“I teach geography for a living” 1 min later “Europe is East of Russia”

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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.

We all know Europe is east of Russia.

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

"They wouldn't become a Indian they would become _a_ Indian." lmao xD

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

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

"Try describing the European Union without mentioning a continent." A union on the European Peninsula

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

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.

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

Japan, Indoniesia, Madagascar: Oh look, me and the other islands do not belong to continents! Wait...

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

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

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

Continent: A large landmass defined by Geography alone Sub-continent: A large region within a continent that is defined by a mix of Culture and Geography.

i think clumping up middle east together would make more sense than having basicaly iran as its own continent

In my opinion, Anatolia-Arabia should be called Asia in this division instead, because the earliest usage of the term Asia referred to Anatolia. The Central, North, East and Southeast Asia can have a different name altogether but I don’t have a name in mind yet

I tend to divide Asia into these subcontinents: *East Asia:* The only region I used to associate with Asia growing up, before I knew better. Stretching from China & Mongolia to Japan, and from the Koreas to Taiwan. *Southeast Asia:* Indochina and the Malay archipelagos. I sometimes lumped this one together with the rest of East Asia, mostly because of the similarities in phenotypes. *Indian Subcontinent:* India and the countries which it borders *Central Asia:* All the -stan countries minus Pakistan. I was barely aware of this region until a few years back when I realized how distinct they were from their neighbors in the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent. *Middle East:* The Arabian Peninsula, Levant, Mesopotamian region, the Caucasus, Anatolia, + Egypt and Iran, though I now realize that Iran has more connections to Afghanistan. Which makes sense when you consider the fact that the two are part of Greater Iran Edit: forgot about *North Asia* or Russian Siberia

I can't believe Atlas never mentioned the concept of tectonic plate boundaries in this video. I think Europe and Asia are separate because of their diversity, not their separation due to landforms.

Theoretically, I think you could also split the islands of Indonesia by the Wallace line and incorporate those sides into either Asia or Australia. Just my personal thinking

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

11:45: All Continents had "a" as first and last letter Europe: I'm joke to you?

3:36 "You could aruge 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 create 2 distinct regions, glacier and mountains." Thank me later.

"Centimeter, which is the smallest." *Angry millimeter noises.*

3:45 You just used the satellite map of Eastern Kazakhstan/Southern Russia for a prosperous Greenland in the Atlantic. 😂

"Just like how one kilometer can never equal one meter, one continent can never equal one region." The problem with this is that not every region is the same size, whereas every meter is the same size. It really becomes a problem when you consider the fact that the Sahara-which I believe would be one region under this definition of a region, since I'm pretty sure it is one desert-at 9.2 million square kilometers, is larger than Australia at 7.7 million square kilometers. This would appear to suggest that a region can indeed be larger than a continent, which breaks the rules of the proposed system. The only way such a system could work is if these terms were to refer to a specific amount of area, the same way acres, hectares, and other units of area measurement do. You could, for example, call a region 2 million sq. km and a continent 10 million sq. km, and then you would have a system that actually corresponds to the metric system. Of course, if you did this then there would be multiple North American continents, multiple African continents, at least 4 Asian continents. Europe could still be its own continent. You could also have half-continents if you wanted. Australia would be about 3/4 continents. But at that point the whole system of continents would be totally unrelated to its original meaning, so we've done nothing useful. (unlike this comment, which is COMPLETELY useful and productive.) To conclude, I think we should keep the current vague, somewhat useful, and disputed/disputable system of six or seven continents, because ultimately it's not very important. There are much better ways to describe geographic locations on the globe, like countries, perhaps. Anyway, good video, it's a fun topic to think about. And if you read all that, thanks for reading!

People living on islands: *anger*

When he does this: Me: Yay! When half of the countries of Asia become transcontinental Me: Oh no!!!!!

Person 1:What countries are in the European Union Person 2: The countries in Europe 1: So like Norway, Switzerland, and Ukraine? 2: No

I prefer the seperation of Asia and Europe geographically but I think using your same criteria Italy and Iberia become continents don't they?

My problem with drawing a line across the zagros in that the Persian/Arabian gulf is so thin. The Zagros didn't exactly stop anyone from crossing. The Caliphates, the Sassanids, the Achaemenids, everyone crossed over.

You needed 13 minutes to explain "Let everything be as it already is, but devide Asia into 4 pieces."

Oxford dictionary definition of Continents: *_exists_* Atlas Pro: *hold my beer*

I'm a bit confused on your definition of a "region"

I have defined political continents. I had draw a graph of countries and their geographical connections. Then I use automatic clusterisation tools, and found they are clustered in 8 continents. Africa became two continents, Europe lost Iberian peninsula to North Africa, Middle East was a separate continent, and Indonesia went to Australia+Oceania (I've used EEZ borders as a reference).

