TIL there is no agreement on how many continents there are.

https://lemmy.ca/post/62085022

TIL there is no agreement on how many continents there are. - Lemmy.ca

Lemmy

I was taught in the second grade that there are seven continents and I still have them memorized and I can still see our adorable teacher teaching & chanting them with us rhythmically

North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica

And there are five oceans:

Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Antarctic

Well, it’s in Asia and Europe. Big country. If Siberia alone was a country, it would still be the biggest country in the world.

A country cannot be in/on two different continents. Pick one. It’s Asia. I’m telling you. Russia is in Asia.

Europe begins where the countries start getting comparatively tiny & all clustered together on the west side of that ginormous land mass.

A country cannot be in/on two different continents.

Says who?

Could your home ever possibly be in two different zip codes?

When you’re standing on the ground, is it possible for you to physically be anywhere else at the same time?

Probably not, but there are homes in two different countries.
Yeah, I’ve stood in two different countries at the same time before. Haven’t you?

Seriously? I thought you would at least be able to come up with a funny explanation to support your nonsensical statement.

So if France conquered all of Africa? Africa wouldn’t be a continent anymore? Would we just continuously move the continental border?

If the US conquered Australia, Australia would become part of North America?

How about you slow down and think about this one for a few minutes.

Moscow is in Europe, as is Petersburg, as are something like 80% of the population. So if you want to be like that and say a country has to be entirely in one continent then Russia is in Europe.
Heck Australia is it’s own continent and also claims part of Antarctica as territory.