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What number of Continents Are There?

The response is, sadly, not especially clear.

You could believe that this is a sufficiently basic inquiry. There are seven Continents, isn't that so? All things considered, this is shown in the American state funded educational system. Understudies in the US learn from the beginning that World's seven Continents include:

Asia
Africa
Europe
North America
South America
Australia (Oceania)
Antarctica

But this is definitely not an overall agreement through out the world. The quantity of Continents, it appears, relies upon who you ask.

The Continent Debate
The response might have appeared to be clear in grade school, however in truth, there is no single, conclusive method for characterizing a continent. On the off chance that we're going by unadulterated geology, we could take a gander at structural plates, persistent bodies of land, or regular lines — however these variables frequently neglect to offer us an unmistakable response. Thusly, it isn't too uncommon to see Earth's bodies of land split in manners that vary from the seven-continents model.

In Europe and Latin America, individuals are many times shown there are just six continents, joining North and South America into essentially "America." Others combine Europe and Asia into Eurasia. Europe and Asia share a colossal land scope, with the Ural Mountains frequently refered to as an erratic "limit." In the mean time, social and verifiable qualifications separate Europe and Asia in most Western training.

Geologist Valentin Rime decreases the quantity of continents significantly further: "There are fundamentally just two significant continents," he said. "Antarctica and all the other things, since South America is associated with North America through Panama, North America is associated with Asia through the Bering Strait, and Asia is associated with Europe, Africa and Australia through the Urals, the Sinai, and Indonesia, respectively."

Some, then again, really list eight mainlands. This is because of the 2017 revelation of Zealandia, a little and largely underwater continent in the Southern Hemisphere (in the event that you've at any point been to New Zealand, you've been to Zealandia).

The reality: In the same way as other different parts of our lives, continent counting simply relies upon point of view. Yet, that presumably won't assist you with picking the right response on a geography test, go by what you have been taught by your teacher.