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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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Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Behold, the 16 continents:
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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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- RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Bro actually believes in plate tectonics 💀
  
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- captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I’m happy to include Japan in North America. Sad to lose parts of California, but it feels fair, especially since we get to keep cuba.
  
  Also this is leaving me wondering about arctic earthquakes…
  
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  - blibla@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    you also got parts of russia
    
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  - mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Alaska_earthquake
    
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rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
India then should also count as a separate continent since it’s on a separate plate. It’s not clear cut.

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- blibla@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  also somalia and California
  
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- ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It is often called Indian subcontinent,
  
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Actually, Europe is a large island group that just surfaced some 100 million years ago.

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