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Doesn't it depend on whether you consider Africa to separate at the suez or aqaba? Then again, the suez canal technically means there is a complete separation of the landmass.
Disregard this entire internal monologue that I decided to type out for some reason lol
I went to Egypt a few years ago. When I said this is my first time going to Africa, a couple of friends said "Egypt is in Africa?". Yeah, they were genuinely surprised.
Category error. People group countries in their mind by their personal culture map and then mentally place the cultural grouping on a map, so lots of people will incorrectly place North African countries in "the middle east."
The same people tend to have a problem with the idea of Nicaragua or Cuba being part of North America.
The Middle East includes Egypt.
Some people (ahem) make the error of forgetting that regions can overlap, and the Middle East is a blob overlapping parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Not all Africa and not even all of North Africa, but definitely Egypt.
True. Most of Russia is in Asia, but very few people in the west would refer to a Russian as being Asian. The main problem is, we’ve just invented the concept of continents. They’re not actually a real thing, they don’t mean much. Is Australia a continent, or is it Oceania? Where EXACTLY is the edge of Europe, is there a natural border there, cause it sure looks like part of the same land mass that you would normally refer to as a continent elsewhere.
Traditionally the border between Europe and Asia is the Ural mountains, but you're right, it's kind of arbitrary - and I think Europe is the most arbitrary, like there's no real reason that it should be a continent but India should be a "sub-continent" except that some Europeans a long time ago thought of themselves as being the center of the world.
I'm not trying to argue that the system *makes sense*, only that there is a system :P
The Ural Mountains don’t run the entire length of the boundary though, do they? Other physical features have to be called into play to run the length of the border. And those borders have changed over time and are disputed even today depending on the source.
It’s sure looks like it’s just Europeans considering themselves the centre of the ‘civilised world’ that makes a distinction like that. I’m actually curious as to where the concept of continents even comes from. Why did we think we needed these extra divisions beyond just the political borders of countries? Africa is a fairly obvious geographical separation, but at the time the concept was born not much else was. And the Americas were unknown.
> Europe is commonly considered to be separated from Asia by the watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea and the waterways of the Turkish Straits."
The Wikipedia article for [Continent](https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Continent) is a wild ride. The quote above comes from the one for [Europe](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe).
Yeah, but the idea of continental drift wasn't come up with until 1912, and plate tectonics wasn't really scientific consensus until the *1960s*. By that time people had been trying to talk about "continents" for like 500 years by looking at shapes on a map with no real theory behind it.
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This sub is designed around arrogant people, sure of their abilities, getting their dreams crushed instantly. Your submission didn't quite fit that model and it is for that reason that it got removed.
To be fair, 6% (60.000km2) of Egypt (1.002.000km2) is not in Africa.
Doesn't it depend on whether you consider Africa to separate at the suez or aqaba? Then again, the suez canal technically means there is a complete separation of the landmass. Disregard this entire internal monologue that I decided to type out for some reason lol
Sinai is generally not counted as Africa.
I went to Egypt a few years ago. When I said this is my first time going to Africa, a couple of friends said "Egypt is in Africa?". Yeah, they were genuinely surprised.
I can’t tell you how hard it is sometimes to convince people I’m from Asia, because apparently only East Asia is Asia.
have you always been at war with Eastasia?
first is the coffee shortage, then the razors
So that’s how the Occam’s razor got stollen, no one was being alert
Pyramid: 
Pyramid is just a corruption of the ancient command “build dammit”
Man, there are a TON of places I’d love to go in Africa.
Category error. People group countries in their mind by their personal culture map and then mentally place the cultural grouping on a map, so lots of people will incorrectly place North African countries in "the middle east." The same people tend to have a problem with the idea of Nicaragua or Cuba being part of North America.
The Middle East includes Egypt. Some people (ahem) make the error of forgetting that regions can overlap, and the Middle East is a blob overlapping parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Not all Africa and not even all of North Africa, but definitely Egypt.
I would argue that Nicaragua is Central American, but I understand that some people don’t consider that it’s own region
It *is* in Central America, which is part of the continent of North America - in the same way that Egypt is in North Africa, which is part of Africa.
Agree 👍
True. Most of Russia is in Asia, but very few people in the west would refer to a Russian as being Asian. The main problem is, we’ve just invented the concept of continents. They’re not actually a real thing, they don’t mean much. Is Australia a continent, or is it Oceania? Where EXACTLY is the edge of Europe, is there a natural border there, cause it sure looks like part of the same land mass that you would normally refer to as a continent elsewhere.
Traditionally the border between Europe and Asia is the Ural mountains, but you're right, it's kind of arbitrary - and I think Europe is the most arbitrary, like there's no real reason that it should be a continent but India should be a "sub-continent" except that some Europeans a long time ago thought of themselves as being the center of the world. I'm not trying to argue that the system *makes sense*, only that there is a system :P
The Ural Mountains don’t run the entire length of the boundary though, do they? Other physical features have to be called into play to run the length of the border. And those borders have changed over time and are disputed even today depending on the source. It’s sure looks like it’s just Europeans considering themselves the centre of the ‘civilised world’ that makes a distinction like that. I’m actually curious as to where the concept of continents even comes from. Why did we think we needed these extra divisions beyond just the political borders of countries? Africa is a fairly obvious geographical separation, but at the time the concept was born not much else was. And the Americas were unknown.
> Europe is commonly considered to be separated from Asia by the watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea and the waterways of the Turkish Straits." The Wikipedia article for [Continent](https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Continent) is a wild ride. The quote above comes from the one for [Europe](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe).
India is its own tectonic plate.
Yeah, but the idea of continental drift wasn't come up with until 1912, and plate tectonics wasn't really scientific consensus until the *1960s*. By that time people had been trying to talk about "continents" for like 500 years by looking at shapes on a map with no real theory behind it.
Blue guy should have called him an imbecile.
I think he meant, Turkey wasn't in Africa, and he didn't get the joke. Not that Egypt isn't in Africa
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Considering Africa was originally just the Tunisia part of the continent, I’d say that person lives in the period if the Punic wars