Where Does Europe End and Asia Begin?

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Europe and Asia are considered separate continents, and yet they're connected by land, so where do we mark the boundary between the two continents? And how did we decide where to put them at all? In fact why are they even separate at all? What is even going on?! Someone help, reality is a lie!
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[@KhAnubis]

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[@cartier2312]

Actaully we have Africa, Asia, North America, South America, Antarctica, India, Oceania, Europe, and The Middle East

[@tobirates916]

Signed up!

[@HolyLionProphet]

Because it was bounded by the southern and eastern borders of the Roman Empire

[@RedRocketthefirst]

Belgium doesn't exist

[@greyhood2564]

@@cartier2312 You broke Asia up into 3, where did you get this info from?

[@runiccurse990]

simple, Europe doesn't end, it encompasses the whole world. With the exception of Ethiopia, parts of china, Siam, Liberia ect

[@hariscountrys6911]

Saudi. Saudi was never colonized.

[@nomanor7987]

You mean Europe has practiced ‘race replacement’ upon the world?

[@runiccurse990]

@@hariscountrys6911 yes Saudi and Bhutan and Nepal and Mongolia

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

Damn, that is a hot take 😂😂

[@dr.floridaman4805]

@@nomanor7987 then why tell me does Europeans make up less than 10% of total population? Your lies is why I know for a fact that you are antiwhite. In self defense of myself and others you must be eliminated

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Now I'd like to have a big globe-spanning poll, in which we ask every person on earth, what continent they think they belong to. :D It would be ridiculous, expensive and unnecessary, but I'd love to see a map, made from those answers.

[@KhAnubis]

I actually like that idea, let's do it!

[@MondeSerenaWilliams]

This might actually be easier than you thought! We most definitely couldn't ask EVERY person on the globe, but we probably don't have to, just some samples from each region is probably enough.

[@limeliciousmapping4652]

I had the same idea yesterday before even seeing the video. But I think especially in disputed regions zhe term Eurasia is quite common

[@vladprus4019]

@@limeliciousmapping4652 I've heard that identifying own country as "Eurasian" is quite common thing in Russia and Turkey (I cannot verify, but it would not be surprising, also I don't know if it any close to majority)

[@Liggliluff]

Fund me, I'll go visit people on the borders of continents and ask them what continent "we're in right now".

[@dulljumbo4321]

Asia is actually probably the worst area definition of all time. it like encompasses a mindnumbingly large and diverse groups of people. belgians are very different from the vietnamese but no more different than a turk from both.

[@Cau_No]

That's probably why we have all these subcategories like middle east, far east, sub-saharan, polynesian, etc. Humans like to categorize.

[@vladprus4019]

That's my biggest problem with this division. It made sense for the ancient Greeks, but in wider context, "Asia" became to simply mean "Not Europe" (as it turned out land spreads a lot more East than West from the Aegean Sea so Asia became much more bloated than Europe)

[@biggibbs4678]

That's just because large and diverse groups of people live in a single giant land mass

[@dulljumbo4321]

@@biggibbs4678 the video made the point that the distinction that asia is a separate land mass is retarded.

[@berranari1]

@@vladprus4019 True.

[@janboreczek3045]

This division will always be highly arbitrary, as there is no geographical reason to divide Eurasia into two continents

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

Europe has not always been attached to Asia. This is literally why the Ural Mountains exist. Although at that time Europe would have been a large archipelago.

[@Periwinkleaccount]

@@TheSpiritombsableye doesn’t really affect it now. Besides, if I remember correctly, it wasn’t by that much.

[@GrigRP]

@@TheSpiritombsableye Geography from 100 million years ago is not relevant in this at all.

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

@@GrigRP it is. Continents are geographical.

[@GrigRP]

@@TheSpiritombsableye Yes, and they're defined by their geography as it is now, not an eon ago. Why are you struggling with this?

[@weatherreport8471]

So basically Europe is a peninsula of asia

[@LOL-ev8ft]

Technically yes, actually not.

[@Swastikanothookcross]

@@LOL-ev8ft hahahah

[@soberman1520]

if you say india is subcontinent so does europe india is different culturally religiously linguistically from the res of asia as much as europe if not less and if ural mountain become continental boundaries himalayas is even taller than ural that make the boundaries compact

[@LOL-ev8ft]

@@soberman1520 I Agree the very classification of asia is non sense

[@obliviongigan6360]

​@Nines :3 No one is trying to look high and might, Europe is entirely different from Asia with some small exceptions.

[@mapache-ehcapam]

South America is weird because technically the Panama Canal is the dividing line with North America but popularly the entire country of Panama is considered North American, not even the southern portion is considered South American. To me America is just one continent though, with 3 main subregions. And Europe+Asia is one continent, Eurasia, it makes more sense and it looks nicer, the name is dope too.

[@A.Mayflower127]

I think a better understanding of the America/s would be through four subregions North America (Canada, USA, Mexico, Greenland) The Caribbean (incl. Belize and southern Florida and Guyanas) Central America (all former members of the country) South America (Gran Colombia, Brazil, Andes, Cone) Each of these regions also have regions, and USA, Mexico, and Brazil even have subnational regions that are important distinctions But yeah I support Pan America theory

[@username65585]

If we go by plate tectonics then none of Panama is part of South America. Europe and Asia are one except India and the Arab Peninsula get to be their own continents.

[@JosePineda-cy6om]

going by tectonic plates seems more scientific-ish, but immediately you run into some problems: Mexico is in 4 diff continents, contiguous USA is in 3, the easternmost tip of Siberia is actually in North America, Africa is 2 cojoined continents trying to set themselves appart... Hawai'i is in its own continent, ditto for New Zealand

[@lazygongfarmer2044]

If the Americas are one continent, then you have to consider Africa as part of Eurasia. The division between Eurasia and Africa is the same as what "divides" the Americas in two, an isthmus

[@mapache-ehcapam]

@@lazygongfarmer2044 Agreed, but for the love of god, we need to come up with a better name than just the names of the 3 continents smashed together.

[@ericp0012]

It depends on who you ask. Some say that Europe’s borders end at Western Asia and Central Asia. However, some people in Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan identity more as European due to their relationship with the Council of Europe.

[@ararune3734]

Identify schmidentify, they're not European, they're borderlanders

[@solidwisdom8749]

Yea but geographically they’re more in Asia. Politically they can sometimes have European similarities because technically its the same landmass europe and asia

[@ararune3734]

@@solidwisdom8749 And because they hate their neighbors further in Asia lmao

[@cocaineminor4420]

@@ararune3734 hate? Those far East Asians never did anything to them why would they hate?

