Yeah, but Israel is part of Europe.
You mean Afroeurasiastralia
Sorry, I only recognize “Afroeurasia”.
Eurafricasia lists the three “classical” continents in order of decreasing size.
the distinction is somewhat arbitrary.
So is the separation of Europe and Asia into separate continents. There is no distinct separation, unlike the Suez as the connection between Africa and Asia, and Panama between North and South America.
I think you meant “increasing size” Europe<Africa<Asia. (Unless I’m looking at it backwards somehow.)
Australia is clearly on its own tectonic plate, so that gives a point in favor of it being a continent, but there’s also an Arabian and Indian plate, so the continents don’t completely neatly follow that.
The Arabian and Indian peninsulas are attached to a larger land mass, and Australia floats out there on it’s own, so maybe that counts for something. Is Greenland on the North American plate?
We have always been at war with Afroeurasia
Yes. The boundary between the North American plate and the Eurasian plate actually coincides with the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and runs right through the middle of Iceland.
Antarctica puts to rest any claims that Australia is the largest island yet still a continent.
That, at least is historical, coming from the ancients.
We all know that FIFA is a corrupt organisation, politically compromised to serve the interests of its skeezy bosses, eg bidding processes, ‘peace prize’, so I’d discount that completely.
According to Eurovision, Australia is part of Europe, and that should be more than good enough to settle this debate.
In some places, especially the Bosporus and the Black Sea, there is a clear and distinct geographical separation between Europe and Asia. In other places, especially within Russia, the line between the two continents is fuzzy geographically speaking. But geography is not everything; culturally, there is a clear distinction between Europe (the Occident) and Asia (the Orient and the Sinosphere), and this distinction has a long tradition. Also, it’s not just a case of Eurocentric arrogance; East Asians are just as unlikely to consider themselves part of the same continent with Western Europeans as the other way around.
3 countries?
Britain will get you some nit-picking too…
What gets me is folks (mostly European) who insist that Europe and Asia are of course different continents, but America is only one. No matter what your criteria, the Americas are clearly more separated than Europe and Asia.
But if you make the divide culturally, then the line needs to be much further east than it’s usually drawn, because Russia is culturally European.
I’m not sure that’s clear - Russia is culturally disparate. There’s a lot of cultural difference between a Muscovite and someone from Yakutsk.
That’s the problem with this entire topic - there’s few if any clear lines anywhere.
Someone from Yakutsk is probably not Russian. Russian has colonized a big chunk of Asia that’s still really not Russia.
For a certain meaning of the term “not Russian”. Their passport would say Russian, of course.
Technically, isn’t that called the Indo-Australian Plate”, as it includes both India and Australia?
This is outside my field but a quick google suggests there are major and minor plates. The Indo Australian plate seems to be divisible into Indian and Australian plates:
