Australia, Australasia or Oceania?

[Rixion]

I always call it Oceania because that's what I was taught.

[Eric]

I think Australia is a continent and a country as well. Australasia is a region consists of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of the South West Pacific. I never heard of Oceania but according to the information on Wikipedia, i believe Oceania is a large region of the world consisting of the Pacific Islands and the seas around them.

[Milarz]

i have always thought the continent was australasia, as australia is just a county. but i have never heard of oceania

Australia is a continent/island, not a country lol.

[Sloths]

Hell no Aussie is not a continent! ..get slightly annoyed with that haha anyways Australasia is Aussie, NZ and Pacific islands whereas Oceania is all those plus from what I can remember Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. I say I live in Australasia if I had to say, I never use Oceania tbh

[le harry]

What are they teaching people in Geography these days!? Australia is a continent. Every country in the world does not have to belong to a continent. A continent is a just a large land mass separated by water.

[MissAlice]

What are they teaching people in Geography these days!? Australia is a continent. Every country in the world does not have to belong to a continent. A continent is a just a large land mass separated by water.

Agreed, I was always taught that Australia is a continent.

Below is a short reference.

The Continent of Australia and Oceania:

The "continent" of Australia/Oceania is a somewhat artifical construct, designed to link together the continental landmass of Australia with the huge number of widely scattered islands across the Pacific Ocean.

[Blinger]

Australia is a continent/island, not a country lol.

what the **** did you get taught at school? How the **** are we not a country?

[Milarz]

Someones got an anger problem. Maybe if you look it up, you'll find out it's an island, not a Country.

[Recursion]

Someones got an anger problem. Maybe if you look it up, you'll find out it's an island, not a Country.

What're you smoking? Of course it's a country, what governments do you think they follow?


Australia ( /əˈstreɪljə/), officially the Commonwealth of Australia,^[10] is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of theAustralian continent as well as the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.^{[N 4]} It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia

[Milarz]

We call it a country, it's not classed as a country, how many times do i have to say look it up? Pretty sure you'd find it all over google + i am 20 years old, i think i know info on Australia. lol.