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h1 T<i>here</i> A<i>re</i> T<i>wo</i> C<i>ontinents</i>
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strong.bigtext F<i>or dozens of years</i>,
| the human species have engaged ourselves in dweebish fights about how many con­ti­nents there are. Seven? Six, because America is one continent? Eight, because if Europe is a continent, then surely India deserves to be? Five, because they’re both just sub­con­ti­nents of Eurasia? <em>Four</em>, because of “Eur­afrasia”?
p Enough. There are two:
img#oecumene-map(src=qua('oecumene.png'), alt="A map of Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.")
p
strong.bigtext.ecumene T<i>he</i> Œ<i>cumene</i>
| (ee·#[+sc('kyoo')]·mə·nee) holds what is trad­i­tion­ally con­si­dered the “Old World”, as well as the scattered islands of Australia and the Pacific seas. It stretches from the glaciers of Iceland and the sandy deserts of the Sahara to the rain­forests of Borneo and the harsh Aus­tra­lian Outback, and is home to over 6.6 billion people, the vast majority of the world’s pop­u­la­tion.
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strong.ecumene Largest cities
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li Tokyo
li Jakarta
li Delhi
li Manila
li Seoul
li Mumbai
li
strong.ecumene Prominent peaks
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li Mt. Everest
li Kilimanjaro
li Puncak Jaya
li Mt. Elbrus
li Mont Blanc
li Mt. Damavand
li
strong.ecumene Longest rivers
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li Nile
li Yangtze
li Yenisei
li Yellow
li Ob
li Congo
img#cemanahuac-map(src=qua('cemanahuac.png'), alt="A map of America and Antarctica.")
p
strong.bigtext.cemanahuac C<i>ēmānāhuac</i>
| (say·mah·#[+sc('nah')]·wack) consists of the con­ti­nents of America and Antarctica, stretching from the Alaskan fjords and the swamps of the Mississippi to the world’s lungs in the Amazon rainforest and the frigid wastelands of the Antarctic. It is home to 960 million people, though almost none of them live in the southernmost region of Antarctica.
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li
strong.cemanahuac Largest cities
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li New York
li São Paulo
li Mexico City
li Los Angeles
li Buenos Aires
li Rio de Janeiro
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strong.cemanahuac Prominent peaks
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li Denali
li Aconcagua
li Pico Colón
li Mt. Logan
li Pico de Orizaba
li Vinson Massif
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strong.cemanahuac Longest rivers
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li Amazon
li Mississippi
li La Plata
li Mackenzie
li Tocantins
li Yukon
p
strong.bigtext A<i>mbiguities</i>
| may arise in off-shore islands that may not be able to be definitively assigned to either continent, such as the isolated islands of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. I’ve tried my best to assign them all to one or the other.
p #[strong.ecumene Iceland], though lying in between two continental plates, is definitively part of the Œcumene, having been settled from the east by Norsemen rather than from the west by Inuit. Similar reasons apply for #[strong.ecumene Svalbard] and #[strong.ecumene Jan Mayen], both sparsely-populated isles controlled by Norway.
p #[strong.ecumene The Azores] have strong cultural ties to Portugal, so, though the islands of Flores and Corvo lie on the North American plate, they are grouped with the rest as part of the Œcumene.
p The island of #[strong.cemanahuac Kerguelen] lies within the Antarctic Convergence and on its own submerged microcontinent reaching out to Antarctica, so it can safely be classified as part of Cēmānāhuac. The same goes for the #[strong.cemanahuac Heard and McDonald Islands].
p The islands of the Pacific have long been grouped together with Australia as part of the continent of “Oceania”, and are almost all included in the Œcumene, even the American-aligned isles of #[strong.ecumene Hawaiʻi] and #[strong.ecumene Rapa Nui]. The islands of #[strong.cemanahuac Clipperton] and the #[strong.cemanahuac Galapagos] are grouped in Cēmānāhuac, however, as they are far closer to there than the Œcumene’s mainland, and were first inhabited by settlers going east from Cēmānāhuac rather than Polynesians going west from the Pacific.
p Finally, the threading of the boundary between the Aleutian isles and the Bering Strait is a careful task, as there is a strong cultural linkage between the easternmost reaches of Russia and the westernmost tendrils of Alaska, and no obvious physical breakage point, with the North American plate continuing far into the Russian mainland. The best way of dividing it, then, is a political one; Russian islands such as #[strong.ecumene Big Diomede] and the #[strong.ecumene Commander Islands] are part of the Œcumene, while U.S.-American islands like #[strong.cemanahuac Little Diomede], #[strong.cemanahuac St. Lawrence Island], and #[strong.cemanahuac Attu] are part of Cēmānāhuac.