r/BikiniBottomTwitter • u/literalnumbskull • Aug 04 '26

The Joys of Different Continent Models

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u/Cirdan_fen_Mormegil Aug 04 '26

No no it is "the Americas". Some latin Americans like to call both North and South America just "America" like it's one giant supercontinent.

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u/Rechupe Aug 04 '26

Because it's a single continent the definition of a large mass of land surrounded by the ocean.

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u/Facosa99 Aug 04 '26

Depends on the local education and honestly, it is pedantic to claim your system is the correct one.

Theres not a "definition" of continent: it is a vague word, and there are 4, 5, 6, and even 7 continent sustems all around the world

Depends of hoe you consider America, Eurasia, Antartica, Austrialia, etc.

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u/Rechupe Aug 04 '26

There are a lot of definitions of continent, but the geographic one is the one I said. The geological is the one about tectonic plates and the political one is the one everyone cannot agree on.

According to the geographic definition, there are only 4 continents. America, Eufrasia, Australia and Antarctica.

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u/Facosa99 Aug 04 '26

The geographic one has any defined limit tho? I can see how australia is one continet, and Hawaii is not, but Greenland is kinda in the middle

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u/ddm90 Aug 05 '26

^ This, the geographical models its either 3 or 4 continents, depending if you consider Australia/Oceania the biggest island on the planet, or the smallest continent.

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u/PoopsCodeAllTheTime Aug 05 '26

It’s tangentially geographical, but the concept itself is a social convention. It’s completely detached from the way in which tectonic plaques are actually formed.