Europe is a peninsula sticking out of a larger continent surrounded by water on 3 sides and by mountains on the 4th side. Italy is a peninsula sticking out of a larger continent surrounded by water on 3 sides and by mountains on the 4th side. So why is Europe a continent but Italy is not? Same with Spain.
tectonic plates.
it’s almost as though the term “continent” is not exclusively defined in terms of geography and a number of other factors play into it too
like sure europe is geographically part of eurasia (hence the existence of that term), but the vast swathes of near-impassable territory between european russia and asian russia make the geographic distinction between “europe” and “asia” a useful one in most contexts
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The great continent of Sardinia
michigan is a continent