[@cocaineminor4420]

@@ararune3734 + those far East Asians have been isolated for thousands and thousands of years and have never been in contact with those western side of Asia.

[@ikerloop950]

If we are going to use culture as a reason to separate Europe from Asia, shouldn't we also consider India as a separate continent, actually it makes more sense for India to be considered a separate continent, since it's on its own separate tectonic plate unlike Europe on the Eurasian plate, the same like India goes for the Arabian peninsula.

[@WastedBananas]

exactly

[@Algeriawindows69]

yeah same thing with separating Africa to north and south if we used culture to separate continents

[@denizmergen418]

also south east and north east asia central asia middle east and notrh africa should be one continet as well

[@nadheem420]

Yeah, india is much more easy to categorise as a continent when considering geography compared to europe

[@damienthonk1506]

People almost always refer to India as it's own separate thing (hence the popular term "Indian Subcontinent.) Idk where people got this idea that people don't already do that.

[@ErnestJay88]

No wonder in Russia and most ex-soviet states there is no "Asia" and "Europe", but Eurasian Continent. Because if cultural differences makes a different continent, Middle East and India also have a different culture and ethnicity compare to China, Korea, and Japan.

[@corpo9310]

this is the reason why Subcontinents exists. South-asian culture might seem totally different from Western-asian but the subcontinent in-between South-east asia is undoubtedly influenced by both which is why you can traverse central China through Tibet to Nepal without noticing as obvious cultural changes

[@xxsupersayen34xxnoe33]

the soviet union created eurasia as a way to legitimise its rule over the asian part and not just seem like another european coloniser (which it definitely was before)

[@Madara_Uchiha69420]

@@xxsupersayen34xxnoe33 that... Doesn't even make sense

[@xxsupersayen34xxnoe33]

@@corpo9310 yes it does, the soviet union pushed for the concept of eurasia so the people already living in asia don't feel like they're being colonised by some foreign european power, before that the russian empire claimed to be european and the asian land could be compared to any other colonial empire

[@KateeAngel]

@@xxsupersayen34xxnoe33 nope. Eurasia just exists in physical geographic sense unlike "Europe" and "Asia". Look at the map.

[@nienke7713]

We're trying to find categorisation that encompasses multiple factors (culture, tectonic plates, bodies of water, mountain ranges, biogeography) so it's always going to be messy if we keep doing that. I think it's more useful to make categorisations for each individual purpose. Also, for some things, the borders may be a bit fuzzy, it's not surprising if certain things near the border might have some elements of both of the zones they're between. There can also be larger categories with smaller subcategories. E.g. there's a certain amount of cultural commonality between various European countries, but you can also still divide those up further into regions within Europe. But some things might also be different than we categorise now; North Africa tends to have more cultural similarity to the Middle East and even to some extent Mediteranian Europe than it does to Sub-Saharan Africa.

[@Tethloach1]

North Africa should be its own continent, we don't call Europe west Asia so we should call north Africa the middle east.

[@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl]

@natchu iwwi it is still fundamentaly Arabic

[@greenpoison9342]

Europe is a false continent based on Racial definition. It has no geographical legitimacy. It is part of Asia.

[@diabelgrogaty1963]

That's why I don't like categorization by continents. The cultural tradition and virtues of the country's people are much more important and real then some lines on the map.

[@amenhalleluyah1111]

@@Tethloach1 your culturally not from Africa you from the so-called Middle East which is another made-up category so please go home if you feel like that I mean we don't want you here anyway but that's like saying the United States is not in North America make the u.s.a. its own continent just go the hell home we don't like you anyhow.

[@chrisg7059]

The argument for Armenia, Georgia, and Cyprus doesn't really make sense because there is no such thing as "Asian culture" or even "Asian history" on the other side. There are Asian cultures and Asian histories, but they are identified specifically. "Ottoman", "Mongol", and "Meiji", for example, are all Asian histories, but they are so disparate that it makes no sense using "Asian" as a term to describe any of them in general.

[@1God1Fury]

Yup, middle east and far east asia like Japan, China are extremely different compared to lets say Turkey, Arabia. You will have to invent several new "continents" in Asia. Geographical borders is far accurate way divide landmasses without being based on own political, cultural view.

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

Because Europe is a Subcontinent at best. Like M.E , SEA, EA, Indian subcontinent.

[@hwg5039]

Yes because “Europe” is just a very Eurocentric thing

[@jonoc3729]

Georgia, Armenia and Cyprus are asian countries, dont know where people see the debate.

[@RedRocketthefirst]

@@jonoc3729 Then maybe actually look into it.

[@qwertyTRiG]

Kento Bento has covered these borders in more detail than sometimes seems necessary, but I enjoy his style. Khanubis dove more into the history.

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

I miss Kento Bento.

[@Ub3rSk1llz]

kento bento is a weirdo

[@HarisCountrys]

Yeah, I think the Caucasus is just a mess. The 3 countries could be considered both continents.

[@kugul1683]

That's not even taking the North Caucasus into account

[@johnnyespalahento2431]

North caucasus people are not asian or middle eastern or white

[@unknown-ob4yn]

only in asia and not gауrope

[@zucchina1360]

Fr😭

[@Circassiangurl2002]

FACTS!!! 😂😭

[@chadbonsack1166]

Your videos are very helpful I learned a lot in a short time. Keep up the awesome videos

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I have heard a bit about the peculiarities of the European-Asian border, but I didn't know just _how_ weird the idea was! From the Aegean Islands being without a continent, to placing the border at the Yenisei River (4:42), this ever-changing human-made line is quite odd! Thanks for the video! Also, nice pronunciation of "Azov" at 3:18. Furthermore, nice comedic moments at 3:19-3:23, 3:28-3:33, 4:29-4:35, and 4:52-4:58!

[@vladprus4019]

I would say that this division is not really relevant in all context. It made sense for ancient Greeks. It also made sense to have division between Western Europeans and East Asians when the direct contact between the two was established. But for Russia, Turkey, countries near Caucasus etc. is simply pointless classification for the sake of it. It kind of reminds me of debates by Americans about "Was ancient Egypt Black or White civilization", while their definition of "Black" and "White" meant primarily "resembling Western African" and "resembling North-Western European" respectivelly.

[@D.S.handle]

@@vladprus4019 for the countries of the Caucuses the question makes sense, because it involves chosing the geopolitical path they may want to take.

[@greenpoison9342]

Europe is a false continent based on Racial definition. It has no geographical legitimacy. It is part of Asia.

[@SomasAcademy]

~6:22 This graphic shows the country of Australia, not the continent of Australia; the Continent of Australia includes Papua/New Guinea. I have a video on my channel about the different borders of "Australia" if anyone is interested (there are actually three different geographical entities called Australia).

[@efeayar1222]

thats the joke

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

Wouldn't that just be Sahul?

[@SomasAcademy]

@@TheSpiritombsableye Sahul is a term specific to the united landmass of the Australian continent during the Ice Age; the landmasses of the Australian continent aren't called Sahul when they're disconnected.

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

@@SomasAcademy, they're still connected. It's just under meters of water.

[@victordesouza5604]

The country is called Australia and the continent (which includes all the islands) is called Oceania!!!

[@nenenindonu]

Geographically : Marmara Sea, Gibraltar Strait, Ural Mountains and the Greater Caucasus Culturally : Debatable regions which would consist of transitions rather than clear borders

[@K3rrJu5t1n]

Some: Bruh all of them are large islands That one person: THERE ARE NO CONTINENTS

[@berranari1]

Europe not a continent.

[@berranari1]

@@K3rrJu5t1n WTF?

[@aliksanon6491]

about the caucasus border i have to point out that the more common arguements nowdays are about which caucasus mountains to use, greater or lesser (greater excludes georgia,armenia, azerbaijan) while the lesser caucasus mountains include them, another is to use political borders of the 3 countries instead of geographic which also seems to be gaining some traction for simplicity sake , i havent heard much discussion about puttin the border above the greater mountains for a while.

[@noname-us3ci]

Greater Caucasus mountains doesn't exclude Azerbaijan. Stop at 00:12 and check the map . It even includes capital of Azerbaijan which 3mln people leave and 1 mln is for the population lives northern slope of Caucasus mountain. So 4 mln out of 10 mln lives in Eurooean side.

[@HarvestStore]

Great video.

[@Zakir2024]

Again a nice video

[@starfthegreat]

The whole cultural argument used to divide Europe and Asia never made much sense to me, as I a West Asian Lebanese man has very little in common with an East Asian Vietnamese. In fact culturally I'm closer to European Greeks than I am to East Asians. A Russian man in Vladivostok is geographically Asian, yet culturally he has little in common with his Chinese neighbours in Manchuria. Does this mean he's not Asian?

[@xxsupersayen34xxnoe33]

that's because continents don't have anything to do with culture, that's why we sometime say stuff like "cyprus is culturally european", because the original definition of continents didn't take culture into account so if we want to talk about culture we need to bring other arbitrary borders

[@cocaineminor4420]

Vietnamese ain't east Asian that's southeast Asian but either way east Asians and southeast Asian share alot of similarity.

[@cocaineminor4420]

And usually the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai , Malay , Indonesian , Filipino, Cambodians , Singaporean, Laos , Myanmar, Brunei hangout out with each other.

[@hanggaraaryagunarencagutuh7072]

To Starfthegreat, how I solve such a problem: * Asia should be just categorized as Far Eastern Eurasia * Arabia is Near Eastern Eurasia, Western Eurasia or Southwestern Eurasia * Europe is Northwest Eurasia * India should be considered as a separate landmass * Maritime Southeast Asia should be only limited to Singapore and the Eurasian continental plate-based isles administratively owned by Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and West Malaysia. Areas like Indonesia, East Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines and Timor-Leste should be categorized as West Oceanian areas. * Oceania can be divided into six subregions: (1) Proper Polynesia or East Oceania, (2) Micronesia & Taiwan or Northwest Oceania, (3) Melanesia or Central Oceania, (4) Australasia/Australantaranesia or Southwest Oceania, (5) Antaranesia or West Oceania, (6) Zealandia or Far South Oceania.

[@hanggaraaryagunarencagutuh7072]

​@@cocaineminor4420 I consider Indonesians, East Malaysians, Filipinos, Cambodians, Singaporean Aborigines, Bruneians, and Taiwanese Aborigines as Oceanians.

[@CMoore-Gaming]

With continents being about culture as much as actual geography, I think the middle east and India should be considered separate continents from Asia aswell.

[@hanggaraaryagunarencagutuh7072]

Yes, I don't consider India to be Asians. Amidst the renaming of "the country of India" as "the country of Bharat", I think it's safe to say that India is now merely a continent. Middle East? I think only those parts of Arabian continental plate that should be considered as non-Asians.

[@KidGibson]

We separate by oceans which are essentially deserts. We need to separate continents (divisions of culture) based on deserts and isolated areas.

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

Good point. For example North Africa is much more connected to Europe than it is to sub Saharan Africa

[@saladmcjones7798]

If you're comparing oceans to deserts for their isolating and population dividing properties, mountains also fall into that category. Which coincidentally is what they already use for separating continents, as shown in the video.

[@Criegrrunov]

Whenever I play Halo and see those huge landmasses all over the Halo rings, I wonder how civilizations would have interacted with each other on a world with so much land, with different geography, and with the fact that since it is a ring, a civilization on a certain point wouldn't know barely anything about the one right above them, as they would have to travel dozens of Earth's worth of land and sea to reach them. That is thinking it from a Greek / Medieval time perioid, if it was today's technology, stuff like the internet would make it easier for these civilizations to know each other, tho actually getting there would still be a pain, even with planes, it would require hundreds of scales and months of travel, maybe civilizations here would develop teleportation and make it a reality much sooner than we would probably do here due to strict necessity, or I don't know. Fun to think about tho.

[@nimacastro7664]

Separating Asia from Europe doesn't make sense geographically. It's a one land.

[@greatpyramid4348]

Africa too

[@mondoman712]

It seems to me like we should make the distinction between geographic continents and cultural continents.

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

If not specified, by default it is geographic.

[@mondoman712]

@@TheSpiritombsableye is it though? Europe isn't really a geographic continent (as pointed out in the video) but if somebody asks me about continents I would assume it would include Europe.

[@GlaceonStudios]

Basically, you can assume that a cultural continent is a subcontinent. India, Arabia, Europe, and Malayonesia are basically just subcontinents of Asia--though Siberia and the Stans might want a word with that.

[@greenpoison9342]

Europe is a false continent based on Racial definition. It has no geographical legitimacy. It is part of Asia.

[@mondoman712]

@@greenpoison9342 that's my point, it's only really a cultural continent

[@hazorg16]

I mean the video was good and I was going to like it but man, that commercial was great!

[@yiannicart]

As an Aegean islander, I just found out my family's island is technically in Asia, thank you @KhAnubis, you truly are the king of kings.

[@MellohiYT]

if i may ask, what island? Rhodes? or do you prefer not to say

[@yiannicart]

@@MellohiYT Not Rhodes, but the North Aegean island Ikaria. I knew Ikaria was part of the 'Roman province of Asia', and the people of the island consider it very much Europe. It's just fun to see sometimes the technicalities of where lines fall.

