Italy is a part of Africa. At least, geologically.
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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.
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.
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
There isn't really a natural barrier between North and South America, though. Asia has the Urals.
North and South America have the Darién Mountains/Darién Gap
The Urals don't even stretch all the way across the continental boundary
Again: inconsistent.
Hmmm... You're right. It does feel a lot more arbitrary when you put it that way.
Shall we make California its own continent because of the Rockies?
They'd have to post a sign at the border warning that continents and mountains may cause cancer..
Okay, that was actually pretty funny
You know what? You actually do have a point.
Yes, I personally love 4 continents. Americas, Afro-Eurasia, Oceania, Antarctica
I don't accept the grouping of Africa and Eurasia as one
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.
Make cents
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.
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