If you were asked what continent the UK was in...

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would you think there was something wrong with the question? I would presume, the UK is in Europe, but it is an island, not a continent?

DS's homework also assumes that "Oceania" is a continent - I always assumed that Australia was the continent, Oceania was the region.

Am I just old-fashioned???

I just asked DH how many continents he thought there were and he said "Everything apart from a, e, i, o and u". In his defence I do have a heavy cold.....

According to Wikipedia Latin America follows the single American continent theory. Mexico is a part of North America, with the US and Canada.

Oceania!

Sounds like a Disney film.

Europe which we're in
Asia
Africa
Australia
America

I only went to school in the 80's...

In the US we're taught 7.

North America (Mexico, Canada, and us)
South America
Asia
Africa
Australia
Antarctica
Europe

At least we were a decade ago when I was in school...

Mexico is part of the continent of North America, together with Canada and the US. Everything south of that is South America.

The Arctic is not a continent because it is not a land mass.

Austalasia/ Oceania are the same thing and include or exclude Antarctica depending on whether you say there are 5 or 7 continents.

Wow - schools actually taught that there was a continent called America?

Latin America is Mexico and South America (basically all the spanish (and portugese) speaking countries.

You can cut the Americas in quite a few different ways - geographical, political, ethnic.

I thought the UK was not part of the continent of Europe because a continent is one land mass, and the UK is a collection of islands. OF course politically the UK is part of Europe.

This is why we talk about continental Europe as being separate from the UK.

Oceania/Australasia we were taught is a politcal area made up of the countries in the Southern Pacific region. Australia, NZ, Papua New Guinea, etc

I think Australasia has been phased out as it only includes the Australian and Asian communities (could be wrong) and did not include Islanders etc

Also taught as a child 5 continents.
Australia
Europe
Asia
America
Africa
They all start and finish with the same letter.

I think MathAnxiety has it - it's the continental plates - or something like that.

I was taught

Europe
Asia
North America
South America
Antarctica
Australasia

which is 6? No that can't be right I'm sure it was 7 I learnt at school in the 80's and 90's?

• just realised my mistake I missed Africa out

What the National Geographic has to say about it all.

'Greenland, for example, is politically part of Europe but belongs geographically to North America,'

is Greenland really part of Europe?

politically speaking I' sure it is - at least that's what I was taught at school as well

although looking at Wiki (I know I know I know - but of a jump from NG to Wiki) it's quite loose ties these days here

and the BBC "country profile" on it (probably a little more reliable than Wiki...........but then I'm not having a good morning missing Africa out of the list of continents )

I'm learning a lot about Greenland! I knew it had ties with Denmark, I didn't realise how strong.

Uk is in Europe, Don't know about Australia being in Oceania though

Greenland is politically part of Europe because up to recently or maybe even now it was/ is governed by Denmark.

'Latin America' is a cultural area, while 'South America' is a geological area.