Redefining Continents

The concepts of continents have confused people from their very beginning. Today I try to see if I can do any better at dividing the world up into manageable units.

Of course there are a lot of other ways to do this, so let me know your ideas in the comments!

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[pynical]

I will never understand why it is so hard to display New Zealand on a map.

[wrusselrani]

It disturbs me that you didn't rescale Greenland when you moved it down.

[skua]

The message at 3:37:

"You could argue that Antarctica is also a single region. While this is a fair argument to make, I'd counter by saying Antarctica is significantly broken up by the Transantarctic mountain range and at the very least create 2 different regions, glacier and mountains."

[cactuskaktus]

“A region can’t be a continent”
Antarctica: *nervous sweating*

[nauticalcreations]

The Blinking Text that was at 3:37:


"You could argue that Antarctica is also a single region. While that is a fair argument to make, I'd counter by saying Antarctica is Significantly broken up by the Transantarctic mountain range and at the very least 2 distinct regions, glaciers and mountains."


Hope that helped.

[metadragon]

Atlas Pro: “Centimeters, which are the smallest”
Millimeters: *wat*

[juandiegoprado]

“I teach geography for a living”

1 min later

“Europe is East of Russia”

[Lawfair]

Shouldn't the same standard be applied to all the landmasses? Why not use mountains to subdivide that Americas and Africa as well?

[royaltek]

the amount of times he said that the EU is east of Russia is astonishing

[supremelordoftheauspicious]

Pretty sure Herodotus is more celebrated for history rather than geography, Father of geograohy would be eratosthenes

[jet-eweg]

Continents starting and ending in "a" :
Europians: "hMmMmMmMmMM"

[simonbennett]

"Try describing the European Union without mentioning a continent."


A union on the European Peninsula

[e]

10:13 it's not the mountains that kept people away, but the harsh climate of Siberia.
Just like the Sahara has historically been a barrier to human expansion to and from sub Saharan Africa.

[Zmax]

I thought it was obvious we've got three continents.
Land, Space, and Atlantis.

[thepubgguy]

"This keeps the trend of every continent name starting and ending with an A."
Europe : Am i a joke to you?

[fomalhaut_the_great]

"Kilometers, which are the biggest.."
The almighty yottameter has a bone to pick with you, friend.

[redhidinghood]

I think the "achaemenid" and anarabian continents should be one. They seem kinda too small on their own (especially when you factor in the population) to be continents

[VanessaFlyhight]

Let's split up the Eurasia by the mountains that were historically difficult for humans to get past! But also let's just ignore all the other mountains that did the same thing around the world

[CrisBD]

Well.. I think Oceania and the Caribbean did not like this video :(

[SeanPAllen]

11:42 "This keeps the trend of continent names that both begin and end with the letter 'A'"
Oh, like Europe?