+5 Yes, Puerto Rico is widely considered a colony—or often described as the world’s oldest colony—due to its status as an unincorporated U.S. territory. While residents are U.S. citizens, they lack voting representation in Congress, cannot vote for president,

  • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    12 days ago

    Here, they only count five.

    Which other two get combined or does one get wholly discarded? Like the seven I’m used to are N. America, S.America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania and Antarctica. Is Eurasia a single continent to them, does Antarctica or Australia not count, or something else?

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      10 days ago

      Eurasia counts as one continent for my students.

      But in some places, apparently they don’t count Antarctica because it isn’t populated by a permanent human civilization.