Why is Europe a continent?
>>980956
Why is North America and South America a continent? Why is Africa and Asia 2 different continents? Who cares.
>>980956
Cultural and historical reasons. But mainly because we use the european definition of continents
Because it's convenient.
>>980956
Cultural and genetic boundaries. You're simply not going to find anything similar to it outside of Europe.
Because WE WUZ KANGS
But in all seriousness, the qualifications for being a continent are completely arbitrary and continenthood in itself is inherently meaningless.
>>980956
It's so the Eternal Anglo can artificially inflate their importance
If Europe was larger then the Eternal Anglo wouldn't seem as important to Europe as they are now
>>980964
The landbridges between South and North America, and Asia and Africa are tiny. Europe and Asia are part of a single landmass.
>>980956
Because it's relatively a pretty damn isolated place.
>vast steppes to the east
>Mediterranean to the south
>Sahara even beyond that
>nearest relevant neighbors live in what is mostly a desert
As much as the opposite is usually meme'd around here there's a pretty distinct region and culture which correlates with "Europe"
>>981014
Don't forget the Urals.
>>981014
The weird thing really is that the middle east is not considered a continent in the same way
>>981021
tbqh, You can divide Asia in like ~4 continents.
>>981026
europe, siberia, middle east and southeast asia?
>>981026
Yeah. Its only one things because greeks called everything east of the dardanelles "asia"
>>981032
...and India.
>>981021
Well imo India at least should be considered a continent, but the Middle East doesn't make sense geographically. I mean you can probably get away with saying that the fuckhuge peninsula on the west end of Eurasia is its own continent because of all the physical boundaries and how it's loosely connected to the rest, but the Middle East is a massive crossroads area. Arabia I guess could work but not enough people live there to be taken seriously.
>>980986
kys /int/shitter
>>981048
Hindu Kush or the Indus River.
>>981048
The Indus
>>981040
Well india is generally considered a sub-continent
>>980956
There are only 4 continents
>>981066
Continent =/= large contiguous landmass
>>981066
you cant call the americas a single continent when their connection has been severed by the panama canal.
>>981021
>>981026
>>981032
>>981040
>>981048
>>981053
>>981057
>>981063
Here's a perfect continent defining map desu. Based on cultural and genetic standings. But mostly cultural. East Asia really has no relation with the rest of Asia and North Africa is basically stranded compared to Africa.
>>980967
By this logic India should be a separate continent as well. It's a very similar situation
CONTINENTS ARE POINTLESS
REGIONS ARE WHAT MATTER
EUROPE IS A REGION DUE TO SHARED CULTURAL [RELIGIOUS, LINGUISTIC, LEGAL] TRADITION
JUST LIKE SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA IS A REGION AND SOUTHWEST ASIA, IT'S CALLED GEOGRAPHY
okay so,
>TL;DR continents are pointless please just use regions if you want to seriously discuss anything related to geography
>>981014
>India
>ocean to the south
>impassable swamps and marshes to the east
>impassable mountain range to the north and east
>desert, Hindu Kush, and Indus river to the west
>>980956
Being a peninsula is less than cool.
>>981169
It's more a criticism of the people saying Europe should be a special snowflake continent. If India isn't considered one, neither should Europe.
----LITERALLY OBJECTIVELY CORRECT BEST CONTINENT BREAKDOWN----
>Eurasia
>Africa
>Oceania
>Antarctica
>The Americas
>what are the Urals
>what are the Caucasus
>what is the Bosphorus
>what is the Gibraltar strait
>what is the Atlantic
Fuck off
>>981177
Wrong type of argument
>if Europe is its own independent continent, so should India
Fuck off
Because fuck you.
>>981188
If the Urals separates Europe from Asia, then western America and eastern America are two continents separated by the Rockies.
>>981185
>Oceania not at the top
>Americas that low
>Antartica not at the bottom
your opinions suck
>>980964
Europe has no plate its on the same plate as Asia meaning its a part of the Asian continent.
>>981197
It's not ranking them against each other, it's listing the best way to break continents down.
>>981195
Ah yes the great continents of Nazca, Scotia, Arabia, Filipino, Cocos, and Juan de Fuca.
>>981185
>the Americas
get fucked, in terms of plates N&S America are cleanly divided
>>981207
>Juan de Fuca plate
>Cocos plate
>Nazca plate
>Scotia plate
>Filipino plate
>Caribbean plate
>continental crust
m8...
>>981221
My bad then, so the continents are:
>North America
>South America
>Antarctica
>Africa
>Eurasia
>India
>Arabia
>Australia/Oceania
>>981041
t. Albert
>>981229
That actually sounds pretty good.
>>981277
Can you imagine the endless asspain from Europoors if Arabia and India were considered fully separate continents, but special snowflake Europe wasn't?
>>981284
they should get their own plate then, the lazy fucks
>>981199
No one had a working knowledge of plate tectonics prior to "Europe" becoming a thing.
>>981136
I thought continents should be described according to what tectonic plate they're on
>>980956
FUCK YOU! WHOEVER YOU ARE WE OWNED YOU AT ONE POINT!
That makes not sense. So Europe is now grouped in with a bunch of East Asians countries, but sandniggers get the their own continent? Fuck that shit. If India gets its own continent then so should Europe.
I just call Eurasia a continent tbph, famalamadingdong.
There are seven continents. Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, Australasia, Antartica and that huge piece of earth where all those dumb fat people live about South America.
>>981315
India is actually it's own tectonic plate though.
>>981195
I think continents shouldn't be allowed to occupy the same tectonic plate but not every tectonic plate is a continent. So Eurasia is one continent, but India remains part of Eurasia.
Actually you're wrong there are 14 continents.
Northern Africa (Muslim countries, Egypt, Morocco and the likr)
South America (Mexico and below)
Canada
North America (US and Greenland)
Europe
East Asia (You can tell it's an East Asian country if the populous all look Chinese)
Central Asia (India and everyone who looks like them)
Middle East (sandniggers
Israel
Antarctica
Australasia
Caribbean
Russia (All former soviet countries come under this)
Southern Africa (If more than 80% of the country look like they would throw shit at you and then climb up a tree)
Anything else is wrong and has probably been taught to you by some left wing communist.
>>980964
>what is the panama canal
I missed out Denmark also.
>>981195
>Eastern Russia is part of North America
Manifest Destiny now.
>>981394
>left wing communist
>>980956
>Why is Europe a continent?
Because we invented the continents.
>>981394
>israel gets its own continent
t. american
>>981467
This. Did the Greeks even know that there was a land connection between Europe and Asia when they named the two?
>>982473
They were aware of the north coast of the black sea so presumably
>>980956
>Why is Europe a continent?
because continents are a broadly defined concept
>>981087
thats just awful
>yfw you first find out that part of Kazakhstan is in Europe
>>980956
Because it exists on a continental shelf separate from Africa and Asia?
>>981087
Based on cultural
>Hindu-Sinic overlap that is Southeast Asia and other such areas of overlaps/crossroads.
and genetic
>This autism
Standings
Shoot yourself with a large caliber firearm.
>>980956
plates under the fucking ground
>>982769
Why isn't it Eurasia then?
>>982776
Because that would make India, eastern Siberia, Central America, the Caribbean, Saudi Arabia, and the fucking Phillipines their own continents as well.
>>980956
Europeans made the maps.
it's a social construct.
yes, i said it. prove me wrong, faggots.
>>982578
Naturally they are.
