Let's talk about countries!

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Aielyn said:

Mnementh said:
Yes, if you put it together this way. But the isles itself are no part of Australia. So, an option for Oceania or Australia should be changed to Australia and Oceania then? I think keeping it separate is more interesting for us.

NZ and the other "isles" aren't a part of Australia, the country. But they are considered part of Australia, the continent. It's kind of like how Britain, Ireland and Iceland are considered part of Europe.

"Oceania" isn't a continent. "Australia and Oceania" isn't the name of the continent, either. So your real complaint is that asking people to list their continent is unfair to those who don't live on mainlands.

depends where you come from. in germany we call the continent "australien/ozeanien" which means exactly that. or it is called officially only australia but they write "australia/oceania" in every atlas. so wouldn't be too bad to call it like that in the poll but only australia would be correct.