which continent has better skyscrapers, north america or asia?
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Asia, North america isn't as stable, or as beautiful.
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EASTERN\n\nbecause INDIAN OCEAN + PACIFIC is much bigger than just the ATLANTIC OCEAN
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artic...passes through europe asia and North america...Antartic only passes through south america and antartica
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There are 7 continents: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Austrailia, and Antarctica.
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Africa! It has many more countries!\n\nP.S. No offense, but you spelt continent and countries wrong.
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asia\nafrica\naustralia\nnorth america\nsouth america\nantarctica\neurope
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Istanbul..it is located on both Asia and Europe.
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north america, south america, europe, africa, asia, australia, antarctica
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There are seven continents in the world. I live in USA in the continent North America.\n\n1) North America\n2) Asia\n3) South America\n4) Europe\n5) Australia\n6) Africa\n7) Antarctica
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Definitely the more advanced industrialized countries--North America, Europe, Australia.
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the five major continents - n. america, s. america, europe, africa, and asia.
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Of what Continent or Island?
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Most continents are too large to have a dominant anything (especially Asia).
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Asia\nAustralia\nAntartica\nNorth America\nSouth America\nEurope\nAfrica
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Good question, and a tough one to answer, although I'm skeptical of the "all known criteria" piece of it.  I did browse much of the Wikipedia entry, and I also have a globe here to look at.\n\nTo rephrase this question, I guess we could say, (1) why is it not a continent, and (2) why is it a subcontinent?\n\nTraditionally, there are six or seven continents -- North & South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.  Sometimes Europe & Asia are combined into Eurasia, and some people like to combine the Americas.\n\nSize and geographic separation seem to be important ... the Central America connection is pretty narrow, as is the Suez connection.  On the other hand, the Ural mountains separating Europe from Asia is an ancient plate boundary (similar to the Appalachians, and much older than the Himalayas), and the Ural boundary certainly is not "narrow."  In that case, however, there are huge historical cultural differences between, for example, western Europe and East Asia.\n\nIn terms of size, Australia is the smallest continent, and Greenland is the largest island.  India is much closer in size to Greenland than to Australia.  (Also compare Madagascar, a large island drifting away from Africa.  The tectonic activity there is similar to India.)\n\nSo on the question of "why isn't it a continent," I'd say size matters a lot -- India isn't big enough -- and I'd say the closest boundary comparison is between the Himalaya barrier and the Urals.  West of the Urals is much, much larger than south of the Himalayas.\n\nCultural comparisons matter too, and by this measure, India could be considered a continent in its own right.  The Indian population is significantly different than the neighboring Oriental and Caucasian peoples.\n\nWhen you balance all this stuff, I guess you say Europe is its own continent -- it's big and culturally differentiable; but India is not a continent because it's not big enough.\n\nThe other part of the question is, why is it a subcontinent?  There, the Himalayas and, to a lesser extent, the Indian Plate, make a big difference.  Because of the mountains, India is geograpically separated from the rest of Asia.\n\nIt's also a large peninsula.  In this regard, we must compare with the Arabian Peninsula (which sits on the Arabian Plate), and maybe with Asia Minor, the boundary of which (by looking at a globe) may be said to extend from the Persion Gulf to the eastern end of the Black Sea, thus comprising a large area encompassing Turkey, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.  The other obvious large peninsula is Western Europe itself, bounded on the east by a line extending from the Black Sea to the Baltic.\n\nBut neither of those peninsulas have the Himalaya Mountain barrier.\n\nSo putting that altogether, I guess that's why India is a subcontinent and not a continent.  And since it seems to be the only generally recognized subcontinent in the world, that makes it pretty unique.
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Are you referring to tectonic plates?  Geographically, North America is one continent, but geologically there are smaller plates that has been pressed against the main North American plate.  The science is known as plate tectonics.  For instance, the Juan de Fuca plate is one of these.  The Pacific oceanic plate is also moving against the North American plate, and I would guess that the San Andreas Fault marks the boundary between the North American Plate and a mini-plate (technically known as a micro-craton) that has been accreted between the Pacific Plate and North America.\n\nSorry if this is not what you meant.  I'm trying not to be too technical.\n\nGeographically the next continent west of the USA is Asia.
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There are lots of countries in Asia.\n\nJapan-Junichiro Koizumi\nS. Korea-Roh Moo Hun