[@mariopanago2870]

No you are Greek and you are in Europe unless you want to be swallowed up by Turkey then believe you are in Asia.

[@Tsukonin]

@@yiannicart Yeah, it's all imaginary at the end of the day. There is no objective reason for calling one side Asia and the other Europe.

[@greenpoison9342]

Europe is a false continent based on Racial definition. It has no geographical legitimacy. It is part of Asia.

[@LanternOfLiberty]

In the 1970s in my birth country - - Sweden - the entire caucuses was included in maps of Europe. Asia started in Turkey and Iran. Probably cuz of the Soviet Union?

[@tysonwastaken]

im from america and i learned that too but i grew up in the early 2010s

[@zealandia5668]

Fun fact: If we follow the Asia-Europe boundary definition used in this video, Siberia (Northern Asia) is not the only part of Russia which is geographically a part of Asia. Other than Siberia, Asian Russia also includes a small coastal strip from Novorossiysk to Sochi (which is located south of the Greater Caucasus watershed and geographically a part of Western Asia) and the southern portion of Orenburg Oblast (which is located south of the Ural River and geographically a part of Central Asia).

[@berranari1]

Fact; in Russia they don't bother learning any stupid boundary that separates Europe from Asia. They are taught that Eurasia is one continent. Russia and I agree on something. 😀

[@mapadventures]

Love it.

[@TheRagingPlatypus]

What is ridiculous is that people consider Europe and Asia two continents and the very same people will argue North and South America are one continent.

[@xxsupersayen34xxnoe33]

continents are arbitrary, they stopped being based on logic when people outside the greek world started to use it, now they're just based on culture

[@berranari1]

They call those people "French". 😁 This shows their bias. To the French both the Americas were the "New World" one place far from their "Old World".

[@berranari1]

@@xxsupersayen34xxnoe33 Yes they are arbitrary, but the world won't end if people realize that Europe being given that designation was a mistake. By not doing so the world is still making shit up as it goes along. Being a "white supremist" or a "male chauvinist" is also arbitrary. They are like that because of their opinions. Something can be arbitrary but still be sorted out by people coming together and sensibly discussing it.

[@TheRagingPlatypus]

@@berranari1 The Germans do it too.

[@ItalianIrishguy]

They are all different continents.

[@greconerd8891]

In Greece all of the Aegean Islands are considered as part of Europe except of Kastelorizo in some sources. Greece isn't actually thought to be a transcontinental country that much.

[@rodneysam3574]

Europe and Asia is really one continuous landmass. Africa has mountains, deserts and all kind of geographical barriers and isn't separated into two continents. Look at a huge country like Russia. Is that really Europe? To me, all these markers are purely cultural.

[@cheerful_crop_circle]

Yes

[@poisonousabsinthe]

Hey @KhAnubis: is your moniker a somewhat veiled reference to the funny green leaf? If so: loved it. Clever.

[@mathmeetsmusic]

1:49 woa... I've never seen that map before! If this is the first map of the world ever known to the greeks why wasn't it shown in my history textbooks!? This is REALLY important to how ancient greeks saw the world and humbling for someone living in our time period.

[@koharumi1]

In a way, Asia Europe and Africa are all one landmass.

[@ararune3734]

Technically nobody cares, it's a different realm

[@cocaineminor4420]

@@ararune3734 Asia is a different realm itself when you go to West Asia you see Arab culture when you go to South Asia you see south Asian culture when you go east Asia you will see east Asian culture.

[@WastedBananas]

@@cocaineminor4420 You can just say Indic culture. Indic as in "indo-aryan". South Asian is not a culture or a language or a religion, it doesn't really mean anything

[@user-jt3dw6vv4x]

@@WastedBananas No, it's South Asian culture. Indo-Aryan is NOT a culture.

[@WastedBananas]

No such thing as a "south Asian" go back to Malaysia @@user-jt3dw6vv4x

[@jmtz3149]

I remember being taught that Australia was a one country continent. It makes sense in a way, the rest of Oceania are just islands. It’s just leaves the islands with out a label

[@xxsupersayen34xxnoe33]

is merger between the australian continent and the pacific island is very recent and just hasn't happened in the us, that's why wikipedia keep claiming that oceania isn't a continent but a "region", cuz they wa''a stay neutral

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

Yes Australia is a continent. Oceania is a region. Those islands have a label. It's the Pacific Ocean. But there is also the concept of Australasia which I think is basically Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and the islands in between.

[@berranari1]

Islands usually "belong" to a continent. Examples Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Baffin Island. There are exceptions like Iceland and New Zealand.

[@chesterdonnelly1212]

@@berranari1 yes, thank you. I agree. Iceland is a mid Atlantic island and not part of the continent of Europe.

[@hanggaraaryagunarencagutuh7072]

@@berranari1 For socio-geopolitical reasons, yes, those aforementioned three areas you mentioned above "belong" to a continent. However, still, I can't say the same about Sri Lanka, as it's not even a part of the Eurasian continental plate, so nope, I don't consider Sri Lanka to be a part of Asia. It's also the same with countries that are classified as "Maritime Southeast Asian countries", as it should've been a part of Oceania and Sundalandia.

[@Stellarionas]

Europe and Asia are actually a single continent (Eurasia). The division between Europe and Asia is topographical and also partially geological. The boundaries between Europe and Asia are the: 1. Ural Mountains 2. Ural River 3. Caspian Sea 4. Caucasus 5. the entire coastline of Anatolia/Asia Minor 6. the underwater boundaries between the Aegean micro-plate and the Anatolian micro-plate (hence Imbros, Tenedhos, Ro-Kastellorizo-Strongyli, and Cyprus are part of Asia)

[@kieran_bk]

Can everyone in these comments stop saying “it should be a peninsula of Asia” no. It is called Eurasia, not Asia, I am not Asian I am Eurasian.

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

Indeed! If Europe was a part of Asia, this would make the very term "Eurasian" pointless! Hence, if Europe and Asia were to be regarded as one continent or supercontinent, it would all be "Eurasia!" Thanks for the comment!

[@kieran_bk]

@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions yess

[@hanggaraaryagunarencagutuh7072]

@@kieran_bk ​How I solve such a problem: * Asia should be just categorized as Far Eastern Eurasia * Arabia is Near Eastern Eurasia, Western Eurasia or Southwestern Eurasia * Europe is Northwest Eurasia * India should be considered as a separate landmass * Maritime Southeast Asia should be only limited to Singapore and the Eurasian continental plate-based isles administratively owned by Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and West Malaysia. Areas like Indonesia, East Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines and Timor-Leste should be categorized as West Oceanian areas. * Oceania can be divided into six subregions: (1) Proper Polynesia or East Oceania, (2) Micronesia & Taiwan or Northwest Oceania, (3) Melanesia or Central Oceania, (4) Australasia/Australantaranesia or Southwest Oceania, (5) Antaranesia or West Oceania, (6) Zealandia or Far South Oceania.

