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[–] 3 points 15 hours ago

There are seven continents.

Eurasia, Africa, America, Antarctica, Australia, Greenland and Zealandia.

Change my mind.

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    [–] 1 point 16 hours ago

    We're all in Greater Gobekli Tepe, technically. The Gobekli Tepe Metropolitan Area/suburbs.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Europe is not a continent. Change my mind.

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  • [–] 77 points 2 days ago (12 children)

    The best European invention was the Suez canal, preventing people from realising that Africa is also the same landmass.

    I propose we dig a similar canal from the north of Russia to the Black sea to unambiguously become a continent. Some would argue Caspian sea is more appropriate, but come on: Connecting the Black sea to the White sea? That's poetic.

    This plan would cost trillions, benefit no one and have devastating consequences for millions of people. I will not be answering questions.

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    Europe and Asia are the same continental mass but Africa is not. Africa is moving independent to the Eurasian continent and is even slowly producing a new continent at the horn of Africa. So yes, it's true that Europe and Asia are the same continent but Africa is not. It is also slowly moving into Europe. That's why the Alps exist.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Behold, the 16 continents:

    From Wikipedia.
    You are of course free to define continent how you want, but I am free to prefer Afroeurasia over a North America that includes parts of Siberia and half of Japan.

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    [–] 10 points 1 day ago

    "Europe? More like Europartofmenow!"

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    The name "Eurasia" exists.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    The continent of Africa is connected, count it in.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 days ago

    I fail to see why it should be asia centric.

    Surely it makes more sense to call it Eastern Europe, Far Eastern Europe, Far Eastern Europe And A Bit North... :-)

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    Asia was named such by the Europeans, meaning something like 'the land of the sunrise' and thus referencing its Eastern position relative to Europe.

    Etymonline cites a possible Akkadian origin for 'europe' meaning 'to go down, set', which would mirror the origin for the word 'asia'.

    In other words, Europe and Asia might literally mean 'the western and eastern bit,' making perfect sense.

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    [–] 16 points 2 days ago

    hehe suddenly Italy and Spain are "the nordics"

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  • [–] 33 points 2 days ago (14 children)

    Europe is actually more a collection of large islands that have temporarily decided to exist as a unified land mass because Africa and Asia are squeezing it from both sides (geologically speaking)

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    [–] 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    There would be a lot of wars over who was northwest and who was west

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    This makes me think of that old Doctor Who episode where they're in Pompeii, and anytime the Doctor or companion uses a Latin phrase, the locals get agitated and say things like "Hey! ME. NO. SPEAKIE. THE. CELTIC!"

    Cute little quirk with the handwavey translation thing.

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    [–] 19 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    Yeah its called Eurasia. Some Russians are quite fans of this kind of thinking.

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    [–] 20 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    As a European, yeah, this does make more sense.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    plus

    far west Asia: Africa

    south south east Asia: Austrailia

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  • [–] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    This is unironically true. You can call it Eurasia if you're feeling charitable to the pale demons.

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