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Oceania or Australia as a continent. : r/geography - Reddit
It's important to note that Oceania is not a continent, so the Oceania "region" can be as wide reaching as one needs it to be. For further clarity, the continent of Australia meanwhile consists primarily of Australia, Tasmania, Papua, and a number of smaller islands.
ELI5: Is Australia the continent, or is Oceania? What's the ... - Reddit
2017年2月1日 · The continent is Oceania. From wikipedia: The term is often used more specifically to denote a continent comprising Australia and proximate islands[7][8][9][10] or biogeographically as a synonym for either the Australasian ecozone (Wallacea and Australasia) or the Pacific ecozone (Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia, excluding both New Zealand ...
Australia or Oceania? : r/geography - Reddit
2021年11月6日 · Australia is the continent, Oceania is simply just a geographical region that describes some small parts of south east asia, Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Island countries, it is not a continent, it is no different that calling the …
Oceania is a continent !! Most people think Australia is the
The Oceania continent has Australia , fiji , New Zealand , Papua New Guinea , and many more lands are actually in this 1 continent. Most people have never heard of this and if you ask them to name off all the continents they will list the 7 but with it being Australia as one not oceania .
Is Oceania a continent or Australia? : r/geography - Reddit
2023年10月20日 · The answer usually varies considering the part of the world people come from. In some countries Oceania is considered as a continent (comprising all the small islands like Niue or Tokelau and big ones like Australia and New Guinea), while in others (mainly the Anglophone countries) Australia is a continent.
Why is the continent Australia not called Oceania? : r/geography
2023年1月21日 · Australia and New Guinea are the continent. Oceania is just a term that IMO is kind of useless as it just shoves a bunch of the pacific islands into a single region which is kind of ridiculous with how massive it is. It’s not a continent. It’s a region. Similar to the Caribbean. It’s a distinct entity, but not a continent. More a subregion.
I don’t understand this logic, isn’t New Zealand part of the same ...
It depends on who you ask, in my experience Latins (from Europe and the Americas), Aussies, and Kiwis tend to consider Australia and NZ to be on the same continent, i.e. Oceania, where Australia is the continental mainland and New Zealand is located on islands off the mainland, the same way Japan and China are on the same continent but only ...
Debate: Is Australia a continent or part of Oceania? : r/geography
The continent of Australia- the country of Australia + the island of New Guinea Oceania- the continent of Australia + three other regions of the Pacific (Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia) Note that this is all true in English, other languages do not differentiate Oceania and the Australian continent. Respect the language you are speaking.
Oceania as a continent? : r/geography - Reddit
2015年12月3日 · So recently I was looking at countries in the Australia/Oceania area. Australia was listed as a country and continent, in the the continent of Australia, as I expected. However, New Zealand was listed as being part of the continent of Oceania, not Australia or …
Why isn’t Indonesia considered part of Oceania? : r/geography
2023年1月21日 · The Phillipines is in a smiler position but usually leans more towards Oceania due to having much more austronesian influence. Ultimately Oceania is a very arbitrary term (even more than a continent) so you could technically include Indonesia if you wanted to, but it makes more sense to include it as part of Asia even though parts of it like ...