[@Circassiangurl2002]

Finally somebody said it. 😂

[@125discipline2]

europe is not continent. dont know why people are so thick headed about it, they clump up asia as one continent even tho many part of asia have separate tectonic plate, culture, and history.

[@god6326]

Asia is an eastern part of Europe

[@tommasopaniccia7551]

"We have collectively decided..." False. Some influential people sees it as..., and this is taught in places such as... Maps of Europe in Europe vary a lot, and depending on the year and on the place, they include or exclude Russia as a whole, just some western parts, or what is shown here as "established". Bonus points: every European knows Cyprus is in Europe.

[@fakshen1973]

It's not about anything other than a group of people NOT wanting to be associated with another group of people. The divide is there to satisfy an "-ism" and nothing more.

[@WastedBananas]

facts

[@philipsullivan4885]

Really nailed that reporter pause.

[@jacob4920]

Ever since I was a kid, the geographical division between Europe and Asia never made any sense to me. The two "continents" share the same ginormic landmass, by a significant margin, so why do we waste so much brain power trying to separate the two?? That's why there is really only one continent, between the two: EURASIA! This word is already used to denote both landmasses collectively. Why can't it become the standard by which we define this half of our planet?

[@hanggaraaryagunarencagutuh7072]

You can safely identify yourself as a Northwest Eurasian. If you're from a country that is geographically a part of "Near Insular Northwest Europe" a.k.a. "British Isles", you can identify yourself as either an Atlantican or a Northwestern Northwest Eurasian/Northwest European.

[@brunooftrenzalore]

Oh, I have visited this border in Urals and there is even a border sign there.

[@vermull19]

Funny topic, but people are overstating it unnecessarily. But maybe I see it that way because I am Czech and the Czech language handled the problem elegantly, only the translation is a bit scratchy because Czech distinguishes between Kontinenty=continents and Světadíly (literally parts of the world)=continents. There are 5 officially recognized Kontinenty/continents (but even 4 are taken as good thanks to Afro-Eurasia) and 7 světadíly/continents (it even recognizes the 8 if you divide Astralia and Oceania). We also have 1 subcontinent, India, though I don't understand why, but that's beside the point.

[@jordancarr454]

Not often I comment, nor actually have this reaction, but I genuinely spluttered at "...who was also dead".

[@frankchan4272]

From what heard was Europe & Asia was more political & racial thing as that is technically one continent.

[@mojaslovenija9903]

Europe is the West part of continent Eurasia. Asia is the Eastern part... there is only one continent: Eurasia. Obsolete dividde to two continents is just "cultural" not geographical or by geology.

[@rogerahier4750]

If the plates are moving in different directions, it should be easy to tell. If they aren't moving in relation to each other, they are the same plate, so there really is no geological boundary.

[@mohamadabduljalil4578]

as a Syrian living in the Emirates, I consider the middle east to also be a continent in it's own right for the same reasons Europe is considered a continent. 1. our culture is nothing like Asian culture. 2. it is separated from the rest of Asia by mountains. 3. it is from the first person perspective of a middle eastern, me.

[@hanggaraaryagunarencagutuh7072]

Yes, Mideast (excluding western Egypt) can be considered a separate landmass or subregion from the rest of Asia. Anyway, how I solve such a problem: * Asia should be just categorized as Greater Eurasia * Arabia is Near Eastern Eurasia, Western Eurasia or Southwestern Eurasia * Europe is Northwest Eurasia * India should be considered as a separate landmass * Maritime Southeast Asia should be only limited to Singapore and the Eurasian continental plate-based isles administratively owned by Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and West Malaysia. Areas like Indonesia, East Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines and Timor-Leste should be categorized as West Oceanian areas. * Oceania can be divided into six subregions: (1) Proper Polynesia or East Oceania, (2) Micronesia & Taiwan or Northwest Oceania, (3) Melanesia or Central Oceania, (4) Australasia/Australantaranesia or Southwest Oceania, (5) Antaranesia or West Oceania, (6) Zealandia or Far South Oceania.

[@anameglass1607]

In our class we learn Cotinents like Asia, Africa, Europa, etc and Tectonic plates like North & South American plates, African plate, India plate, Eurasian plate, etc. And yes Siberia part of russian federation is North Asia while the so called Middle East and Levant are West Asia.

[@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl]

The Levant is middle east. Middle East is the regions of Levant,Arabia, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, cuccause, Iran and Egypt

[@furn6341]

@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl The Levant is in Europe. Get educated.

[@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl]

@@furn6341 it is in Asia!!!. West Asia to be more exact

[@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl]

@Sao Ham it isn't how we say it in Arabic. But I am using the term westerns like to use

[@berranari1]

Europa was a woman in Roman mythology. Europa is a moon of Jupiter. Europe is not a continent, not anymore. That mistake is being corrected. It's just taking a really long time. In the meantime, the Flat Earth movement is growing larger. Ignorance is battling back on many fronts. I have never heard of "North Asia", probably because bugger all people live there and those that do are called Siberian.

[@Misserbi]

For the sake of the current border crisis in Europe I believe it is important to observe Europe including just the Northern Caucasus as part of Europe and those nations there as unlike the Moscovy who are now sitting around looking at this post saying, "Gee, I wish the Caucasus would stop including everyone as European?" I think that would end the problem there. The Moscovy are not Kievan and not Circassian (for example).

[@thraciensis3589]

This does does not take consideration of other lost continents that has the tectonic divides. There is a new continent discovered called Balkanatolia. It stretches from Caucasus, Anatolia, Balkans to Austria and Northern Italy. This continents tectonic lines still exist. Turkish straights formed just a few thousand years ago. There was lake there. The lake was Marmara Sea. The two edges of the this lake collapsed. It united with Aegean and Black Sea. Black Sea was a lake as well. It turned into a sea after that. Turkish straights are brand new in geographical sense. They CAN NOT be a continental divide factor. Turkish Anatolian peninsula is totally connected with Balkan peninsula.

[@marcwenger9424]

6:49 sweet stache man

[@hj1151]

if europe is a continent because of culture, middle east north africa, south asia, central asia and east asia should be a continent too

[@nickiseb8910]

Europe is geologically a peninsula of Asia. Asia is just a Greek word for east where the sun come up. Anatolia (today mostly turkey) was named Micra Asia if I remember well.

