re: 6 or 7 Continents?

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Serious question, have the maps changed in the past few decades? I've been out of school for a while and was never a big geography person but they appear much more defined than when I was in school

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Most maps make the northern hemisphere much bigger than it is. Making Greenland appear as big as Africa. With good satellite images maps most likely are much better.

Perhaps it will just fall into the ocean so we can collect the insurance money and be done with it.


Alternative comment: It's not the size of your mountains, but how you use them ...










... to divide your continents.

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The are seven continents.....and I've walked on every one of them. No. No you haven't.

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As someone who has also walked on all seven continents why would you say that, even Antarctica is fairly simple to get to if you have the time, the cost is not unreasonable.

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someone from Land Mass has read

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and people call me a troll....

Europe is roughly separated from most of Asia by the Urals and Caucasus mountains. Culturally you could say roughly coincides with that demarcation as well.

But of course, there are no isthmuses or bodies of water to reinforce that.

I think India should be its own continent. As of now it's considered a subcontinent.

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Culturally you could say roughly coincides with that demarcation as well.

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It goes beyond culture. Europeans carry genes of Neanderthals. East Asians do not.

Might explain the math and engineering differences we see today.

Incontinent?

That's a pisser.

North America and South America have separate tectonic plates, and they are separated by a canal. The same can be said about Africa and the Middle East. Europe and Asia are separated by the Ural Mountain range, but share the same tectonic plate outside of India. India is more of a separate continent than is Europe, geologically speaking. It has its own tectonic plate and a much larger mountain range, the Himalayans, separating it from the rest of the Eurasian continent.

Pretty sure the other half of the world considers North and South America one continent.