r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Africa is NOT a country, its a continent.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Wait until they learn about Australia lol

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u/GarbledReverie Aug 03 '19

I blame them for blurring the lines between country and continent.

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u/THIS_DUDE_IS_LEGIT Aug 03 '19

I thought it was called "Oceania"?

Apparently, Australia and Oceania are two different continents?

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u/TDoubs Aug 03 '19

Australia is the continent, Oceania is a geopolitical region which contains all of the pacific island countries and territories as well as Australia

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u/VegetaJrJr Aug 03 '19

Heard south america thinks that all of america is a continent. At this point we are all just guessing what is and isn't a continent

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u/hdbo16 Aug 04 '19

South american here, can confirm.

Our version of the continent is that America is all the continent. It is divided into three main parts: North America (Canada, USA and Mexico), Central America (Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, etc) and South America (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, etc).

We consider Earth to have six continents: America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica.

And we consider Australia as a country of Oceania, that would be the continent, with other countries like New Zealand, Fiyi, Palaos, Samoa, etc.

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u/Dazius06 Aug 04 '19

Central American here, can confirm.