[@hanggaraaryagunarencagutuh7072]

I think it's much more accurate to say it's a peninsula-looking Eurasian area.

[@tamarigabaidze3718]

5% of Georgia's territory is north of the Caucasus range and is in Europe. Georgia is a transcontinental country. You may not want it to be like that, but the fact is the fact.

[@pineapplesareyummy6352]

On the basis that continents are either completely separate landmasses, or at most joined to each other by a narrow isthmus, the continents would be Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica and Australia.

[@adhscientist6763]

nice

[@barryminor6245]

According to definition technically Europe is not a continent, it's actually the extreme western part of Asia. America is not a country yet two continents, one each in the Northern & Southern hemispheres, with a combination of 35 separate countries.

[@marktrain9498]

I wish people would just say "Eurasia". It's a single continent.

[@fawfulfan]

I mean, yeah, Belgium and Vietnam aren't very much alike at all, but it's not like Panama and Nunavut are that similar and no one says they're on different continents.

[@koalbehy9760]

okay, your ad read was creative and genuinely made me laugh. good job !!

[@glennabate1708]

We should consider Cyprus apart of Europe and help Greece conquer the whole island.

[@glennabate1708]

Like how Malta was considered part of Africa but is now Europe.

[@iraklipiranishvili3352]

Georgia also happens to be trans continental :V as Kazbegi and part of Tusheti regions are on northen side of Caucasus :V

[@hanggaraaryagunarencagutuh7072]

It's still Eurasia

[@fid.firdhaus]

its pretty hard to draw continents especially when its cultural sense. Europe is mainly white, but asia compasses of not just chinese but arabian peninsular, indian subcontinent and malay archipelago as well as the the rest of austronesian which are totally different breed of people from east asian just like how white are distinct from chinese. Best way to divide land to me is probably the tectonic plate.

[@kagar3465]

Did you know the North American plate sits on a good chunk of the Eurasian landmass? It eats up, Chukotka, Kamchatka, basically half of Yakutia and a large part of Northern Japan.

[@cocaineminor4420]

@@kagar3465 but that's still considered Asian because Asian people are native to that land.

[@keboonplumeria5266]

Interesting that it was determined quite earlier on. It just makes sense.

[@koguma8823]

as someone born and raised in istanbul, the europe-asia divide has never, at any point in time, made any sense to me

[@juliansteffen5197]

But It does make sense because of its geography and the culture of your country. Turkey will never be european.

[@Goldenskies__]

@@juliansteffen5197 Do you understand that It doesn't make sense anymore to not want Turkey in Europe? I used to think like you, but now we're full of Muslims in western Europe anyway... we don't want the Turks but Islam is everywhere anyway... At this point let the Turks in, they're more similar to us than the infinite numbers of Pakistanis in Europe... use your brain. Maybe the Turks can help us, by influencing other Muslims and making them more... Europeans.

[@tugrulgudul5281]

​@@juliansteffen5197 Actually, you're not European either. you are far west. Personally, we are in asia minor. If we have to make a cultural definition like you, we are Anatolian.

[@MugOfJoe]

@@tugrulgudul5281no where near anatolian, your people didnt exist in anatolia before 1100s, you came from the steppes, and migrated into anatolia, with the greeks and native anatolians

[@b.g.9158]

@@juliansteffen5197 thats not you to decide, Türkiye has claims on both fictional continents. They can feel european or asian or both :P

[@meneither3834]

I say we should consider Europe as a subcontinent. Then we got three neat spheres, Indian subcontinent, East Asia and Europe, Idk what to do with the Middle east and central asia though.

[@randomstrategy7679]

Eurasia is big enough to be split into 6 subcontinents: 1) Europe 2) Siberia 3) Middle-East 4) India 5) Malay archipelago/south east asia 6) China/Japan/east asia.

[@Carewolf]

First of all you need to use West Asia instead of Middle East, since the Middle East doesn't include Turkey (the Near East) or Iran (the border of the Middle East).

[@furn6341]

@@Carewolf west asia is europe

[@meneither3834]

@@Carewolf The term Middle-east almost always includes Anatolia.

[@Carewolf]

@@meneither3834 As many uses it, maybe. Then again I have heard Middle East commonly used for Egypt and Afghanistan too, which is definitely wrong. How far are we willing to stretch definitions to accommodate people who don't know any better?

[@hjalmarfreidenvall1655]

Neat

[@MDDM_Official]

Haha Taipei Main Station as the backdrop for the ad 🇹🇼

[@LeoDas688]

Africa almost is surrounded by water, and same is true for north and south america,so if we need to have continents, Eurasia,africa and north and south america would make sense

[@TheLithp]

Add Antarctica & Australia, & I'm in.

[@Liggliluff]

(0:05) I've crossed many European borders without a passport

[@Michael_the_Drunkard]

The eastern aegean islands are assigned to Europe in most maps.

[@Siniy.]

actually caucasus europe-asia border is disputed. some say it should follow caucasus mountains, some say to follow georgia, armenia and azerbaijan borders with iran and turkey, some this some that.

[@kevintan6618]

Notice how everyone mentioned to be involved in deciding this border is from Europe

[@WastedBananas]

The idea of "Asia" itself is a completely Eurocentric notion.

[@cristhianramirez6939]

Yeaah, Europe > everyone else

[@HateTheIRS]

It ends where I say it does

[@molybd3num823]

so where does it end

[@bababababababa6124]

@@molybd3num823 where he says it does

[@HarisCountrys]

And where do you say it ends lol.

[@HarisCountrys]

@@bababababababa6124 You're not wrong.

[@HateTheIRS]

@@HarisCountrys over there

[@evamamani9026]

In latin america 30 coutries 5 or 6 continents : asia america africa europe oceania (australia)artartida also coutries as: china south korea indonesia vietnam turkey spain france italy azerbaiyan greece rumania portugal taiwan iran and others coutries

[@romarioestrela4447]

Então a Califórnia está em outro continente que não é o Norte-Americano, já que fica a oeste das montanhas rochosas? E a América do Sul, são dois continentes também, divididos pelos Andes?

[@mahmoodabbasi6120]

If Cyprus, Armenia, Georgia are more European than Asian ...then Egypt, Libya are more Middle-Eastern than African, all of Mediterranean is closer to one another rather than Greece being close to Scandinavia by virtue of being Europe or Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) being close to Sub Sharan Africa like Congo only because of being part of the African landmass or Lebanon being closer to Japan instead of Tunisia or Europe. All of these divisions are vague and must not instill emotions among people or dictate geo-politics...People should have an identity on shared values and not shared geography and other things. But then identity itself is a human construct.

