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How Many Continents Are There? You May Not Like the Answers.

How Many Continents Are There? You May Not Like the Answers.

The New York Times
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 2:32 PM GMT

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school.

Your kids may have come home from school singing this infectious ditty, or another like it. But are there really seven continents?

Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe are connected. They are often called Eurasia for that reason. The divide is pretty arbitrary, more culturally than scientifically defined. So, is it fair to say that there are actually only six continents?

That is just the first slippery step on a well-oiled slope. What about North America and Asia?

They are connected by the Bering Sea Shelf, once dry land crossed by humans and flooded only in the geologically recent past. Technically speaking, that makes Asia, North America and Europe all one continent. Does that mean there are only five?

Other experts contend that five, six and seven are wrong and argue in favor of eight continents. There are even those who go as far as to say there are only two.

Hiding within the simplicity of the song, there is an illusion of general agreement about the number of continents.

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