TIL that there is no strict definition of a continent

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

The borders between Europe and Asia are absolutely arbitrary and the border between Asia and Africa is the Suez Canal

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.

Yes, I personally love 4 continents. Americas, Afro-Eurasia, Oceania, Antarctica

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.

Italy is a part of Africa. At least, geologically.

Eh, they're all just big and bigger islands, because every land mass is surrounded by water.

You're wife is right because they are the same landmass. We separate Europe and Africa from Asia due to racism.

Yeah. People in the US learn about 7 continents at school. In France, we learn about the 5 continents.

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.

The mapmen have a great video about it.

There also isn't a strict definition of when a pond becomes a lake

There is a useful way to do it: By looking at Tectonic Plates and their boundaries.

I try to explain this to people who don't believe south americans call themselves americans.

You were right too, because continents are only defined by convention. And by the convention I was taught, there’s 3 Americas: South, Central, and North.

there's also like 5 definitions of "species". Sometimes what seem like simple concepts are hard to pin down

And New Zealand is its own continent! I like that definition

Oceania is the best continent

North and South America I can see either way, but splitting Europe and Asia is insane.

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.

Nobody tell her about trees, then.

I always use the one definition that's gonna annoy the most amount of people.

It's always Americas because no one else gives a flying fuck

">afroeurasia"

Yeah. They'd like that wouldn't they?Eat shit globalist scum.

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.