@Erik Seville Australia/Oceania is a continent consisting of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and many many islands such as Solomon Islands and Tonga
I grew up in Soviet Union and we learned that there are 6 continents but also 6 parts of the world. If we put the Americas together, we separated Europe and Asia. When we put Europe and Asia together as in Eurasia, we separated the Americas into north and south. Either way, the number 6 remained constant.
1:05 It's not the Brazilian rainforests that stop you walking the length of the Americas. It's something much closer to the Panama Canal: the Darién Gap, a dense swampy forest in the southern part of Panama and northern Colombia which is the only gap in the Pan-American Highway. You don't even need to enter Brazil to traverse the Americas.
@@OtavioBezerra397 The video specifically says "Brazilian rainforest": I provided the time-code. And, yes, I'm well aware that the Amazon rainforest extends beyond Brazil. You can still walk around it, unlike the Darién Gap.
In France, we say: -Europe -Asia -Africa -America (that you can cut in North and South btw, both versions are ok) -Oceania (we don't say Australia because Australia is the country, while Oceania contains Australia + all the other landmasses spreaded through the pacific, like New Zealand and Papua-New Guinea) -Antartica
Confused with this thing for 5 years and decided to look for an answer with this video, turns out I realise that the answer is inside me all the time, thanks CGP...
You could take this even further. You could walk from the bottom of Africa to Asia which is Eurasia, (now Eurafrusia?) then walk to the very end of Russia. You could wait until it’s winter for the icebridge to appear and walk into Alaska, walk through Canada over to the end of Chile and now nearly every single continent is connected. 3 continents.
Ahh, my first CGP Grey video. My seventh grade history teacher had good taste, showing us this in class. Still here & enjoying the channel as a college student seven years later ^_^
In Austria I got taught that there were 5 continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and America - we don't give shit about Antarctica 😂 no claims, no gains
As an Asian, I always thought that Asia is too large to meaningfully describe someone from the continent, so I am fine with breaking it down further through cultural lines or whatever.
Grey has definitely evolved as a video maker and narrator though, I think his newer stuff manages to sound more natural while also more authoritative and dramatic.
Excellent video, thank you! . Was going over schoolwork with the kids about continents and we ran into a lot of these same issues/questions you brought up.
In Norway we have 2 different terms for continents, one called “verdensdel” or world part in english, where Europe, Asia, north- and South-America, Australia and Antarctica are included . We also just have “kontinenter” aka continents where we include Eurasia, America, Africa, Australia and Antarctica
@@adne4336 Well, it would make a lot more sense to treat America as a single _verdensdel_ ... ...And given that you guys include Eurasia in the _"kontinenter"_ category and not Eurafrasia (despite the fact that Africa is connected to Eurasia as much as the Americas are binded together), I assume that you're basing yourselves on physical geography, so it would be a little bit more logical if you followed the model that Grey showed at the last second, i.e. Africa N. America S. America Antarctica Australia Eurasia And in regards to the _"verdensdel"_ category, change "Australia" for "Oceania". That's pretty much how we do it in France except they don't tell you in class, I had to find out about that on my own whilst checking a dictionary.
We have the same system in Belgium in Dutch, the only difference being that Australia is called Oceania. Although almost everybody calls the world parts continents
The same in Russia, except that the category of continents separates North and South America, while the category of world parts does not. Also, parts of the world is a literal translation of “части света” which is quite interesting in my opinion.
I was just directed to this video from a Duolingo discussion for the sentence "Ĉu Aŭstralio estas kontinento?" Mi ne konas sufiĉe por skrbi tio komento.
I love how seven years later the comments are still FULL of people going "Uhh, it's obviously [arbitrary number they learned at school]" without explaining why Like did they even watch the damn video.
My elementary school life was kinda crazy, and I studied in a russian school, a US school, and an argentinian school. And a couple of educational videos too. I've got 3 different answers: 5, 6, 7. There are arguments about distinguishing between North and South Americas, Europe and Asia, and I've even met some people who don't consider Antartica a country. So anyway, this is nuts
I love this channel, it truly does a great job at informing in a funny, easy to understand and useful way, side note on the Teddy Roosevelt joke it’s Colombia, not Columbia
It's not the Brazilian rain forest what stops you from walking from Alaska to Cape Horn. It's the mountainous rain forest in the Darién Gap, in Panama.
In skandinavia we have “world parts” which is Europe, Oceania, South America, Northern America, Africa and Antarctica whilst continents are Eurasia, Oceania, America (some use both north and south while some don’t), Africa and Antarctica
William Malone yes, Pangea was actually the last supercontinent. And in millions of years there will be another supercontinent with the boring name Pangea Ultima.
Here in Brazil is teached that are 8 continents: 1. North America 2. Central America 3. South America 4. Africa 5. Europe 6. Asia 7. Antarctica 8. Oceania (not just Australia) Edit: Some teachers confound Regions with Continents. Other teachers may say that America is a single continent and it's OK.
8 continents? I'm from Brazil too, but I learned there are 6 continents Europe Asia Africa Oceania Antarctica America (subdivide in three regions: North America, Central America and South America, but the continent is America).
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In my opinion, you have to disregard the little gaps because most people consider close islands to be part of continents. Therefore, through a chain of islands, Afro-Eurasia (the actual term for those three) also contains Australia. Also, you disregard the gap between Russia and North America, meaning you have 2 continents: Antarctica and Amerieurasiacastralia.
