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Re:Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Ant... by dmos62 on Friday April 03, 2020 @05:33AM (#22767578)
Just to clarify because it was unclear to me, that's North and South Americas together that make up 42 million km^2. North America alone makes up 24,7 million km^2.
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Re:Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Ant... by mkl on Friday April 03, 2020 @06:37AM (#22767870)
Some parts of the world consider the Americas one continent. See here, for example: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskEurope/comments/7nuqu2/are_the_a...
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Re:Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Ant... by trumbitta2 on Friday April 03, 2020 @09:13AM (#22768826)
Yep, for us in Italy the continents are 5: America, Eurasia, Antarctica, Africa, Oceania (Australia + New Zealand + several minor isles).

Geographically speaking, we then have North America (Canada, USA), Central America (Mexico to strait of Panama), South America, and Caribbeans.

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