• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    If we’re talking about tectonic plates, then:

    • Europe is part of Eurasia
    • Arabian peninsula, India, and far east Russia aren’t part of it, but we’d probably include them as subcontintents

    We’d end up with the following continents:

    • N. America (technically includes far east Russia) w/ Caribbean subcontinent
    • S. America
    • Eurasia w/ Indian and Arabian subcontintents
    • Africa w/ Somali subcontinent
    • Australia
    • Antarctica

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    Honestly, that would be a much more satisfactory definition than the current one, which seems to be “large landmass bigger than Greenland with logical separations when they’re too big.” What I really don’t understand is when people say Europe and Asia are separate, but N. America and S. America are combined, that’s logically inconsistent.