2:06 technically Antarctica is a singular land mass the fact that is an archipelago is because of glacial repression pushing down on the land take away the ice after a millennia or two it will have rose up as a singular mass
Bruno Giao oh believe me. the gaming community in the Philippines is WAAYYY worse. sometimes you will feel like playing with a spoiled 10 year old kid.
Here in the Arab world, we say there are 6 continents -Africa -Asia -Europe -Australia/Oceania (I was taught geography by 2 different teachers, who had different opinions about the existence of Oceania) -America -Antarctica
You could extend this problem to oceans. 4: The standard answer. Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic. 5: The water around Antarctica is sometimes regarded as a separate Southern Ocean. 3: Some people ignore the Arctic as its own ocean, as it's so small, and instead consider it part of the Atlantic. 1: Since all of the oceans interact and mix with each other anyway, why think of them as separate entities? All the world's oceanic waters together are collectively called the World Ocean--I know, real clever.
I personally would go with either one or three. The reality is that there is only one ocean. The so called World Ocean. But, I can agree on pointing out the various parts of it as the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. Really those three are just the _"we have to navigate around some big-ass island to keep going"_ parts.
Here in Argentina it is teached that there are six continents. 1. Africa 2. Oceania (Australia and New Zeland) 3. Europe 4. Asia 5. America (it divides in North-America, South-America and Central-America. But we don't see them as continents but as regions) 6.Antartica
There was a geography pub test i attended a few years back in Cambodia with other travellers and one of the people were deadset on 6 continents while the answer was 7 by the testmakers. He was out of line but he was right.
because i was playing minecraft and the video has a creeper sound near the end and i was in my house wich i thought i was going to have to rebuild because of the creeper
The reason that I heard that Europe and Asia are different continents is they are separated by a mountain range. This is also unhelpful, if that were true you could make boundaries on the Rocky Mountains, Himalayas, Andes, and many more.
The Urals are more of a practical boundary as they do effectively split Russia into an Asian and European half. I'm not sure if there really is that much difference between Perm and Yekaterinburg, but the Eastern half is mostly part of Russia because of the Empire's conquests and from my understanding is historically and culturally fairly split up from the West, if only because it's fairly inhospitable to major settlements. The Western part is where most of what we consider to be Russia... happened. It's certainly not the worst line I could think of
You can adapt the answer from the geologist, by saying that a contiguous piece of land that is a major tectonic plate is a continent. That makes an easy six, with North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica.
New definition for continent: A contiguous landmass over 1,000,000 sq.mi. (this means Greenland isn’t a continent) possibly separated from other landmasses by an ocean but not a river, and makes up a distinctive geographic feature such as a peninsula (like Europe), or divided by an isthmus with landmasses over one million sq.mi. on either side (like north/South America or Africa/Asia).
@@johnappleseed3428 yes keep them separate imagine telling someone your earoasian lmao 😂 let's keep it nice and easy 7 or 6 when combined north and south America there both america aren't they
YES I knew it wasn't consistent. Had an argument with my brother and dad about this. Told them how is Madagascar counted as an African country if they aren't connected. And my brother answered "they don't have to be connected directly , they belong to the same tectonic plate" and I said surely there must be more than 7 plates that have countries that belong to them but aren't defined as part of other continents " Thanks Grey
CGP Grey says "How many continents do you want there to be?" In my head, "I want there to be one super-massive continent with roughly 7 billion people on it."
these should be the continents. -north america -central america -south america -antartica -africa -europe -Arabia(Its cuturly different. -persia -India (its Super big) -asia -Indochina(siam) -Oceania
Best defintion (that doesnt make Australians qq) yet. Any number between 2 and 4 seems reasonable, 5-7 is just totally arbitrary. Either go with cultural zones (woooh, now Bavaria, Catalonia, Ireland and so on are a continent!) or large landmasses... hell, the landmasses thing seems a lot easier to me.
Going with landmasses mostly surrounded by water is fine by me. So you got Eurasia (not near enough ocean in between), Africa (the suez straight is very narrow compared to these landmasses) North America, South America (the Americas are so narrow there) Australia and Antarctica). 2 supercontinents and 2 continents are fine by me though, as long as the continents within Afro-Eurasia are Africa and Eurasia or perhaps Africa, Europe, Middle East, India and Asia.
I like the current definition, based on ease of travel, in North America. You would have a hard time traveling from Europe to Asia over land (thanks Ural mountains).
But the Himnalayas are higher and block alot of the paths out of india to the rest of Asia. Also if use the barrier arguement to split Eurasia you could also argue desert and tundra split continents, further dividing East Asia and Europe into 2 continents, but also f.e. splitting North Africa from Sub-Saharan Africa. Plus oceans frequently facilitate travel instead of hindering travel, making the Mediterranian 1 continent instead of the 3 continents the Greeks intended it to be. Speaking of the Greeks, it makes a lot of sense to have Europe separate from Asia when your world is confined to the Mediterranean and the black sea, and everything east of the strait of Turkey is Europe, everything east of it is Asia and the land so the south, across the Aegean sea and Mediterranean sea from Europe and across the Sinai peninsula from Asia is Africa.
Super continents: Americas, Afro-Eurasia. Continents: North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica. Subcontinents: India, Arabia, Indochinese Peninsula, Europe, Central America, Greenland
New definition of continent: parts of the earth starting with the letter A. America, Africa, Asia, Austrialia,Antarctica,.... What about Europ... *Albanian imperialist expansion intensifies*
Eurasia, Antarctica, Africa, Australia, N&S America makes most sense to me. But Afro-Eurasia is a bit much, the connection is too thin just like N&S America.