[@cazwalt9013]

No other continent has as much cultural connection between its countries like Europe does and yes Greece and Scandinavian countries have a lot in common plus only Cyprus should be counted as European, georgia and armenia are Asian

[@mahmoodabbasi6120]

@@cazwalt9013 Yes agreed. Greece and Scandinavia have a lot in common (not denying any of that) but Greece also has a lot in common culturally with Anatolia, Maghreb (especially Tunisia), Egypt ..pretty much all of Mediterranean has this cultural affinity for historical reasons or otherwise. A country is bound to have closer ties with those who are Geographically closer to it. And Greece was the center of Mediterranean culture, Hellenism was more widespread in near East all the way upto modern day Afghanistan instead of Scandinavia. The reason why Scandinavia and Greece are part of the same Continent while Greece and Egypt are not part of the same is simple... Europe's identity is built around Christendom & Racial basis (White Indo-Europeans), First world modern democracies and not on Roman empire or Greeko-Roman civilization or any vague Geographical idea.

[@mahmoodabbasi6120]

@@cazwalt9013 "No other continent has as much cultural connection between its countries like Europe does" Because all other Continents are many times greater than europe in size and population. Indian sub-continent and Mainland China could be Continents in their own right ... India a single country is itself far more diversed culturally, linguistically, religiously than all of Europe. Now you can only imagine a Continent like Asia which encompasses all of these countries - India, China, Middle East, Central Asia and greater half of Russia with many countries still left like Japan, Korea etc. ! There is no way it will have the same level of cultural affinity across its expanse that europe has. Europe is after all just another peninsula on the Eurasian Landmass.

[@mahmoodabbasi6120]

@@cazwalt9013Cyprus is a different story altogether its actually two countries one european (Greek) and another Asian (Noeth Cyrpus - Turk) If you ask most Georgians and Armenians would say they are part of Europe/Europeans. Next thing Israel and Lebanon will start saying they are Europe. And who knows even Central Asia becomes Eastern europe just for the sake of it ! I personally consider Russia neither Asian nor European but a Eurasian country in its own right.

[@laonch6073]

@@mahmoodabbasi6120 I kinda agree, but you're forgetting that there is a reason if things are this way, it's history. A millennia and half years ago, you wouldn't had hesitated to call costal Northern Africans, costal middle East and Turkey "Europe". They all used to follow mostly the same tradition, faith, customs, laws and authority. Then history happened. For example Islam happened and suddenly a huge migration of traditions and new population came to middle East and northern Africa. History progressed and Europe dominated every single other continent, Russians desperately tried to be as other Europeans and so Europeanised western Russia (successfully if you ask me). Since Europe dictated the rest of the world thanks to its superiority in every single thing, when they drew the maps, being so different from non Europeans, they made Europe a continent and the centre of the world. If thing were east of Europe then it was Asia, if they were south they were Africa and if they were west then they were America. I mean, of course it isn't right to put everything eastern of Europe as one GIGANTIC single entity and call it "Asia", but at the time maps were drew, Europe could and did do as Europe wanted. After more than five centuries, I guess people got used to it.

[@herschelwright4663]

Let's be honest, Europe and Asia are one in the same.

[@berranari1]

I don't think this is about honesty. It is a measure of intelligence. Can people "figure out" what something is by looking at facts or will they just believe what they are told to believe?

[@ahsanurr4219]

Like America is a continent

[@news_internationale2035]

No.

[@news_internationale2035]

​@@ahsanurr4219Nope, North America is cut off from South America by the Darien Mountains.

[@georgebrankov2143]

These are completely disputed territorial boundaries. It is said that the capitals of Georgia and Azerbaijan - Tbilisi and Baku are part of Europe. The borders you mentioned are in favor of Asia at the expense of Europe.

[@user-ix7iu4wf8o]

Does it really matter ? Will it affect anything or your trip/understanding ?

[@gamermapper]

I think it doesn't make sense that the North Caucasus is considered Asian and the South Caucasus European when culturally speaking, the mostly Christian South Caucasus (georgia, armenia) is closer to Europe than the more Muslim, multiethnic and weird North Caucasus (Chechnya, Circassia, Kalmykia)

[@vladprus4019]

It's almost like the division itself make sense only in some context (although, I would argue that terminology is still present in modern day mainly because people are used to it and for most of them it doesn't make a difference, because line of division is far from where they live, not because it is "making sense"), but with the other (like when talking about Caucasus region) makes very little sense.

[@gamermapper]

@@vladprus4019 I think ideally, the Caucasus should be just considered a subregion of Eurasia, distinct from Europe and from other subregions. And Europe itself is also just a subregion or subcontinent, not a continent. Just like America is a continent, North and South America subregions and Central America also part of neither and just a subregion.

[@user-p1zduchiy]

Так чел, у них то одна кавказская культура

[@user-p1zduchiy]

Калмыкия не Кавказ

[@Master-Maksimum]

You are mistaken, although the North Caucasians are Muslims, outwardly and culturally they are more similar to Europeans. And Georgians and Armenians are similar to Iranians, Arabs and Turks, although they are Christians.

[@takunx]

I find it weird how on the Eurasian landmass only Europeans gets to have and use a unique name whole the rest of the people on the landmass are called "Asians" even though there are many unique regions people. Technically we can call Europeans "far western Asians". But I'm sure many Europeans would not like being called that as they think there different and rest are "Asians", maybe a term used to refer to non-Europeans as an "other". Of course this "other" idea was used to justify colonialism on the rest of Eurasia. I think it would be interesting of each region of the Eurasia was not just lumped together with one word and had their own unique name for each distinct region.

[@lazygongfarmer2044]

Based

[@vladprus4019]

"I think it would be interesting of each region of the Eurasia was not just lumped together with one word and had their own unique name for each distinct region." "India" used to be like that (unique name for distinc region), but Two Nations Theory, Indian nationalism and stuff like that dropped and the term itself started being associated in modern context as exlusively specific modern state, so much less distinctive term "South Asia" was being made into use instead. I get the sentiment for sure, but sadly at the moment it doesn't seem to change.

[@user-cx9nc4pj8w]

In the english speaking world at least "Asian" generally means people who look similiar to han chinese and other similiar ethnic groups, and doesn't not include India/South Asia, or the middle east.

[@takunx]

@@user-cx9nc4pj8w in some places like in the UK all those groups are lump together as “Asian”. While other places like the US “Asian” usually refers to mongloids and sometimes Indians. It’s weird and can be confusing and misleading.

[@marimar3161]

@@user-cx9nc4pj8w you're wrong. In the UK, Asian refers to Indians and sometimes even Arabs.

