Europe is not a continent. Change my mind.
Its all earth to me
“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.
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The name “Eurasia” exists.
No, ur a sia
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
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 :/
This plan would cost trillions, benefit no one and have devastating consequences for millions of people.
Oh so another ai company then
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.
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.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.
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…
India then should also count as a separate continent since it’s on a separate plate. It’s not clear cut.
It is often called Indian subcontinent,
Actually, Europe is a large island group that just surfaced some 100 million years ago.
America is also the same landmass. Just has some water inbetween.
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.
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.
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… :-)
hehe suddenly Italy and Spain are “the nordics”
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.
So, basically, East.
Europe is actually more a collection of large islands that have temporarily decided to exist as a unified land mass because Africa and Asia are squeezing it from both sides (geologically speaking)
Geologically speaking India and surroundings are also not Asia but a separate continent running into Asia creating the Himalayas
But europe is a continent.
Europe is just a part of the Eurasian continent.
Continent is an arbitrary division not consistently backed by any actual geological features.
Only because europe insists on this tomfoolery
So you think that Hokkaido is in North America and Somalia isn’t in Africa?
Haha, how funny
I’d appreciate if you could answer the question. Do you perhaps have another geologic feature to propose? If you want to use large landmasses, then islands don’t belong to any continents at all. If you don’t set a minimum size, then there are far too many continents to remember. So what is it?
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Yeah its called Eurasia. Some Russians are quite fans of this kind of thinking.
It’s Ourasia, comrade
As a Russian, I’m always bewildered why everyone else seems to refer to Europe and Asia as separate continents. Like, y’all blind or something? Look at the map!
And if you think it’s about geology or something, nuh-uh. It’s just a random convention coming from ancient perceptions, and it is heavily wrong. Eurasia is a single continent, and always has been.
Basically the idea was that the mountains caused Europe to develop mostly separately from Asia.
Tbh I always thought it was silly too. Continents have always been more vibes based than anything and unless we’re reverse engineering Victorian race science I don’t think there’s a compelling argument.
Some Russians? More like majority of them.
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As a European, yeah, this does make more sense.
you mean north west asian? yea
plus
far west Asia: Africa
south south east Asia: Austrailia
Don’t forget elevated east Asia. (The moon)
and hot Asia: the center of the earth
Why can’t Middle East be middle Asia And Central Asia as is?
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