+ƐƐƐɐʎdnllɐ Australia is technically the correct name for the continent. The fact it is the name of a country aswell I think confuses some. In it's unique case, it is both.
+The reversed guy So you're saying if there was a country that owned all of North/South America just called America they wouldn't be separate continents any more? That's kinda stupid.
1:28 Africa and Eurasia are now connected by a container ship.
And now again there is water between them
Fact.
As an egyptian i will accept
I wonder if this comment is why this showed up in my recommended
Big brain
Absolutely lost it at Greenland’s “I
only geography students can relate
@Erik Seville I just call Australia and all the islands around it Oceania.
Also, who's this zopic and samuel?
@Erik Seville Australia/Oceania is a continent consisting of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and many many islands such as Solomon Islands and Tonga
The Mercator projection is so wrong that even though Greenland looks comparable to the US, the us is around 4.4 times larger
We should go back to just being Pangea. That must have been so much easier
+Greg. Sym. Mkay, just a few billion years, eh?
+Greg. Sym. itll happen in a few million years.
+Jason Martin *hundred million
Did anyone listen to the very last seconds!😂
+Greg. Sym. You mean Panem?
I grew up in Soviet Union and we learned that there are 6 continents but also 6 parts of the world. If we put the Americas together, we separated Europe and Asia. When we put Europe and Asia together as in Eurasia, we separated the Americas into north and south. Either way, the number 6 remained constant.
Wried
Would've thought the Soviets claim it as Ourasia.
Also In south america
its not eurasia
its OURasia *soviet anthem plays*
1:05 It's not the Brazilian rainforests that stop you walking the length of the Americas. It's something much closer to the Panama Canal: the Darién Gap, a dense swampy forest in the southern part of Panama and northern Colombia which is the only gap in the Pan-American Highway. You don't even need to enter Brazil to traverse the Americas.
YOU SPELLED COLOMBIA RIGHT I LOVE YOU
@@Camusfanclub ?
@@SenorGuina ohh
Those are technically part of the same forest system, but you are more technically correct so points to you anyway.
@@OtavioBezerra397 The video specifically says "Brazilian rainforest": I provided the time-code. And, yes, I'm well aware that the Amazon rainforest extends beyond Brazil. You can still walk around it, unlike the Darién Gap.
In France, we say:
-Europe
-Asia
-Africa
-America (that you can cut in North and South btw, both versions are ok)
-Oceania (we don't say Australia because Australia is the country, while Oceania contains Australia + all the other landmasses spreaded through the pacific, like New Zealand and Papua-New Guinea)
-Antartica
Australian are tought the same logic thank you so much for saying it for me.
@@lachlancullen5589 Haha you're welcome aussie friend! ^^
In Mexico we have 5 since we count Antarctica to be part of Oceania.
@@rafael9886 wait, what? XD
I was taught:
-North America
-South America
-Asia
-Europe
-Africa
-Australia
-Antarctica
I like the "Answers might require years of study and are given in terms of probability rather then certanity", it's honest.
There is no perfect answer to these types of questions.
I say nothing is a continent, just a fat island
0:47 Don't miss the 1984 reference. Loved it!
?
Was looking for this
Yes, you are very smart
1 Continent:
Afro-Eurasiaustraliamerictica
This is where we have a different term called a "world".
ElectricPyroclast The world also has oceans. Afro-Eurasiaustraliamerictica does not.
Suiseiseki Desu Well, there is the geographical world, and there's also the political world where the only thing involved is the land.
ElectricPyroclast
Oceans are a quite important part of the political world since they are used to transport oil and other goods.
Suiseiseki Desu Eh, true... "terrestrial political world", then?
Confused with this thing for 5 years and decided to look for an answer with this video, turns out I realise that the answer is inside me all the time, thanks CGP...
3:45
@@drewlomax7837 lmao
Nope, the answer was on RUclips the whole time.
B-b-but their all connected.
UNDER DA OCEAN
S T O P R I G H T W H E R E U A R E
He know to much! Catch him!
AFRO-EUASIAUSTALIANERITICA
Meliodas 1870 unda da sea
Unda da sea!
You could take this even further. You could walk from the bottom of Africa to Asia which is Eurasia, (now Eurafrusia?) then walk to the very end of Russia. You could wait until it’s winter for the icebridge to appear and walk into Alaska, walk through Canada over to the end of Chile and now nearly every single continent is connected. 3 continents.
Me: The earth is a spherical continent with water flooding most of the land
Fuck
I have been enlightened.
@@cdyn5480 :0
what was the point of putting "me:" at the start
Flat earthers: I’m gonna -ruin- this whole mans career
Remove the Antarctic ice he says; can't you see that we're trying?
TheMasonX no...
Yeah all that global warming isn’t enough
WE NEED MORE GLOBAL WARMING!!!
like who needs ice lol not me xD
We Need As Much Meltage To Melt antarctica
Sammieboy115 so eat more cow, they produce alot methane and co2
2:57 I love how Australia's plate is shaped like a heart. I live in Australia and that really satisfies me
You live in australia? Cool! Be careful with the 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 species of deadly spiders!
@@augustomoreira7441 I will.
@@ihatemice_elf Did you?
