[e-v]

I don't know if you went to a French-speaking school in Belgium, but I was told the same thing in a French school. The French "continent" certainly refers to a large mass of land and its surrounding islands [1]. Hence, the continent is Oceania rather than Australia.

[1] https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/continent/186...

[yellowapple]

That's how we learned it in middle school and beyond here in the US, but the Australia question boiled down to "yeah, technically it's an island, but are you really going to start your conversations about Australia with a bunch of quibbling around islands v. continents?".

[brewdad]

Quibbling over pedantry is what this site does best.

[judge2020]

Also "Oceania" according to ISO 3166-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

[ghostDancer]

Spain, at least at my time was the same. The Continents were Asia, Africa, America (North and South as one) , Europe, Oceania.

[ta8903]

No Antarctica? I was taught it was a continent (making 7 of them) and Wikipedia confirms it being one.

[ComputerGuru]

Funny. One America but no Eurasia ;)

[dorfsmay]

Then, by that definition, how is Europe, as opposed to Eurasia, a continent?

[ed_elliott_asc]

My children 12&9 were taught at school in the UK that Australia was in oceanana