TIL that there is no strict definition of a continent
Started an argument with my much smarter wife because she said North and South America are not two separate continents. She was right, because continents are only defined by convention.
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Regardless of which definition you go with, someone saying North and South America are one continent but Europe and Asia are two separate continents are at the very least being inconsistent
There isn't really a natural barrier between North and South America, though. Asia has the Urals.
North and South America have the Darién Mountains/Darién Gap
The Urals don't even stretch all the way across the continental boundary
Again: inconsistent.
Hmmm... You're right. It does feel a lot more arbitrary when you put it that way.
Shall we make California its own continent because of the Rockies?
You know what? You actually do have a point.
They'd have to post a sign at the border warning that continents and mountains may cause cancer..
Okay, that was actually pretty funny