What are Continents?

What are continents and how many are there?
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[M Gerlach]

And the blatant 1984 reference at 0:49

[Charles Jenkins]

Since I was young as shit I wondered what made a continent......

[Le Lysergide]

America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Antarctica and Oceania (Australia, NZ, n other islands..)

[Sapphire Love]

i want a million continents :D

[David Perez]

Everyone's a continent! *throws trophies everywhere*

[Sando vArt]

US Americans is the best term to refer to the inhabitants of U.S.A

[Jim Cullen]

Actually, a 2:1 ratio would mean more than 66.667% land.

[Pablo Vergara Barrios]

It's not COLUMBIA! It's COLOMBIA! And Panamá were part of Colombia before!

[R. Armstrong]

AUSTRALIA IS JUST PART OF ASIA

[Sweetn Sour]

how many contentints do whowant there to be? 42

[atomfullerene]

The main problem with this is the proposed definition "Large landmasses seperated from each other by oceans". This is not what continent meant when the word originated. Consider the three continents known to the original namers...the Greeks. They knew that Europe, Asia, and Africa were all connected by land. In fact, continent originally meant "large landmass partly separate from another by water, but connected by land as well"

[Miloš Mijić]

TWO CONTINENTS, AUSTRALIA IS A BIG ISLAND. AMERICA + EUROASIAFRO