PotD: How many continents are there?

[Kalahari Inkantation]

america is one thing

wrong

eurasia is one thing
africa gets to be its own thing because of toto
australia
antarctica

same

[Mando Pandango]

If Africa gets to be its own thing, I see no reason why you'd combine the Americas

[C.Mongler]

when toto writes a hit song about the continent of south america then we can talk


until then america is conjoined via panama and no man made canal can convince me otherwise.

[Thyme]

continents are a spook

it's all connected underwater

[Nyerp]

round earth is a spook

[The artist formally known]

WHY CANT I PICK 1

Pangaea is the only continent that matters

pangaea for life

[Mando Pandango]

when toto writes a hit song about the continent of south america then we can talk


until then america is conjoined via panama and no man made canal can convince me otherwise.

Africa is also conjoined via the Suez peninsula, and a man made canal shouldn't change that either.

[Samus Aran]

continents that are barely conjoined are separate enough in my book. so africa is its own thing, and the americas are their own things.

but eurasia makes a lot of sense, i've never really understood the need to separate europe from western asia.

so my preferred model would definitely be that particular six-continent one.

on a semi-related note, can we someday come up with a better name than "south america" and "north america?" i understand that "america" was initially intended to just be a name for the western hemisphere in general, the new lands discovered by european explorers...but "america" is far too often just shorthand for our country these days, so the whole naming system seems misleading. either we rename the continents or rename our country.

[C.Mongler]

when toto writes a hit song about the continent of south america then we can talk


until then america is conjoined via panama and no man made canal can convince me otherwise.

Africa is also conjoined via the Suez peninsula, and a man made canal shouldn't change that either.

a man made hit #1 single does however

[Kalahari Inkantation]

show me on the map where """europe""" and """asia""" split



either above or below ground

go on now

[Kalahari Inkantation]

but eurasia makes a lot of sense, i've never really understood the need to separate europe from western asia.

so my preferred model would definitely be that particular six-continent one.

on a semi-related note, can we someday come up with a better name than "south america" and "north america?" i understand that "america" was initially intended to just be a name for the western hemisphere in general, the new lands discovered by european explorers...but "america" is far too often just shorthand for our country these days, so the whole naming system seems misleading. either we rename the continents or rename our country.

, how lazy of cartographers to name two enormous and very clearly distinct landmasses "america"

anyway i call dibs on the name america for america

the rest of north and south america will have to find some other title

[Mando Pandango]

show me on the map where """europe""" and """asia""" split



either above or below ground

go on now

The Ural and Caucasus mountains are generally used to define the border and you know this

[don't let's]

But then how many sub continents are there?

[don't let's]

show me on the map where """europe""" and """asia""" split



either above or below ground

go on now

[Kalahari Inkantation]

The Ural and Caucasus mountains are generally used to define the border and you know this

the what now

i don't see either of those geographic features on either of those maps

what i do see, however, are giant isthmuses like suez and panama, and island continents like australia and antarctica