• ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    That’s literally the same thing, we kept the expression even when we know it isn’t accurate any more, because we still have the need to express the original meaning.

    If anything, we should split Asia in more subcontinents.

    • inari@piefed.zip
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      6 days ago

      Informally, we kinda do. Middle East, East Asia, South East Asia, South Asia.

    • tea@lemmy.today
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      7 days ago

      Yeah, fair enough.

      Still seems like, with the way that continent is typically defined, Eurasia should be the continent with subcontients of Europe, Asia, India, and the Middle East.