Yes, and ioi lives in the UK so he can continue to be accurate and you people can all carry on being wrong.

Geographically you have to start talking about either borders with the sea, or continental crust. Using the Former then yes you are correct NZ is a seperate "continent" in the same way that every island is therefore a seperate continent.
If you use the difference between continental and Oceanic Crust, then there are only really 2 continents (those being Antarctica and everything else, I think New Zealand may not even be counted in this, and therefore would become 2 of the largest islands in the world along with Iceland)

There is no set definition geographically for the continents, which is why people use the political version with 7 continents.

Actually no not every island is seperate under my definition, the only non-major continents that I can think of are Zealandia and Madagascar. You can see how seperate they are in this picture here (thank you wikipedia);

As you can see Zealandia and Madagascar are continental entities in their own right as far as a strictly geographic sense goes while most other islands are, while seperate from other landmasses, still part of a continent even if some of it is submerged. Iceland and Hawaii are volcanic and not really included.

No, for the love of all things loved, no.   A North American Union would be the lethal injection in the arm of the United States.

 Interesting. I was googling for something like this after I posted but most images were rather vague.

This does show the second thing I mentioned though, because The Americas, Afro-Eurasia and Australia are all joined in that image.... which is what I said (Antarctica and everything else)


I wouldn't mind knowing what the grey areas ae in that image? they are not in the key. And as they are on or near the other forms I would presume they are part of the Continental crust, and therefore join New Zealand to Australia. (And possibly, though not shown, connect South America and New Zealand to Antarctica)

I made a registration just to say this:

You damn bunch of ignorants!

How that “America” just has 2 parts!?

It has 3 parts!

Well…I do not expect you to know, after all you people do not even care about the rest of the world, as long as you can eat Mc Donald’s until l explosion or watch American Idol´s, Why the hell care about the rest?   

Well...you people went to "War" against Iraq and Afghanistan and I bet you people neither know where are those places are, so...I suppose I am asking too much...

You do realize Rath is from New Zealend and TW is from UK right?

Regardless central America isn't a continent, it's part of North America.

It's not it's continent in any accepted geographical model.  If your school is teaching you differently... you're just in a bad school.

America = 2 continents.
North America
South America

America = 3 geopolitical regions.
North America
Middle America (also referred to as Central of Latin America)
South America

Good job with the first post.  You generalized and displayed as much ignorance as you suggest Americans portray.   This warrants a witty Fail image.

In American English, America just means the United States. The Americas refers to all of both continents.

I know some people are offended by the term meaning just the US, but its got a long history of use here. We were defining ourselves as American as opposed to English or European during the revolution. That evolved into us calling ourselves Americans and our country America for short. That may not be politically correct, but I don't think we should have to change it after hundreds of years of use.

Firstly most of us aren't American. Secondly the only way you could possibly divide America into three parts is South America, North America and the Carribean. Central America is definitely not a seperate continent under any definition.