It’s not in the shape of a heart on real life…
@@errorsvoid5099 yeah it isn't
I just realised this was 11 years ago yet it looks so modern. Either this guy is absolutely insane at editing or time flies
"Either this guy is absolutely insane at editing or time flies" Both, TBH.
Me: So as many as I want?
CGP: Yes
Me: Ok let's say 9.
CGP: No.
8 with central america,the ninth?
@@Merluch Greenland
a german, trying to write something that sounds like the english number 9, would end up with the german word "nein" which literally translates to "no"
America, Afro-Eurasia, Antarctica, Austroasia
@@a.d.t.mapping I think you mean oceania
Ahh, my first CGP Grey video. My seventh grade history teacher had good taste, showing us this in class. Still here & enjoying the channel as a college student seven years later ^_^
In Austria I got taught that there were 5 continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and America - we don't give shit about Antarctica 😂 no claims, no gains
The International Olympic Committee wants to know your location.
weird, in germany we learned 7
And you seem also think that only one America exist
"No claims, no gains." 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I learned 7 north america,south america,africa,Europe,antartica,Asia and Australia
As an Asian, I always thought that Asia is too large to meaningfully describe someone from the continent, so I am fine with breaking it down further through cultural lines or whatever.
Which Asian are you? South Asian, East Asian. South-East Asian, Middle Eastern (Asian)
Yeah I personally prefer terms like Middle East, Subcontinent, ASEAN n East Asia.
E
@@the_last.satrap6064 what about central Asia?
@@aragon533 Just call them the T U R K L A N D S
3 Continents:
Afro-Eurasianarctica
America
Baffin Island
And pluto
too
You forgot Australasia
And Oceana
And New Jersey
Teacher: how many continents are there?
Me: how many do you want them to be?
69
@@schlimmbotg472 gottem
I’d like but... 69
Teacher: 7... wait you little shi-
69420
CGP Grey: How many continents do you want there to be?
Earth: Yes
ValleyoftheKings64 CPG?
@@anthjrive fixed it lol
Yes
Yes
Do you*
For a 10 year old video it’s actually really well made, I could easily believe it was made a week ago
Grey has definitely evolved as a video maker and narrator though, I think his newer stuff manages to sound more natural while also more authoritative and dramatic.
I had no idea it was ten years old!!
"How many continents be there? Well, how many do you want there to be?"
Reality can be whatever I want
*END GAME SPOILERS*
1 million is in reality
@@gurke640 r/wooosh
I want there to be one continent. Great America
r/unexpectedthanos
“culturally different” so I am a continent now
Holy crap
looks at likes
*NICE*
Depends how large you are.
@Daniel Shin I started a civilization in my room
Exactly.
The answer is simple.There are two.
1.) 'Murica
2.) the other places i guess
Correct
conlia NO!
@@alexturnerstan9000 conila YES!
conlia fuck you
conlia ‘the other places i guess’ that’s super disrespectful you don’t feel it because you’re american
Excellent video, thank you! .
Was going over schoolwork with the kids about continents and we ran into a lot of these same issues/questions you brought up.
In Norway we have 2 different terms for continents, one called “verdensdel” or world part in english, where Europe, Asia, north- and South-America, Australia and Antarctica are included . We also just have “kontinenter” aka continents where we include Eurasia, America, Africa, Australia and Antarctica
Shouldn't it be the reverse for America ?
@@quidam_surprise in which category
@@adne4336
Well, it would make a lot more sense to treat America as a single _verdensdel_ ...
...And given that you guys include Eurasia in the _"kontinenter"_ category and not Eurafrasia (despite the fact that Africa is connected to Eurasia as much as the Americas are binded together), I assume that you're basing yourselves on physical geography, so it would be a little bit more logical if you followed the model that Grey showed at the last second, i.e.
Africa
N. America
S. America
Antarctica
Australia
Eurasia
And in regards to the _"verdensdel"_ category, change "Australia" for "Oceania". That's pretty much how we do it in France except they don't tell you in class, I had to find out about that on my own whilst checking a dictionary.
We have the same system in Belgium in Dutch, the only difference being that Australia is called Oceania. Although almost everybody calls the world parts continents
The same in Russia, except that the category of continents separates North and South America, while the category of world parts does not.
Also, parts of the world is a literal translation of “части света” which is quite interesting in my opinion.
Just pay the weasel to gerrymander the earth into continents with roughly the same populations and number of countries!
Saluton esperanto friend! :D
This made me chuckle; thank you
vi estas tre amuza mia bona amiko
I was just directed to this video from a Duolingo discussion for the sentence "Ĉu Aŭstralio estas kontinento?"
Mi ne konas sufiĉe por skrbi tio komento.
Same XD
I love how seven years later the comments are still FULL of people going
"Uhh, it's obviously [arbitrary number they learned at school]"
without explaining why
Like did they even watch the damn video.
yoooo i didn't realize how long ago this was made XD i though it was made in 2017 or something not 2011 haha
Uhh, it’s obviously 69
No, 420
Name them
3:46
I just clocked I was six when this video was posted. Grey has been around forever.
My elementary school life was kinda crazy, and I studied in a russian school, a US school, and an argentinian school. And a couple of educational videos too. I've got 3 different answers: 5, 6, 7. There are arguments about distinguishing between North and South Americas, Europe and Asia, and I've even met some people who don't consider Antartica a country. So anyway, this is nuts
Did you mean Australia when you said Antarctica, or did you mean continent when you said country?