I really like the ten continent way. I think it's very understandable and in a very cultural way.

kilometer biggest? centimeter smallest? bruh that's not how the metric system works

This is basically a video explaining why Europe is its own continent

Here are my thoughts to get all As : Æuropa (Europe) Africa (Africa) Asia (Eastern Asia) Archæsia (your Achemia, your Anarabia + Caucasus all in one) Abharata (India) Amazonia (South America) Anahuaca (North America) Australia (Oceania) Arctica (Greenland) Antarctica (Penguinia)

Slight adjustments - 1. Include Japan, S.Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei with Oceania. 2. Include Ireland, Uk Iceland and other European islands with Europe and include other islands with their respective continents. 3. Merge Achaesia with Arabia. 4. Combine Aindia with Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.

You have imperialised the continent system, but ended up with a nice metric result.

His definition of a 'region' is really weird; he might be getting it confused with biomes. I think most people would classify a region more along human terms rather than geological. Instead of drawing the boundaries based on where the land is roughly the same, you'd want to go by demographic details. I think he focused too much on simplifying the terms and ended up jumbling them up in his head. Btw, dick move just ignoring the East Indies :/

I'm not exactly sure where I would draw the line exactly, but somewhere in the south-west United States or in Mexico, there should be a divide, with the northern side being North America and the southern side being Central America. These two regions have been completely different for millennia, so grouping them as one and the same doesn't make sense. The rule about continents being divided by mountains only seems to apply to Eurasia, which doesn't make sense, when the Rockies and Andes mountains exist. Also by the region argument, Antarctica is actually far less diverse in it's regions than Greenland. If having multiple regions on a continent is a prerequisite, then Antarctica does not qualify. Since it doesn't qualify, we have to exclude anything smaller than it, so sorry Australia, Europe, Aindia, Anarabia, and Achaemia.

Let's call the first unit continent, and the second one a sub continent- like the Indian sub-continent. I think it would work well enough

Well thought, I have a suggestion. As the Alpes somewhat "divide" Europe, can we argue that Anarbia and Achaemia could co-exist?

Atlas pro: The foot, the time-honoured best unit *Ok, I'm gonna stop you right there*

The problem I have with the Achaemenid continent is that no one empire has been able to conquer an entire continent. The Persians just had mountains as their shield to the outside world. Same with Italy.

Only India and China are more populated than 5 continent's. Edited - 6, I forget Antarctica.

8:20 "...everyone knows how big a foot is" Kids with no legs : *am i a joke to you?*

1. 1:28 East of Russia? You sure bout that? 2. 3:35 You could aruge? 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 Trans-Antarctic mountain range and at the very least create 2 distinct regions, glacier and mountains. (For those who couldn't catch it) All jokes aside though, this channel is incredible. Watched through the whole thing and thoroughly enjoyed it :)

Greenland is not all glaciers, it also has mountains, fjords, tundra, grasslands and woodland.

I think the line separating Achaemenia from the rest of Asia should be along the Karakorum and Tien Shan Mountains, basically including the rest of the stans.

3:52 "The next biggest landmass after Greenland is Australia" Greenland : 2.17 million km2 Australia : 7.69 million km2

So you basically invented the concept of subcontinent ?? Whoah.

You forgot about impenetrable deserts, which divide continents just like mountain ranges. Technically speaking Africa and North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt etc.) are completely different continent separated by the Sahara desert. North Africa might be considered part of Anarabia as well, but it is a bit tricky, because it is also significantly influenced by Mediterranean Europe (Greece, Italy/ancient Rome, Spain etc.).

atlas pro: there are 10 continents zealandia: am i a joke to you?

I have to wonder what's wrong with the term "subcontinent" to describe major subsections of the larger continents. It's been in use for ages to describe South Asia (i.e. the Indian subcontinent). Europe is really a subcontinent of Eurasia. Both regions are not just defined by mountain ranges but by culture and historical ties. Eurasia could be broken into quite a few logical subcontinents. Africa could be broken into at least two (North Africa and Subsaharan Africa). I'm not sure if the concept of subcontinents could easily be imported into the Americas. Perhaps in a cultural sense in North America (Latin America versus the US/Canada) but that's almost exclusively cultural whereas the Old World examples were cultural groups divided by a geography. Also, why not consider tectonic plates in the description of continent if you aren't factoring in culture? They provide one of the best logical reasons to consider North and South America to be separate continents... because a few million years ago, they literally were until the collided.

But metric-users use the meter like a foot. We also have a decimeter (1/10*m) but we use the Meter for comparison and imagining things on human scale.

