why is the continent of oceania called continent of australia in north america?

Question

everywhere else in the world it is known as oceania. why is it?

Answer 1

Semantics not geography. In ALL english usage Oceania referes to the broad GEOGRAPHIC AREA comprising the South Pacific islands of which the CONTINENT of Australia is one.

Answer 2

Islands are usually considered to belong geographically to the continent they are closest to. The Coral Sea and South Pacific islands may be associated with Australia/Australasia to form the "continent" of Oceania (though the Pacific islands without Australia are also called Oceania).

Different areas of the world believe in different doctrines or ideologies about how many continents there actually are.

Answer 3

Oceania is the collective name for the islands of the various island groups in the South Pacific.

The name Australia (used everywhere in the English-speaking world) is from the Latin "Australis" meaning "Southern". Australia was the southern continent mariners were looking for in the 1600's and 1700's..

Answer 4

Some people from the US refer to themselves as American, and some people believe that New Zealand were in Austalia (from Latin australis, in the southern). It is a use per synecdoche, which means, a part of something is used for the whole. The term oceania contrasts this ambiguity.

Answer 5

Not that to say to you, but I suppose that they call it this way because practically the whole continent includes a country.

Regards and thanks for your question.

Answer 6

potato, patato
tomato, tamato
its just one of those things