There are seven continents.
Eurasia, Africa, America, Antarctica, Australia, Greenland and Zealandia.
Change my mind.
Europe is not a continent. Change my mind.
Continents are made up anyway. Some call it Eurasia.
Yep, no notes
Its all earth to me
always has been
I’m confident that I could make a damn convincing argument that it wasn’t earth before 4.6 billion years ago.
“Europe? More like Europartofmenow!”
The continent of Africa is connected, count it in.
Asia is Northeast Africa, extended edition.
Europe is North Africa, extended edition.
It also leads me to count 4 continents: Africa (or Afrasia/Afro-Eurasia), America, Australia, Antarctica.
Asia 2
The name “Eurasia” exists.
No, ur a sia
There would be a lot of wars over who was northwest and who was west
It’s all
GreekRoman to me.This makes me think of that old Doctor Who episode where they’re in Pompeii, and anytime the Doctor or companion uses a Latin phrase, the locals get agitated and say things like “Hey! ME. NO. SPEAKIE. THE. CELTIC!”
Cute little quirk with the handwavey translation thing.
Can be fixed w “northwest” and “southwest”
my thought is that tere are places in the middle that noone want’s to lay claim to. :)
This made me think of the Bir Tawil dispute on the Egyptian-Sudanese border.
Why can’t Middle East be middle Asia And Central Asia as is?
I fail to see why it should be asia centric.
Surely it makes more sense to call it Eastern Europe, Far Eastern Europe, Far Eastern Europe And A Bit North… :-)
Europe is politically a continent bounded by Urals? What is southern boundary? Is a mountain range a legitimate geological continental boundary?
The Southern boundary is the Mediterranean.
Is Turkey half in Europe, half Asia?
hehe suddenly Italy and Spain are “the nordics”
India does call the Middle East as West Asia.
Sure, but aren’t continents defined by tectonic plates and not landmass?
No but I think it’d be really funny if we started doing that
Not really, and even if it did it wouldn’t separate europe from asia, but it would put Japan and part of Siberia in North America, cut Africa in two, cut India and Arabia out of Asia, and trim off bits of both Americas in California, Central America, and Venezuela.
yes the chilean continent
Which will complicate things because there will be dozens of more continents.
The best European invention was the Suez canal, preventing people from realising that Africa is also the same landmass.
I propose we dig a similar canal from the north of Russia to the Black sea to unambiguously become a continent. Some would argue Caspian sea is more appropriate, but come on: Connecting the Black sea to the White sea? That’s poetic.
This plan would cost trillions, benefit no one and have devastating consequences for millions of people. I will not be answering questions.
In the same vein, does the Kiel canal mean the Denmark is an archipelago instead of a peninsula + islands?
And the Panama canal is when America became two continents? :D
America is also the same landmass. Just has some water inbetween.
This plan would cost trillions, benefit no one and have devastating consequences for millions of people.
Oh so another ai company then
I support this plan because it would also separate russia from Europe and give us in Ukraine as well as Baltics a great defensible threshold.
In 1999, the warty comb jelly colonized the Caspian Sea via the UDWS. The establishment of this population led to a 60% reduction in the number of sprat, which in turn led to a reduction in the population of sturgeon and seals.
Beautiful ethereal alien ate all the babies :/
Europe and Asia are the same continental mass but Africa is not. Africa is moving independent to the Eurasian continent and is even slowly producing a new continent at the horn of Africa. So yes, it’s true that Europe and Asia are the same continent but Africa is not. It is also slowly moving into Europe. That’s why the Alps exist.
Actually, Europe is a large island group that just surfaced some 100 million years ago.
Behold, the 16 continents:
From Wikipedia.
You are of course free to define continent how you want, but I am free to prefer Afroeurasia over a North America that includes parts of Siberia and half of Japan.I’m happy to include Japan in North America. Sad to lose parts of California, but it feels fair, especially since we get to keep cuba.
Also this is leaving me wondering about arctic earthquakes…
you also got parts of russia
Bro actually believes in plate tectonics 💀
It’s still so wild to me that something so fundamental and basic was figured out only in the past 60-80 years.
India then should also count as a separate continent since it’s on a separate plate. It’s not clear cut.
also somalia and California
It is often called Indian subcontinent,
Asia was named such by the Europeans, meaning something like ‘the land of the sunrise’ and thus referencing its Eastern position relative to Europe.
Etymonline cites a possible Akkadian origin for ‘europe’ meaning ‘to go down, set’, which would mirror the origin for the word ‘asia’.
In other words, Europe and Asia might literally mean ‘the western and eastern bit,’ making perfect sense.
Whereas “East” just means “direction of the egg”
Thus reaulting in Eurasia being the setting and rising land, which is fitting because the sun certainly does do both things there from what I hear (I’ve only been to North America according to the tectonicists in this thread)
c. 1300, from Latin Asia, from Greek Asia, speculated to be from Akkadian asu “to go out, to rise,” in reference to the sun, thus “the land of the sunrise.” Used by the early Greeks of what later was known as Asia Minor; by Pliny of the whole continent.
whereas europe means … wide face xd
Often explained as “broad face,” from eurys “wide” (see eury-) + ops “face,” literally “eye” (from PIE root *okw- “to see”). But also traditionally linked with Europa, Phoenician princess in Greek mythology. Klein (citing Heinrich Lewy) suggests a possible Semitic origin in Akkad. erebu “to go down, set” (in reference to the sun) which would parallel occident. Another suggestion along those lines is Phoenician 'ereb “evening,” hence “west.”
So, basically, East.
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