I think your elementary schools have driven you crazy. 😂
@@geewillikers918 I don't consider Antartica a continent
I was not prepared for the sentence "i have even met some people who do not consider antartica a country"
@@MijmerMopper Antarctica is never a country. 😂
I like that little "1984" joke at 00:50
Ohhh so that was that 🤔
I know
I had to google it because I was confused as fuck.
@@nikkilee3840 I don't get it
@@Aruesx in 1984 the countries are different and Eurasia is always at war with East Asia.
Edit: as far as I remember
1: Kanto
2:Johto
3:Sinnoh
4: Hoenn
5:Unova
6:Kalos
7:Alola
You forgot Louisiana
Roosevelt Louissaint isn't Alola an archipelago though?
Roosevelt Louissaint Yeah, because Hoenn is so 4th gen.
POKÉMON
Trivia: Kanto is also the name of one of the regions of Japan. Others might be too, not sure.
I love this channel, it truly does a great job at informing in a funny, easy to understand and useful way, side note on the Teddy Roosevelt joke it’s Colombia, not Columbia
It's not the Brazilian rain forest what stops you from walking from Alaska to Cape Horn. It's the mountainous rain forest in the Darién Gap, in Panama.
I'm today's old when I finally understood the 1984 Joke at 0:50.
Same!! I just realised that now!
Plz explain
@@Owen_loves_Butters it's about George Orwell's book 1984
I literally just finished that book last night. Great read! Kinda confusing but also a huge mindf**k
@@Owen_loves_Butters you dont need it. Just wait until your next book report.
I only clicked on this video because it had Australia with a crown
lmao
that's a good reason
Same lmao 😂
In skandinavia we have “world parts” which is Europe, Oceania, South America, Northern America, Africa and Antarctica whilst continents are Eurasia, Oceania, America (some use both north and south while some don’t), Africa and Antarctica
There is only one continent. Pangaea. Everyone else are just defectors.
Andrew Banks actually, there were more supercontinents before pangea for example Gondwana
pangea wasnt the first continent
@@ProjectNetoku ...
No
William Malone yes, Pangea was actually the last supercontinent. And in millions of years there will be another supercontinent with the boring name Pangea Ultima.
Andrew Banks cool
Here in Brazil is teached that are 8 continents:
1. North America
2. Central America
3. South America
4. Africa
5. Europe
6. Asia
7. Antarctica
8. Oceania (not just Australia)
Edit: Some teachers confound Regions with Continents. Other teachers may say that America is a single continent and it's OK.
I think the Oceania continent makes sense
Same here way the fuck up north in canada
I hate this
@Itz_Purplexed Yeah I agree that Oceania is a region, certainly not a continent.
8 continents? I'm from Brazil too, but I learned there are 6 continents
Europe
Asia
Africa
Oceania
Antarctica
America (subdivide in three regions: North America, Central America and South America, but the continent is America).
Me seeing the video: "what are continents?".
Me: *Clicks the video*
Me after seeing the video: (confused) "What are continents?".
Update on Among Us Triggered Video:
The script is ready to go and we were planning on filming with Carl and Connor tonight. Unfortunately, someone in Carl's family may have been exposed to Covid yesterday, so now there's a chance that Carl has it as well. We're gonna wait a couple weeks to film to be safe, which means this video will come out in December instead of this Saturday. I apologize for the delay, but it'll be worth it!
@@raymondha1897 ?
@@raymondha1897 did you copy and paste the wrong thing?
Id consider middle east and Asia different continents due to large cultural difference
@@raymondha1897 okay who are you supposed to be and why are you here?
I love the creeper ignition and explosion sound.
2:57 i heart Australia too.
GachaKitten ha that’s funny
Culturally divided huh then that means North Korea is a continent
Why? Korean is just imperial japanese and communist china.
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STOP
lol 😂
@@BGI_guy they are maple junkies
Im Famouse boy and ima good hacker
I love how Honshu says *"Rule 34 Island"*
and the video is made in 2011 lmao
@@niksy80 Hits with so much meme nostalagia.
I don't get it and I'm scared
@syabill how... scared?
@@niksy80 yes, rule34 wasn't invented yesterday, in fact it has been existing since the start of the internet.
In my opinion, you have to disregard the little gaps because most people consider close islands to be part of continents. Therefore, through a chain of islands, Afro-Eurasia (the actual term for those three) also contains Australia. Also, you disregard the gap between Russia and North America, meaning you have 2 continents: Antarctica and Amerieurasiacastralia.
There Are Three:
*_Oceania_*
*_Eurasia_*
*_Eastasia_*
1984.
No!
There is just Oceania and the rest are enemies.
Don't let them fool you comrade!!
We have always been at war with Eurasia
@@Kyle1227 and Eurasia has always been at war with Eastasia
@@Martinxo51 And we have always been at war with Eastasia.
