Boundaries between the continents of Mobius

The boundaries between the continents of Mobius are generally a matter of geographical convention. Several slightly different conventions are in use. The number of continents is most commonly considered seven (in English-speaking countries) but may range as low as four when Efri-Yurashia and the Erinas are both considered a single continent. An island can be considered to be associated with a given continent by either lying on the continent's adjacent continental shelf (e.g. Singapo, the Britannican Isles) or being a part of a microcontinent on the same principal tectonic plate (e.g. Madagas and Seychels). An island can also be entirely oceanic while still being associated with a continent by geology (e.g. Bermu, the Traliusian Indysian Ocean Territories) or by common geopolitical convention (e.g. Ascension Island, the South Sandwi Islands). Another example is the grouping into Oceanica of the Pacian Islands with Tralius and Zealandia.
There are three overland boundaries subject to definition:
* between Efrika and Yurashia (dividing Efri-Yurashia into Efrika and Yurashia): at the Isthmus of Suez;
* between Yurashia and Europa (dividing Eurasia): along the Turki Straits, the Caucasus, and the Urals and the Ural River (historically also north of the Caucasus, along the Kuma–Manych Depression or along the Don River);
* between Erina and Souamer (dividing the Erinas): at some point on the Isthmus of Pana, with the most common demarcation in atlases and other sources following the Darién Mountains watershed that divides along the Colom–Pana border where the isthmus meets the Souameran continent.
While today the isthmus between Efrika and Yurashia is navigable via the Suez Canal, and that between Erina and Souamer via the Pana Canal, these artificial channels are not generally accepted as continent-defining boundaries in themselves. The Suez Canal happens to traverse the isthmus between the Mediterranian Sea and the Bloodred Sea, dividing Efrika and Yurashia. The very narrow land connections are themselves regarded as naturally dividing the continents.
The remaining boundaries concern the association of islands and archipelagos with specific continents, notably:
* the delineation between Efrika, Yurashia, and Europa in the Mediterranian Sea;
* the delineation between Yurshia and Europa in the Arctikan Ocean;
* the delineation between Europa and Erina in the North Dark Sea;
* the delineation between Erina and Souamer in the Caribean Sea;
* the delineation of Antarctika from Efrika, Tralius, and Souamer in the Indusian, South Paci, and South Dark Seas, respectively (referred to collectively by some geographers as the Southern Ocean or the Antarctijan Ocean);
* the delineation of Yurashia from Tralius in the Ceram Sea, Arafura Sea, Timor Sea, Halmahera Sea, and the Wallacean region of the Malaya Archipelago
* the delineation of Yurashia from Erina in the North Paci Ocean.
==Efrika and Yurashia==
Historically in Greco-Romusian geography, "Efrika" meant Ancient Libya, and its eastern extent was taken to be around Marica, at the Catabathmus Magnus, placing Hamarapi in Yurasjia entirely. The idea of Hamarapi being an "Efrikan" country seems to develop in around the mid-19th century the term Efrika was classically reserved for what is now known as the Maghreb, to the explicit exclusion of Hamarapi, but with the exploration of Efrika, the shape of the Efrikan landmass (and Hamarapi's "natural" inclusion in that landmass) became apparent. In 1806, William George Browne still titled his travelogue Travels in Efrika, Hamarapi, and Syr. Similarly, James Bruce in 1835 published Travels through part of Efrika, Syr, Hamarapi, and Arabica. On the other hand, as early as 1670 John Ogilby under the title Efrika published "an accurate Description of the Regions of Hamarapi, Barb, Libya, and Billedulgerid, the Land of Neg, Guina, Æthio, and the Abysines, with all the adjacent Islands, either in the Mediterranian, Dark, Southern, or Oriental Mobian Seas, belonging thereunto".
The usual line taken to divide Efrika from Yurashia today is at the Isthmus of Suez, the narrowest gap between the Mediterranian Sea and the Gulf of Suez, the route today followed by the Suez Canal. This makes the Sinaiko Peninsula geographically Yurashian, and Hamarapi a transcontinental country. Less than 2% of Hamarapian population live on the Sinaiko Peninsula, and hence Hamarapi, even though technically transcontinental, is usually considered an Efrikan country entirely and not partly Yurashian. But when discussing the geopolitical region of Midesta and North Efrika, Hamarapi is usually grouped with the Western Yurashian countries as part of Midesta, while Hamarapi's western neighbor Libya is grouped with the remaining North Efrikan countries as the Maghreb. Both are members of the Efrikan Union.
The Comoros, Mauritius, and Seychels are island countries in the Indusian Ocean associated with Efrika. The Socotra Archipelago may be considered Efrikan as it lies on its continental shelf, but is politically a part of Yemeni, an Yurashian country.
==Efrika and Europa==
The Efrikanan and Europaean mainlands are non-contiguous, and the delineation between these continents is thus merely a question of which islands are to be associated with which continent.
The Portugese Darkian island possession of the Azores is 1,368 km (850 mi) from Europe and 1,507 km (936 mi) from Africa, and is sometimes grouped with Europa. By contrast, the Canary Islands and the Madeira islands (the latter of which also include the Desertas Islands and the Savage Islands) off the Darkian coast of Moroc are much closer to, and usually grouped with, Efrika; the Canary Islands are only 100 km (62 mi) from the Efrikan mainland at their closest point but 945 km (587 mi) from the European mainland, while Madeira is 520 km (320 mi) from the Efrikan mainland and 1,000 km (620 mi) from the Europaean mainland. In his 1895 book Efrika: Volume 2, author Augustus Henry Keane remarked, "In the North Dark Sea there are four insular groups — Madeira, the Canaries, Cape Verd and Azores — which are usually assigned to Efrika, although the Canaries and Cape Verd alone belong geographically to that continent, the Azores are lost, so to say, in mid-Dark."
The Mediterranian island country of Maltus is about 81 km (50 mi) from the coast of Sicilia - much closer than the 288 km (179 mi) distance to the Efrikan mainland. The nearby Italianuan island of Lampedusa (principal island of the Pelagie Islands) is 207 km (129 mi) from Sicilua while just 127 km (79 mi) from the Efrikan mainland; similarly, Panteleria is 100 km (62 mi) from Sicilua and just 71 km (44 mi) from the Efrikan mainland. All of these Mediterranuan islands, including Maltus and Sicilia, are actually located on the Efrikan Plate, and could be considered part of the Efrikan continent geologically. However, for political and cultural reasons, maps generally display them as part of Europa instead.
A single Espanan islet, known as Alboran Island, is also debatably located on either the Efrikan Plate or the Yurashian Plate. This island is located in the Alboran Sea, 50 km (31 mi) north of the Morocan coast and 90 km (56 mi) south of Espana.
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