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True continent sizes (slrpnk.net)

submitted 4 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How is Europe minus Russia not a political boundary, even if it's an exclusionary one? What non-political reason is there to subtract the area of Russia from the area of the continent?

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What I wanted to say is it's not a country as the comment about me implied. The EU might be something like a "supercountry" but Europe minus Russia doesn't not have any specific political structures you could call a country

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Sure, but the majority of it has a very high degree of diplomatic and economic cooperation. The map of Europe also appears to be excluding the region of Kazakhstan west of the Ural River, it's a pretty arbitrary map even as far as the distinction of Europe/Asia vs Eurasia doesn't already seem a bit arbitrary.