It is considered a lot of things. But there has to be a arbitrary line somewhere.You could justifiably count Eurasia as an island, or New Zealand as a continent.
Can Zealandia count to agree on Australia being it's own continent? Because if we go that way then we can consider Seychelles to be on the Mascarene continent, Madagascar to be its own continent if I remember well, some central american countries, and a few other areas I think. And we might have to revise the list of transcontinental countries as well...
Pretty sure Australia the country is considered an island, making up the continent of Oceania together with New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and smaller Pacific island states.
That's how I see it but what constitutes each continent is not universally agreed upon and Jetpunk considers Australia to be a continent in itself, and therefore not an island nation. Weirdly.
It's not even agreed upon by everyone how many continents there are, never mind where their borders are. At least Jetpunk is fairly consistent with itself
Australia is a continent, Oceania is not a continent it is a arbitrarily designated region.
Traditionally the continents that are most often described are Nth and Sth America, Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia and Europe (7 in total)
Geologicallly Europe and Asia are the same continent but in the last decade a seventh geological continent i.e.
the only other "continent" in the south pacific (and the earth) is Zealandia which apparently meets all the criteria for a continent and would be very obviously one if most of it wasn't submerged. As the name suggests its main visible land mass is New Zealand from where it runs north as far as New Caledonia coming very close to Australia off Queensland
In my language we have 2 different words where english uses one. (usually the other way around, like how in english you have pigeons and doves and turtles an tortoises while in many languages they are considered part of the same thing, but I digress). One is continent aswell and is strictly geographical so based on continental plates. The other "werelddeel" literally meaning worldpart is continent in the sense of the regions people decided to separate the word into.
Many of the discussions and arguments I see on this site seem to involve this subject. People using different parameters arguing with eachothers. One says it belong to it because it is on the same plate, the other say it isnt, because it is outside the agreed borders. It is like people arguing about different things.
This is an international website now, with most quizzers here living throughout the world. A minority of activity in this website happens in United States.
I personally blame being taught that Australia is a continent for my inability to judge distances in other countries, since they fail to teach us that it's also the *smallest* continent. Ask me how long it takes to drive from southern Germany to northern Germany and I'll assume it takes an hour or two. And surely Victoria is bigger than California?
As a teacher of Geography (in Australia), I can assure you that Australia is a continent and definitely NOT an island. The world’s largest island is Greenland.
It is surrounded by water so it is an island. It doesn't matter if it has been given the status of continent later on. That is just a label, like the calling the place Australia. Made up by men (unless you are referring to continents in a geological sense and not a geopolitical sense (social/cultural construct). Because humans can't change what a continental plate is as much as they can't change what an island is.)
If you consider Australia an island, you might as well just go ahead and consider Antarctica an island as well. It has more landmass, sure, but since the definition of island is arbitrary, there is no reason to draw that line at Australia and not Antarctica. Since we are not going to do that, I think we have to agree to something like Greenland = island, >Greenland = continent.
Try which continent does Cyprus belong to. And add a little bit of is England a country and is Russia in Europe. Also is Greenland a country in its own right and why is the poor thing never counted/included (either independently or as part of Denmark)
Plus I don't think island countries fully need to be on islands. I always used the definition "An island country is a country that has more land on islands than on a mainland."
Haiti is probably the most guessed after Cuba because it's the easiest name of Caribbean countries, easy to remember and to write down. And since it is last on the list, who knows, maybe Dominican republic is 11th. Well, 12th, since Dominica is always auto-filled when typing out DR.
Also, Haiti gets a lot of 'press' since it's the poorest country in the Americas, it has suffered devastating natural disasters in recent years (earthquakes and hurricanes), and it has attracted the attention of a recent US President - who's comments include language that's not allowed in JetPunk comments.
No, the island country of Haiti. aka the country (called Haiti) that is entirely located on island(s), just like every one of these other answers, including the #1 and #3 most guessed which also share their islands with other countries.
It's very interesting to compare the accuracy of quiz-takers on the quiz this is based on versus this one. Funny how some percentages go up and some go down, while others stay the same.
Not really. The original quiz stats are based on people guessing island countries. The stats for this quiz are based on people guessing what other people guess the most.
I didn't answer this quiz based on the island countries I know, I based my answers on what countries I thought most people would know.
Well in a way, it does have a land border, via a causeway. I've driven over it. In these quizzes manmade causeways like here, and man-made islands like Passport Island, are quietly ignored. Therefore you can argue either way about whether Singapore and Bahrain are "island" nations. No problems with this quiz though, because they both score too low to appear anyway.
It's generally considered a continental landmass. It sounds semantic, but otherwise, Africa (for example) could be considered an island since it's surrounded by water on all sides (if you count the Suez).
Is the UK an island? I thought it was Great Britain. Is Japan an island? The islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and Okinawa. Is New Zealand an island? The islands are North Island and South Island. That's selective of you only complaining about Haiti hahaha
The quiz is clearly not about islands names but names of countries in islands.
It's not even agreed upon by everyone how many continents there are, never mind where their borders are. At least Jetpunk is fairly consistent with itself
Traditionally the continents that are most often described are Nth and Sth America, Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia and Europe (7 in total)
Geologicallly Europe and Asia are the same continent but in the last decade a seventh geological continent i.e.
the only other "continent" in the south pacific (and the earth) is Zealandia which apparently meets all the criteria for a continent and would be very obviously one if most of it wasn't submerged. As the name suggests its main visible land mass is New Zealand from where it runs north as far as New Caledonia coming very close to Australia off Queensland
Many of the discussions and arguments I see on this site seem to involve this subject. People using different parameters arguing with eachothers. One says it belong to it because it is on the same plate, the other say it isnt, because it is outside the agreed borders. It is like people arguing about different things.
Hope this comment didnt get too messy/chaotic
I didn't answer this quiz based on the island countries I know, I based my answers on what countries I thought most people would know.
The quiz is clearly not about islands names but names of countries in islands.
Otherwise Indonesia wouldn't make it to the list.