“7 continents”
Zealandia: There is another
Lol
Eh I would consider it a part of oceania. Imo it ain’t big enough to be a continent. It’s twice as small as Australia
3:29 where is NZ??? 👀
Why do everyone forget NZ on maps :(
lemuria: hahahaha you small Zealandia
Greater Adria and Doggerland: There is another
Continents by size (tectonically defined):
1. Eurasia
2. North America
3. South America
4. Antarctica
5. Africa
6. Australia
7. India
8. Arabia
9. The Caribbean
10. The Philippines
11. Nazca
13. Scotia
14. Somalia
15. Carolinia
16. Burma
17. New Heberdinesia
18. Lwandle
19. Madagascar
20. Rovuma
21. Seychellesia
22. Shetlandia
23. South Sandwichania
24. Capricornia
25. Futuna
26. Kermadecia
27. Maokea
28. Tonga
29. Niuafo’oua
30. Woodlarkia
31. Panama
32. Gonâve
33. Riverania
34. Adriatica
35. Anatolia
36. Agaea
37. Amuria
38. Bandania
39. Iberia
40. Iran
41. Molucca
42. Halmahera
43. Sainghea
44. Okinawa
45. Timor
46. Tisza
47. Sundaia
48. Pelsonia
49. Yangtzea
50. Coibana
51. Malpelonia
52. Greenland
53. Ohktosk
54. Juan De Fucania
55. Exploraniana
56. Gorda
57. Reef Balmoralia
58. Birdsheadistan
59. Conwania Reef
60. Easteria
61. Galapagosia
62. Juan Fernandezia
63. Kula
64. Manusia
65. New Hebridesia
66. North Bismarckia
67. South Bismarckia
68. North Galapagosia
69. Sea of Solomonia
70. Marianaland
71. Philippines (II)
72. Altiplano
73. Falklandia
74. North Andesia
Why are the countries
This brings up the "How Many Countries Are There?" topic.
New Zealand
woah
ok so is egypt african or Arabian😂
0:49 I didn't get the joke for a long time, but I finally got to 1984 and understand it now. 🎉
2:06 technically Antarctica is a singular land mass the fact that is an archipelago is because of glacial repression pushing down on the land take away the ice after a millennia or two it will have rose up as a singular mass
That anoyed me
@@deltared5454 No. Really not.
I thought I heard that it would be 3 huge island with a bunch of small island here and there
THE SOUTH (POLE) WILL RISE AGAIN
Ok, call me in a few millennia after we melt all the ice and it has time to come back up. Until then, an archipelago is not a continent
i love how you described brazil as a deadly poisonous forest LOL
Bruno Giao oh believe me. the gaming community in the Philippines is WAAYYY worse. sometimes you will feel like playing with a spoiled 10 year old kid.
Bruno Giao well that's true. lol
HUEHUEHUE
MrBroxMan same
You're rude.
"Remove the ice sheet that covers Antarctica..."
We're trying.
*GOBAL WARMING*
@@Ryfried **global warming.
why you stealing a comment from 2 years ago
@@stan3rdgenkpop Because we're still trying?
@@tris592 goslr warming
Here in the Arab world, we say there are 6 continents
-Africa
-Asia
-Europe
-Australia/Oceania (I was taught geography by 2 different teachers, who had different opinions about the existence of Oceania)
-America
-Antarctica
You could extend this problem to oceans.
4: The standard answer. Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic.
5: The water around Antarctica is sometimes regarded as a separate Southern Ocean.
3: Some people ignore the Arctic as its own ocean, as it's so small, and instead consider it part of the Atlantic.
1: Since all of the oceans interact and mix with each other anyway, why think of them as separate entities? All the world's oceanic waters together are collectively called the World Ocean--I know, real clever.
Cameron Ballard Panthalassa. Nuff said
James Vo Alaska is cold as fuck and Tijuana is a sweltering hell hole and yet they are both considered "North America"
THERE IS ONE OCEAN, around the continents. The oceans are too similar to divide them.
I personally would go with either one or three. The reality is that there is only one ocean. The so called World Ocean. But, I can agree on pointing out the various parts of it as the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. Really those three are just the _"we have to navigate around some big-ass island to keep going"_ parts.
Cameron Ballard the oceans have different cultures ;))
How many continents are there, well as many as you want
Me: I’m about to make you regret that decision
Yakkos world song starts playing
I would say middle east is a continent since there is a huge cultural differnce between asian and european culture.
UNITED STATES, CANANDA, MEXICO, PANAMA,
, JAMICA, PERU ,REPUBLIC DOMINA, CUBA, CARIBEAN (NOT A COUNTRY ) , GREENLAND, EL SALVADOR TOO
@@abolfazl8264 Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela, Honduras, Guyana and still.
@@dead.dummy678 Guatemala,Bolivia,then Argentina,and dequado,Chile,brazil
@@the-lag-gamerita5446 Costa Rica Belize Nicaragua Bermuda Bahamas Tobago San Juan, Paraguay Uruguay Suriname and French Guyana Barbados and Guaam
*Welcome to the Future:*
1.) Mercury
2.) Venus
3.) Earth
4.) Mars
5.) Ceres
6.) Jupiter
7.) Saturn
8.) Neptune
9.) Uranus
10.) Pluto
11.) Eris
12.) Makemake
13.) Haumea
14.) Sedna
15.) 2002 MS4
16.) 2007 OR10
17.) Quaoar
18.) Salacia
19.) Orcus
Upcycle Electronics 20. NGC 4414
Ceres but no Juno or hesta? Only 9 planets from the Kuiper belt, home to hundreds of Little Rock’s?
lets just make every artificial satellite a moon and earth has the most moons in the solar system.
Honestly I like the 4 continent view because it makes the most logical sense
Continents:
Mustard
Ketchup.
Anyone?
No?
Kill me.
condiments lol
Don't forget about relish!
+Rain Verrev and onion
james lafayette And the burger.
*Condiments or *Contents
Here in Argentina it is teached that there are six continents.
