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it’s just asia. europe’s just a subregion in the northwest of asia.

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Europe and India are Asian subcontinents. The only reason Europe is considered a full continent is white people made the definitions.

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they made the definitions before they’d invented white people though. IIRC this nomenclature comes from the ancient greeks. it’s very ancient european cope.

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the names and boundaries of continents are arbitrary and don’t matter. that said, the most common definition, really more of a vibe, of a continent is size. Europe is 3 times larger than India. It’s twice as large as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and Afghanistan combined.

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Bold move including Russia as part of Europe considering how the europeans have been acting (without western russia europe is 2x the size of India).

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I was under the impression that continent boundaries were defined by tectonic plates. Is that not correct?

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9 points

The European subcontinent.

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17 points

Obligatory Map Men: https://youtu.be/hrsxRJdwfM0

Afroeurasia is a continent. The only thing separating Africa from Asia is the Suez canal which is manmade.

Same goes for the Americas - the Panama canal is manmade.

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6 points

Pangaea is the only continent!

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west asian peninsula

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15 points

wet ass peninsula

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Why stop there? After we rule 85% of the world’s land area to belong to just one continent, why split the remaining 15% of Earth’s land in two? That seems awfully imbalanced to me. So I rule that we should just merge Oceania and Antarctica together into the great continent of “Antherest” — after all, the Maori were quite likely the first people to discover Antarctica; Antarctica itself is just an archipelago with the appearance of a contiguous landmass due to its ice (which might not last); and there aren’t really any people on Antarctica to object to being merged with Oceania.

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It’s a bit offensive to associate Asia, such a wonderful continent with those barbaric savages in its western peninsula.

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