[memsom]

The funny thing is that in other languages, you are not right. I thought I was remembering correctly, so I looked - here is what Swedish has to say:

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4rldsdelar_och_kontinent...

So - in Swedish, "kontenent" is a "continuous expanse of land". But a "världsdel" (which translates to "part of the world" roughly) is I guess "region". So - if you look at the table, "Europe" and "Asia" are both individual "världsdel", but they are one "kontinent" Eurasia. This certainly flies in the face of what I was taught in school - Europe was definitely a continent, as was Asia. Also notice, Oceana is a "världsdel", Australia is a "kontinent". But Google translates both words to "continent" in English, but the words are different.. kontinent is "geographical", but världsdel is "cultural".

I think this is what causes the issue - the definition of the 7 traditional continents in English is not universal. This page seems to imply it is very dependent on where you live (sorry, in Swedish again): https://www.geoguessr.com/seterra/sv/p/hur-manga-varldsdelar (this is google translates version: https://www-geoguessr-com.translate.goog/seterra/sv/p/hur-ma... )