1. Africa
2. Oceania (Australia and New Zeland)
3. Europe
4. Asia
5. America (it divides in North-America, South-America and Central-America. But we don't see them as continents but as regions)
6.Antartica
In Brazil, Australia is just a part of the continent Oceania.
Lol I always tell people Australia isn't a continent
Tom Mate Europe isn't a continent, it's a region
I come from the land down under
It's what I always learned. (UK here.)
I also heard it called Australasia.
here in Australia Brazil can fuck off
There was a geography pub test i attended a few years back in Cambodia with other travellers and one of the people were deadset on 6 continents while the answer was 7 by the testmakers. He was out of line but he was right.
0:50 lol nice reference to 1984 there
I noticed that too!
Though crime
I liked that pandemic 2 reference in there.
oh my god thout I was the only one
simsom4343 2:21
Are you talking about at 0:48? Because that is most definitely not a pandemic reference. Or did you mean some other point in the video?
Tango Down not at that point obviously, it's when a bubble from Madagascar says: "Shut down everything!"
simsom4343 Oh, I didn't catch that.
i was playing minecraft while listening to this and you scared the shit out of me thanks alot
This makes no sense, if you are listening to the video why were you scared?
because i was playing minecraft and the video has a creeper sound near the end and i was in my house wich i thought i was going to have to rebuild because of the creeper
build w/ obsidian maaannneeeeeeeeeeeee
obby is UGLY
Roblax beter
The reason that I heard that Europe and Asia are different continents is they are separated by a mountain range. This is also unhelpful, if that were true you could make boundaries on the Rocky Mountains, Himalayas, Andes, and many more.
The Urals are more of a practical boundary as they do effectively split Russia into an Asian and European half. I'm not sure if there really is that much difference between Perm and Yekaterinburg, but the Eastern half is mostly part of Russia because of the Empire's conquests and from my understanding is historically and culturally fairly split up from the West, if only because it's fairly inhospitable to major settlements. The Western part is where most of what we consider to be Russia... happened. It's certainly not the worst line I could think of
You can adapt the answer from the geologist, by saying that a contiguous piece of land that is a major tectonic plate is a continent. That makes an easy six, with North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica.
New definition for continent:
A contiguous landmass over 1,000,000 sq.mi. (this means Greenland isn’t a continent) possibly separated from other landmasses by an ocean but not a river, and makes up a distinctive geographic feature such as a peninsula (like Europe), or divided by an isthmus with landmasses over one million sq.mi. on either side (like north/South America or Africa/Asia).
Joshua Salem
But then Europe and Asia are the same continent...?
And the Antarctic problem?
why 100,000,000 sq mi?
@@azalde614 really, i don't think cultural differences are enough to separate the Americas, Eurasia maybe, but not america
this is a bad definition. a definition can't be accurate while being so broad as to say "possibly".
Honshu: the rule 34 island
So true.
I know what Rule 34 is but not how it applies to Honshu. What's the correlation?
@@matthewmagda4971 it is the largest island of Japan, the homeland of anime and, uh, well, hentai
@@neyte7313 I see. Maybe they could do a History of Anime post. Thanks for the clarification!!
i just came back to this video after years and found out i had this video disliked just because of that lame af joke. honestly cant blame past me
I'm on a old CGP Grey video binge
Oh god you’ve been making awesome videos for 8 years- I’m surprised that you’ve kept up the amazing work for so long!
I was taught that there are 6 continents; America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica
well i just think it makes 0 sense to keep europe,asia and africa seperate but unify north and south america. i was taught 7
@@johnappleseed3428 yes keep them separate imagine telling someone your earoasian lmao 😂 let's keep it nice and easy 7 or 6 when combined north and south America there both america aren't they
Well you were tought wrong.
@@Steve-zc9ht still makes no sense tho
@tsunami of the tsunami lol
I think the tectonic plate answer is the most fair
YES I knew it wasn't consistent. Had an argument with my brother and dad about this. Told them how is Madagascar counted as an African country if they aren't connected. And my brother answered "they don't have to be connected directly , they belong to the same tectonic plate" and I said surely there must be more than 7 plates that have countries that belong to them but aren't defined as part of other continents "
Thanks Grey
"Real studying - not social sciences studying" ❤️
String agreement from a social science ba!
The geologist in me is sad for the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate not getting a mention :(
And philippines tectonic plate :(
I died at "rule 34 island"
New Guinea, Borneo, Madagascar *(Shut. Down. Everything.),* Baffin Island, Sumatra and Honshu (Rule 34 Island)
3:06 that glare of Hawaii is hilarious
CGP Grey says "How many continents do you want there to be?"
In my head, "I want there to be one super-massive continent with roughly 7 billion people on it."
I want exactly 49 continents in the world.
u mean 69 hehe
Federico Cota Reyes to piss people off
RUclips University yeah, it gets confusing
RUclips University I just ruined 49 likes
I WANT 200 CONTINENTS
0:45 great sneak, however I heard my friend committing a thought crime saying that those places have not been around forever
Games lane Wasn’t it four years ago that Eastasia was with Eurasia, wait... no... wait...
@@justsomemainer1384 eastasia is our ally. We have always been at war with eurasia
A Classic i come back to every year.
"Shut down everything"
That earned my sub right there. Damn madagascar and their ability to avoid mass pandemics.
So you have also experienced the troubles of Plague Inc....
