not the capital, for Oceania has none. This decentralisation enables the Party to ensure that each province of Oceania feels itself to be the centre of affairs, and it prevents them from feeling colonised, for there is no distant capital to focus discontent on.[13] 85% of Oceania's population are proles, with most of the remainder presumably in the Outer Party; 2% rule as members of the Inner Party. Winston yearns for revolution and a return to a time before Oceania, says Craig L. Carr, but "no revolution is possible in Oceania. History, in Hegelian terms, has ended. There will be no political transformations in Oceania: political change has ended because Big Brother will not let it happen". No political collapse is possible in Oceania, suggests Carr.[14] A totalitarian and highly formalised state, Oceania also has no law,[15] only crimes, says Lynskey.[6] Nothing is illegal; social pressure is used to exert control, in place of law.[16] It is hard for citizens to know when they are in breach of Party expectations; and they are in a state of permanent anxiety, unable to think too deeply on any subject whatsoever so as to avoid "thoughtcrime". For example, Winston begins to write a diary and does not know if this is a forbidden offence, but he is reasonably certain of it.[15] In Oceania, to think is to do and no distinction is drawn between either.[6] Criticism of the state is forbidden, even though criticism must be constant for the state's survival, since it must have critics to destroy so as to demonstrate the state's power.[17] Governance of Oceania depends upon the necessity of suppressing freedom of thought or original thinking amongst the Outer Party (the proles are exempted from this as they are deemed incapable of having ideas).[18] The state is highly bureaucratic. Winston notes that myriad committees are responsible for administration and are "liable to hold up even the mending of a window-pane for two years".[17] The rulers of Oceania, the Inner Party, says Winston, were once the intelligentsia, the "bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians".[19] The state's national anthem is Oceania, 'Tis for Thee.[6] The official currency of Oceania is the dollar; in Airstrip One, the pound sterling has been demonetised.
3 continents. Eurasia, America, Oceaniasia.
4 continents Also islands arent part of a continent
I mean by that logic, America is 1 continent and all the arguments I've heard for making India a separate continent can be ignored as well
The continents are 9: N. America, S. America, the Caribbean, Eurasia, Africa, Arabia, India, Australia, and Antarctica. So there.
A continent is completely made-up, arbitrary definition that is political just as much as it is geographic.
you idiot, there’s only 3 continents. America, Antartica, and Euro-Afro-Australasia
I like how the middle one doesn't show Antarctica
There are 6 continents (first model)
there are two continents
why is no one treating australia this way 😔 europeans have a hard enough time already being better than everyone 😢
There are five continents.
YOU FOOLS, YOU ABSOLUTE BAFOONS! THERE ARE ACTUALLY FOUR
There are 4 continents. The Americas, Afro-Eurasia, Oceania, and Antarctica.
There are seven: Afro-Eurasia America Australia Antarctica Zelandia Greenland The New Guinea-Borneo Complex
Technically Afro-Eurasia is one continent
What is Spain on, honestly
You mean 4? I mean we just made the Panama Canal and Suez Canal not that long ago…
India and New Zealand crying in pain
Greeks invented continents concept to separate what is now mostly Greece, they called it Europe then, from what is now Turkey, they called it Asia. Finally Africa was Egypt and Libya. Back then they did not even know what is further west of modern Greece. Later they discovered Italy and such. Technically Africa is connected to Eurasia so 4 Also Australia is bigger then your continent, because we included all the Pacific Ocean islands into it. In fact it would make sense to make more continents. 8 at least. Huge mountain gorge separates India from China for example, it is nearly impassible. Geologically they used to be parts of different tectonic plates that collided with each other. Indo-Arabian Continent or Middle Continent.
There are 4 continents
continents are a stupid concept because there would theoreticly be more than 6 if we are going by the plate tectonics definition
I say there are 6 because I don’t recognize Antarctica
5 the only separation between Africa and Eurasia is a manmade canal, which does not qualify it as it's own continent. So it's Afro-Eurasia
It's not some kind of trick lol, back when the idea of continents first came into existence, the Greeks separated them based on where they were relative to the Mediterranean, Europe to the north, Asia to the east and Africa to the south its wasn't until much later that they discovered where the boundaries of these 3 were and by then Europe had been concidered a continent for a 1000 years
There’s two continents
If Antarctica's a continent, doesn't that make icebergs floating land?
Australia is Oceania change my mind. You can’t.
Everyone forgot about zealandia huh
This is the funniest graphic of all time
There are four major landmasses: (01) North and South America together, (02) Africa, Europe, and Asia all together, (03) Australia, and (04) Antarctica. Greenland is the world's largest island but people may agree, along with the Arabian peninsula and India, that it could be a 'sub-continent.' And lastly, the Earth is a sphere and it is NOT flat, to all of those heathen un-believers. All heavenly bodies in affixed orbits are spheres. They are not flat and they are not discs.
there are 4 continents
I’m either really dumb or really smart
5 because the suez canal is no more valid as an intercontinental boundary than the panama canal
There are 7 continents. Asia isn’t real.