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Edit: Oh, the move issue is not by country. When I reloaded I could move a country I previously couldn't.
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It's a continent. Otherwise, we may as well call North America an island.
Well, since you bring it up, Australia isn't connected to another continent by land like North America is (as are Europe, Africa, and Asia). You'd have to say "the Americas" are an island, or "Afro-Eurasia"
ANTARCTICA 5,400,000 sq mi AUSTRALIA 2,969,900 sq mi GREENLAND 836,330 sq mi
It is surprising that a lot of educated folks don't know about this. I always run into folks who think Greenland is the biggest island. Edit: on Australia being continent - now I come across as a fool. But I hope people understood what I meant. Also, I have had to argue against folks who said Greenland should also be a continent since it is bigger than Australia.
Some countries seems to be impossible to move for me. Morocco and Ghana for example. Also, The Ivory Coast is only searchable by its French name, Côte d'Ivoire, while having its English name on the map. Edit: Oh, the move issue is not by country. When I reloaded I could move a country I previously couldn't.
I also find their insistence on nobody translating or even transliterating their country's name annoying.
It is surprising that a lot of educated folks don't know about this. I always run into folks who think Greenland is the biggest island. Edit: on Australia being continent - now I come across as a fool. But I hope people understood what I meant. Also, I have had to argue against folks who said Greenland should also be a continent since it is bigger than Australia.
If it's the only projection you've ever seen - and globes aren't all that common - it's a reasonable misconception.
Kind of makes you wonder what other projections we're carrying around in our heads.
The projection is inconsistent: dragging a country over where it really belongs results in an outline that does not line up.
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It's a continent. Otherwise, we may as well call North America an island.
How? Isn't it connected to South America?