+Stupid Elephant let's not forget the Caribbean, Greenland and Iceland
+Stupid Elephant No, no no. Madagascar= Pandemic. Greenland=Plague Inc.
+Boden Ross nailed it.
+Uncreative Name Ugh, yes. Greenland. The cold countries always get me, island or not.
Continents:
dirt
Brb gonna sell some continents on ebay
these should be the continents.
-north america
-central america
-south america
-antartica
-africa
-europe
-Arabia(Its cuturly different.
-persia
-India (its Super big)
-asia
-Indochina(siam)
-Oceania
@@yellowrobloxian37-gaming50 arabia and india no. China is bigger than india ur indian arent u?
@@n.m.8802 Central America as a continent is a stupid idea. And you could fuse Persia and Arabia. Also, Indochina? Yeah, no.
Continents:
1. Earth.
But the earth isn't a large landmass separated by a large body of water
Bianca Doodles It's a continent.
EARTH IS MY CITY
TangguhNI no it's a food
It's us. no, its a drink, there is alot of water that you can drink on it
I watched these videos when I was 10-11 and only now did I just get the 1984 reference with Eurasia
2 supercontinents and 2 continents: America and Afro-Eurasia; Antarctica and Oceania
Best defintion (that doesnt make Australians qq) yet.
Any number between 2 and 4 seems reasonable, 5-7 is just totally arbitrary.
Either go with cultural zones (woooh, now Bavaria, Catalonia, Ireland and so on are a continent!) or large landmasses... hell, the landmasses thing seems a lot easier to me.
Going with landmasses mostly surrounded by water is fine by me. So you got Eurasia (not near enough ocean in between), Africa (the suez straight is very narrow compared to these landmasses) North America, South America (the Americas are so narrow there) Australia and Antarctica).
2 supercontinents and 2 continents are fine by me though, as long as the continents within Afro-Eurasia are Africa and Eurasia or perhaps Africa, Europe, Middle East, India and Asia.
I like the current definition, based on ease of travel, in North America. You would have a hard time traveling from Europe to Asia over land (thanks Ural mountains).
But the Himnalayas are higher and block alot of the paths out of india to the rest of Asia.
Also if use the barrier arguement to split Eurasia you could also argue desert and tundra split continents, further dividing East Asia and Europe into 2 continents, but also f.e. splitting North Africa from Sub-Saharan Africa. Plus oceans frequently facilitate travel instead of hindering travel, making the Mediterranian 1 continent instead of the 3 continents the Greeks intended it to be.
Speaking of the Greeks, it makes a lot of sense to have Europe separate from Asia when your world is confined to the Mediterranean and the black sea, and everything east of the strait of Turkey is Europe, everything east of it is Asia and the land so the south, across the Aegean sea and Mediterranean sea from Europe and across the Sinai peninsula from Asia is Africa.
Super continents: Americas, Afro-Eurasia.
Continents: North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica.
Subcontinents: India, Arabia, Indochinese Peninsula, Europe, Central America, Greenland
"Do any of you actually know what 'incontinent' means?"- Lisa Simpson
New definition of continent: parts of the earth starting with the letter A.
America, Africa, Asia, Austrialia,Antarctica,....
What about Europ...
*Albanian imperialist expansion intensifies*
Can we get an f in the chat for Oceania
I dont consider Europe a continent. Its the Westside of Asia.
@Wpz Rpd i dont consider Europe and Asia a continent its the uppper side of the middle east
@@xdskiller3509 middle is a..
Part of....
> real studying, not humanities studying
Watching Grey’s progression from an edgy stem boi into a historian has been truly fascinating
Continents:
Afroeurasia
America
Antarctica is ice on an archipelago
Australia is a huge island
@Samuel Wang Australia is not a continent, or is a country part of the continent of Oceania.
Nigo Maramag depends on where you live, in Brazil and some states of America recognize it as a continent
Yes
@@IsaacMeade641 u mean australasia
I prefer calling it Eurasfrica
Well technically if you drain the oceans you only have 1 continent.
Well, actually you have zero. You just have a lump of dirt floating in a void
Where would you put the water, your mom's bath tub?
@@jacktaylor8195 Yee.
Geologists would disagree
2:24
I've watched this multiple times before, but never noticed Honshu having the subtitle "Rule 34 Island"
Houdini111 I only just noticed the 1984 refferences
Thanks cgp for telling me about how pluto is a planet
1:40 “and cgp grey wept, for there were no more continents to more”
He said: "no more continentes to merge".
Eurasia, Antarctica, Africa, Australia, N&S America makes most sense to me. But Afro-Eurasia is a bit much, the connection is too thin just like N&S America.
But why Australia? Australia is a country.
Oceania is never used round these parts, when people think of the continent they say Australia. it's a regional thing
+ƐƐƐɐʎdnllɐ Australia is technically the correct name for the continent. The fact it is the name of a country aswell I think confuses some. In it's unique case, it is both.
+The reversed guy So you're saying if there was a country that owned all of North/South America just called America they wouldn't be separate continents any more? That's kinda stupid.
+ջ͙̯͇̝ implying europe and asia have similar cultures
Bro I just rewatched this years later and I finally got the joke at 0:45 after reading 1984 lol
same haha
I don’t get it, explain ?😭
@@joshuay.4224 In the book "nineteen eighty four" by george orwell there are three dystopias constantly at war with eachother.
11 years ago? I'm surprised by how consistent the format of these videos has remained.
same