• @[email protected]
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    21 month ago

    Which continent is America? I only know of Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.

    • Rowan Thorpe
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      21 month ago

      Tangential nitpick:

      s/Australia/Oceania/

      (shoutout to New Zealand, Hawai, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Samoa, etc)

      • @[email protected]
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        51 month ago

        Eurasia is on one continental plate, the Americas are on 2-3 (depending on how you want to count the Caribbean iirc)

        Definitions of continent vary and are often fairly subjective but I’ve always considered that a pretty objective standard.

      • Flying SquidM
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        01 month ago

        So anyone who calls themselves a European is also wrong. That’s what I see you saying here.

    • @FelixCress
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      -41 month ago

      That’s what they teach you in the USA, eh?

      Five continents We have been taught in school (way back in the '60s in Europe) that there are five continents, Africa, America, Asia, Australia, and Europe, for instance symbolized in the five rings of the Olympic Games.

      Six continents However, there is no standard definition for the number of continents. In Europe, many students are taught about six continents, in which North and South America is combined to form a single America. These six continents are Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Australia/Oceania, and Europe.