Aaah the Metric system... pure perfection. 10mm = 1cm. 100cm = 1m. 1000m = 1km etc. Fit together like a puzzle. Inch, Foot, Yard, ... make no sense together

I think it would've been better to put "Anarabia" and "Achaemenia" together to just call it "Middle east".

"Everyone knows how big a foot is" I guess that's why we only have one shoe size huh?

Anarabia should be just called Asia or Asia Minor since the name Asia at the beginning meant the region of modern day Turkey.

You could also have the mountain range of China, which divides West and East China. Note that East China contains 94% of its population so I think it’d be pretty reasonable to use it, and it would divide the Typical asian stereotype (Chinese, Korean, Japanese) from the nomadic tribes of Central Asia and West China

*Where do you live?* Me: I live in no continent, according do Atlas.

0:47 are you familiar with milimeters?

Geography Now: Finally a good competitor

At the least, you can just combine Achaemia and Anarbia together to form the Middle East. For the most part, you basically just recreated all the continents we have already established with extra smaller continents but I'd be fine with Aindia and/or the Middle East being established as separate continents.

- Teaching geography on KZfaq. - Calling Australia the _next biggest_ landmass _after_ Greenland. Choose one.

If you want another topic to cover: what are islands? Why is America not the biggest island or afroeurasia and how can Australia can count as both?

I think the Greater Iran region is sometimes called "Ariana"

America: imperial is the best system Damn near everyone else: no it's metric Britain: hold my beer

11:42 Europe: laughs in E *and cries

"A centimeter is the smallest unit, atlas pro 2019" Millimeter: am i a joke to you

Is this geography fan fiction?

When Madagascar had multiple regions on it even though it's a island

1:16 easy British Isles (just Ireland after stupid brexit) Major 2 Iberian states France Benelux Germany Italy Slovenia Croatia The 4 countries at the heart of Europe Poland Romania Bulgaria Greece Malta Cyprus Scandinavia except Norway

1:43 "...this keeps the trend of continents that both begin and end with the letter A" Europe: Am I a joke to you?

*Atlas Pro redefines the continents Island nations: "Am I a joke to you?"

I would still say that continents should contain nearby islands with a central landmass. Oceania could be a continent, including Zealandia, Papua New Guinea, and Polynesia and Micronesia. South America could take half the Caribbean, North America the northern half and Greenland, and Europe (or whatever Axxxa name it takes under this new system) could still have the northern Mediterranean, the British Isles, and Iceland.

That final step divides the U.S. and all the Americas quite a bit so you have more than ten continents. I feel like that deserves exploration.

1:21 you mixed up east and west twice in a row

who else rewatched the same scene around 3:37 to finally catch what the written text said?

0:47 "and then centimeters which are the smallest" Millimeters, micrometers,nanometers,femptometers: What about us? We're smaller!

i say just define continents by the 15 major continental plates: Pacific, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Nazca, Caribbean, South American, Scotia, African, Eurasian, Arabian, Indian, Australian, Anarctic. This allows for the easy inclusion of all islands into the continent system. What continent is Great Britain a part of? The Eurasian Continent (Eurasia). What continent is Hawaii a part of? The Pacific Continent (Pacifica?)

When you highlight Antarctica at 4:27 you highlight all the ice in addition to all the land but your definition refers to landmasses so... I am now unreasonably angry about a tiny thing

9:36 why are the mountain ranges in turkey cut in that way? According to this video, Turkey would be in three continents.

I actually think that the islands in the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, the Southeast Asian islands, and Southeast Asia should be combined to form another continent. 1. Because it has a large population 2. It has a diverse climate It would clean up that part of the world and make it simpler to talk about

Antarctica: Exists Atlas Pro: It's not real estate

That East-West dyslexia

You might as well have kept going by your definition. East africa seperates from the rest of Africa from the ethiopian highlands and the great rift. North america can be split 4 ways. Everything East of the appalachian mountains, everything west of the Rocky Mountains, everything south of the sierra nevada. Leaving everything between the rockies and appalachians from the gulf of mexico to the arctic as one continent. South america can stay whole or chile ecuador and peru might be seperate. I love your videos but this was bad in so many ways.

Really appreciate the effort put into this video, but... honestly, I think a better way of this is to treat them as a bit more abstract, like countries. Keeping your metaphor of km > m > cm, continent > country > city. Why does a city have it's borders here? dunno, just the way we do things. Why does a country have its border here? Dunno, just the way we do things. Why does a continent have its border here? Dunno, just the way we do things. It doesn't make much sense to me to have such a rigid definition of what a continent is when we don't have a definition of what a country is either.

6:35 Where is New Zealand? Let's us all bring New Zealand back to maps! Justice for Aotearoa!🇳🇿