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The world map is changing: The UN has backed replacing the 500-year-old Mercator projection with the accurate Equal Earth projection (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

We should divide the continents in:

Continents: the actual land, so we have the Americas (i'd count them as one as they are almost one), AfroEuroAsia

Sub continents: their definition is cultural so we have north and south america, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania

Don't take anything too seriously, i thought about this on two feets around 2 years ago and forgot about that until now

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    I know at the end of the day it doesn't really matter, but it always rubbed me the wrong way when Europeans claim that The Americas are one continent because it's one connected landmass, but somehow Europe is it's own continent. North/South America at least came from different super continents and only recently collided. Europe (minus the Balkans) and Asia (minus Arabian and Indian peninsulas) have been together since at least Pangaea.

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