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How many Americas are there?

0 0 0%
 
1 17 12.98%
 
2 65 49.62%
 
3 15 11.45%
 
3.14159 26535 89793 23846... 15 11.45%
 
4 5 3.82%
 
69 3 2.29%
 
88 3 2.29%
 
420 5 3.82%
 
I don't know. 3 2.29%
 
Total:131

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There seems to be some disagreement on what the continents are, so I made this thread to see which continents there are according to you.

On school, I always learned that there are 7 continents:
- Europe (including Istanbul, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and a part of Russia)
- Asia
- Africa
- Oceania
- North-America (including everything up to Panama, also most of the isles like Cuba and Puerto Rico)
- South-America (including the small isles at the east of Puerto Rico)
- Antartica

I also learned that the geographical continents are America, Eurasia, Africa, Australia and Antartica.


What do you think?



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Flilix said:

On school, I always learned that there are 7 continents:
- Europe (including Istanbul, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and a part of Russia)
- Asia
- Africa
- Oceania
- North-America (including everything up to Panama, also most of the isles like Cuba and Puerto Rico)
- South-America (including the small isles at the east of Puerto Rico)
- Antartica

What do you think?

This one.

But it's such an arbitrarily defined term that it doesn't matter. It's not based (solely) on tectonic plates, or we'd have a tonne of other continents, it's not based on continous landmasses, or Europe and Asia would be considered as a single continent. We've just decided which landmasses we refer to as continents and which we don't.



It is exactly as you say. "The Americas" is like Eurasia; a supercontinent.



Ka-pi96 said:
S.Peelman said:
It is exactly as you say. "The Americas" is like Eurasia; a supercontinent.

Isn't the supercontinent Eurafrasia?

Lol. Yeah guess so.



There are two continents. The Americas, and Afro-Eurasia.



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7 continents is right, but there are also the 5 olympic rings that stands for the big 5 continents ( america as one and without antartica)



Ka-pi96 said:
StarDoor said:
There are two continents. The Americas, and Afro-Eurasia.

Wrong!

Even if you're only counting contiguous landmasses as single continents you still have to include Australia and Antarctica

No. Those are too small to be continents. They're just big islands.



Never heard of Oceania, I learned Australia instead.



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mZuzek said:
6, because Antartica doesn't exist.

Yeah, it's actually a giant ice wall that prevents us from falling off the edge of the world.



It's always been North/Central/South America for me.
Can't claim to be a geography expert, but the distinction makes perfect intuitive sense to me.