What continent do you live on?

[Godwynn]

North America

 

[Mise]

Australia is a country, not a continent.

 

[Bill3000]

Australia is a country, not a continent.

Australia-New Guinea, excuse me.

 

[Cutlass]

Australia is a country, not a continent.

Why can't it be both?

 

[Camikaze]

FWIW, here in Australia I was taught that the continent is Australia and comprises solely the country of Australia, and the region is Oceania.

 

[emzie]

Australia is a country, not a continent.

Not according to my elementary school! Geography is a dying subject. My teachers would have been happy to get across the number of continents.

There's also no option in the poll for kiwis. Even if you changed Australia to the proper Australia-New Guinea, New Zealand is on its own continent.

 

[Babbler]

I live in North America, not one of those weird ghetto continents.

 

[Bill3000]

If we're going based on continental plates then Europe isn't a continent either. Replace Asia with Eurasia and add India.

 

[Cutlass]

If we're going based on continental plates then Europe isn't a continent either. Replace Asia with Eurasia and add India.

I saw one article and map once that showed that if large countries were based on continental plates, the borders would be entirely screwed up.

 

[emzie]

If we're going based on continental plates then Europe isn't a continent either. Replace Asia with Eurasia and add India.

Indeed, if Europe is arbitrarily given status as a continent, there is absolutely no reason India, with a much better geological claim, shouldn't be considered as such.

 

[Mise]

Here, we are taught that Europe is a continent off the coast of Kent. I don't know how that fits in to this whole "geology" thing, but it makes sense to me.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Norteamérica or América del Norte, whichever. ...Or if we want to use English and be old-fashioned, North America.

Now you all know why I advocate for the ascension of the United States of North America, and later, the United Federation of the Americas!

 

[Quackers]

Here, we are taught that Europe is a continent off the coast of Kent. I don't know how that fits in to this whole "geology" thing, but it makes sense to me.

What a shame another one which fell though the cracks of our education system.

 

[Shekwan]

Not really, since the continent is basically Australia, with a few scattered islands off the coast.

Oh yeah, we'll just ignore the second biggest island in the world then.

 

[say1988]

Thats ridiculous. That would be like calling South America Brazil. You can't go around naming continents after the biggest country in them, or any country in them. Too much confusion.

I believe it is the other way around. The term Australia was used before the country came into being. Really it is naming it after the largest landmass.

If we're going based on continental plates then Europe isn't a continent either. Replace Asia with Eurasia and add India.

Then Arabia/Levant/Iraq [approximately] is another to be added, and the Caribbean and central America, etc...

A map, though it may be a bit simplified.

The stardard model I have encountered is the one int eh poll with Australia/Oceania (the former more common, the latter appears to be considered more correct) used interchangeably (and since most people couldn't care less about any country there other than Australia and new Zealand, people don't care).

 

[Lillefix]

Indeed, if Europe is arbitrarily given status as a continent, there is absolutely no reason India, with a much better geological claim, shouldn't be considered as such.

India has to conquer the world at least once, before that can be considered.

 

[emzie]

Continents and plates are not the same thing.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Oh yeah, we'll just ignore the second biggest island in the world then.

It really isn't that big compared to Australia.

 

[Mise]

What a shame another one which fell though the cracks of our education system.

There are no cracks in the Great British education system. Europe isn't even part of the UK so why bother learning or caring about it? Seems pointless to me since we pwned them in 2 world wars, 1 world cup YEAH!!!!!!!!

 

[MagisterCultuum]

North America. (I've never even left the United States, been west of the Mississippi, been further north than a suburb of Philadelphia, or as far south as Florida. I've been on some islands, but mostly those that sometimes connect with the mainland during low tide so I guess that can still count as part of North America.)