Boundaries between the continents of Earth | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-15

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00:01:42 1 Europe and Africa
00:03:40 2 Europe and Asia
00:04:14 2.1 History
00:07:22 2.2 Modern definition
00:11:11 2.3 Islands
00:12:20 3 Europe and North America
00:13:09 3.1 Islands
00:14:30 4 Africa and Asia
00:16:34 5 North and South America
00:16:43 5.1 Mainland
00:17:12 5.2 Islands
00:17:59 6 Asia and North America
00:19:03 7 The Americas and Oceania
00:19:57 8 Asia and Oceania
00:21:25 9 Antarctica
00:22:38 10 See also



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SUMMARY
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The boundaries between the continents of Earth are generally a matter of geographical convention.  Several slightly different conventions are in use.  The number of continents is most commonly considered seven but may range as low as four when the Americas and Afro-Eurasia are each considered a single continent.  According to the definition of a continent in the strict sense, an island cannot be part of any continent, but by convention and in practice most major islands are associated with a continent.
There are three overland boundaries subject to definition:

between Europe and Asia (dividing Eurasia): along the Turkish Straits, the Caucasus and the Urals (historically also north of the Caucasus, along the Kuma–Manych Depression or along the Don River)
between Asia and Africa (dividing Afro-Eurasia into Africa and Eurasia): at the Isthmus of Suez
between North America and South America (dividing the Americas): the Isthmus of PanamaWhile the isthmus between Asia and Africa and that between North and South America are today navigable, via the Suez and Panama canals, respectively, diversions and canals of human origin generally are not accepted on their own accord as continent-defining boundaries; the  Suez Canal happens to traverse the isthmus between the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea, dividing Asia and Africa. The remaining boundaries concern the association of islands and archipelagos with specific continents, notably:

the delineation of Southeast Asia from Australasia (part of Oceania) in the Ceram Sea, Arafura Sea, Timor Sea, Halmahera Sea, and Malay Archipelago
the delineation between Africa, Europe and Asia in the Mediterranean Sea
the delineation between Asia and Europe in the Arctic Ocean
the delineation between Europe and North America in the Atlantic Ocean
the delineation between North and South America in the Caribbean Sea
the delineation of Asia from North America in the North Pacific Ocean