[@webcelt]

I'm guessing in several hundred comments before mine, someone mentioned tectonic plates, but since I don't want to read several hundred comments: tectonic plates. What do the geologists think? Maybe Eurasia is actually several continents. For getting by purposes, I think of the Urals as the dividing line, and the Middle East as its own area.

[@tessjuel]

Most of Eurasia is on a single tectonic plate. There are some exceptions, the biggest ones are the Indian plate (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), the Arabian plate (the Middle East) and the Amur Plate (part of Siberia).

[@xplerped3527]

As a geologist, Europe is treated separately from Asia when studying geologic history of the last 550 million years. In fact, the European core, 'Baltica' has spent similar or more time sutured to Laurentia (North America) than Asia until Pangea assembly where it was sutured along the Ural Mountains. Eurasia is a more "young" land mass that is really an ongoing supercontinent assembly that will likely form the core of the next 'pangea'. So for geologists, there is a very different view point for continents than geographic ones.

[@WastedBananas]

@@tessjuel Bhutan is on the Eurasian plate I think

[@tz7609]

It's interesting how europeans created the concept of "europe" to describe that they are not asian and justify it saying that it reflects culture when places like India, Iran, Kazakhistan, China or Camboya had nothing in common culturally

[@eltecnico9541]

Iran and North Pakistan and India have Indo-Iranian ancestry and speak Indo-European languages, also Haplogroups R are somewhat distantly related, Chinese and Cambodians have no relation

[@user-jt3dw6vv4x]

@@eltecnico9541 Haplogroup R is one haplogroup that is only found among some males and not among all males in those regions.

[@notchurka3332]

There is a divide very real than any racial, cultural, or geographic divide that no one talks about. The real divide between Europe and Asia is the Squat Toilet. This is a divide deeper than any ocean and higher than any mountain. You start to see squat toilets in Kalmykia, north of the northern Caucasus, all the way to Japan in the east... Therefore, Asia starts in Kalmykia and ends in Japan. You're welcome!

[@ararune3734]

Scientifically based and elaborated, thank you for your contributions sir.

[@antjeeismann4684]

👍

[@ElJosher]

Amazing, truly an amazing deduction you’ve made. 9000% agree.

[@Madara_Uchiha69420]

Why does this make more sense than some of the 10min videos on this bs

[@westrim]

To quote my favorite UN Secretary-General, "wherever I goddamn like."

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I wonder which UN secretary-general said it? After all, this seems to be a rather accurate answer!

[@justotorres8970]

Most People outside of Europe don't recognize Europe as its own more as a region of asia like the Middle East , and East Asia but all one.

[@Suite_annamite]

I have a *friend* from the Russian Republic of *Bashkortostan* who is definitely *equally "mixed"* in his heritage: you *can't tell if he is European or Asian* just be looking at him, as *he simply "looks Russian".* And *you can't "tell"* where he is from *by his name* either either, as *his last name is Ukrainian.* His *Bashkir friends* look even more Asian than him, and - as a Vietnamese - could easily mistake them for *upper-class Vietnamese mandarins.*

[@KateeAngel]

He looks Bashkir. Ethnic Russians in >90% cases look 100% European

[@akbulutarda472]

Bashkortostan is turkic not russian

[@Raidon8537]

Because Bashkirs, Chuvash, Tatars are Turkic peoples. Thats why they look Asian. Russians are Europeans and most Russians live in European side.

[@angeldude101]

There are 2 continents: Afro-Eurasia and America. Australia is a large island and Antarctica is an archipelago covered in ice to make it look like a single landmass. Alternatively, they're are 7 continents: Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Oceania, and Indo-Australia. Why "Indo-Australia"? Blame geologists.

[@ahsanurr4219]

America is a continent.

[@christiankurniawan6588]

It is wherever europeans feels like the rest is not europeans

[@sub-zero_]

would that make Georgia eligable for Nato membership and not Armenia? and isnt parts of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan in Europe aswell?

[@avninbar]

I think afro-euro-asia and the Americans should be considered one continent Sebria and Alaska are not that far off from each other Australia along with Antarctica(if the ice melts over there it is honestly pretty small) should be considered islands and we have a gigantic pretty continent.

[@cazwalt9013]

The boundaries of Europe are the following: -the Ural mountains -the strait of Gibraltar -the Caucasus Plus excluding: -the European side of turkey -the parts of Kazakhstan west of the Ural mountains -georgia and armenia And including Cyprus since Iceland is counted as Europe while being in the middle of the Atlantic and all the Aegean islands and Malta are part of Europe too

[@batuhaner6723]

You exclude those lands because you want to?

[@cazwalt9013]

@@batuhaner6723 no because they're not culturally European

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

@@cazwalt9013 dumbest comment evwr😹 not all asians are culturally similar.

[@Carewolf]

@@cazwalt9013 Well, Persia and northern India is Indo-European from the same cultural background as all of Europe except the Basque, the Fins and the Hungarians.

[@cazwalt9013]

@@Carewolf because Indo-Europeans have long split into many groups plus Finns hungarians and the basque have been assimilated that they almost have nothing to do with their ancestors, they have become fully European

[@DarDarBinks1986]

I never bought into the whole model of "Europe" and "Asia" being separate continents. Geologically, it doesn't hold up. No sea or continental divide separates the two regions, hence the Eurasian tectonic plate.

[@xxsupersayen34xxnoe33]

that's because continents were NEVER based on geology and don't even start to pretend that the continental plates have ANYTHING to do with continents NO, the ancient greek didn't know about something that was first theorised in 20th century

[@berranari1]

@@xxsupersayen34xxnoe33 That's their problem. We are living in the 21st century. So the ancients Greeks should not be our problem. The continental plates have to do with the new definitions of continents. You are trying to go backwards, that's not how linear time works. BTW The Astronomical Union just redefined what the definition of a *planet* is. Pity the humans can't do the same here. Quite pathetic really. Did you know that when Ceres was discovered it was a planet, then it was redefined as an asteroid, now it is called a *dwarf planet*. Things change.

[@berranari1]

Yeah, you are one of the smart ones who applied their own thinking to the situation.

[@xxsupersayen34xxnoe33]

@@berranari1 bro, please stop trying to give me essays in English. It's clear that's not your first language and I can't deal with something that's both poorly argumented and poorly written

[@xxsupersayen34xxnoe33]

@@berranari1 wait, it's been an hour since the last time you wrote me something, have you really wasted 1 hour of your life argumenting about something that doesn't matter in the slightest in an unreadable broken English?

[@alvarogonzalezgambini7598]

Continents divisions predates any scientific study on tectonic plackets. So for the greeks they lived in Europe. Same happens with America which is one large continente because for the Spanish who discovered and conquered, it simply was one big new continent simply because there were no scientific studies that could debate otherwise.