Grade Fiji
Grade Fiji
what continent does australia belong to?
i asked my teacher when i was in grade 6 if all countries had to be part of a continent and she said yes so then i asked about australia, new zealand, fiji etc and she didnt know but found me a map showing them as All One continent
then today in YEAR 8 HUMANITIES my teacher told us we were part of ASIA?!?!?! i dont mean that offensively to any1 but i dont think that's true!
can anyone plz give me a list of all countries in australia? also what about all of those small but beautiful islands near us?
and what is the proper, official name of our continent? oceania? australiasia? australia? pacific??
sorry, i no this is a lot but its not only for skool but personal interest! thanks!! 
Australia is a both a country and a continent. It is in fact the worlds smallest continent. Not all countries have to be a part of a continent. After all a continent is just a really large land mass. There are many smaller islands and island groups that are not a part of a continent yet are countries. The confusion probably comes from the old word - Australasia - which meant an entire region consisting of the Australian continent and the many islands of the South Pacific Region. Australia is definitely not a part of Asia. Asia is both a continent and a region north of Australia. Your teacher is probably confusing this because of the Asia-Pacific region which includes Oceania (the modern way of calling the Australasia region) Asia and other countries that border the pacific rim.
In short - Australia is the only country that is also a continent. Australia is a part of a larger region called Oceania (or Australasia) that includes the Pacific islands. The proper name for our continent is Australia, the same as the name of the country.
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