• wwaxen@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      A broken clock…

      I mean, look at the globe with satellite view and tell me where one ends and the other begins.

      • InvertedParallax
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        1 year ago

        I mean, the Ural mountains are a pretty solid demarcation line, I agree it’s not as tidy as an ocean but still.

        India is a separate subcontinent as well, but we don’t question that.

        • rookeh@geddit.social
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          1 year ago

          India is on a separate tectonic plate to the rest of Europe / Asia.

          IMO, if you’re looking at continents purely from a geographic/geologic frame of mind, dividing them up based on what plate they are on makes the most sense. But, that would not take into account cultural/political/legal boundaries, all of which are probably more important day-to-day.

        • wwaxen@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Look at a satellite view and tell me Urals separate continents but not the Himalayas, the Rockies or the Atlas.

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            1 year ago

            You could argue the Atlas and Rockies are too close to the edge, so the land they separate is too small to be a continent