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ChrisHB Sep 2017 9:53am, 15 Sep 2017 15,315 posts	0 ChrisHB If it is a "historical and cultural construct" then there is nothing clear about where the dividing line should be.
GlennR Sep 2017 10:05am, 15 Sep 2017 30,530 posts	0 GlennR Entirely true, Chris, but Israel is separated from Africa by the Red Sea, and it would be a very long stretch to imagine it might be in Europe.
Dvorak Sep 2017 10:10am, 15 Sep 2017 14,225 posts	0 Dvorak You've been watching too much Eurovision, Chris.
McGoohan Sep 2017 10:13am, 15 Sep 2017 31,084 posts	0 McGoohan Where Australia is in Europe...
Night-owl Sep 2017 10:17am, 15 Sep 2017 29,445 posts	0 Night-owl Was going to say its the fault of the BBC
ChrisHB Sep 2017 10:28am, 15 Sep 2017 15,316 posts	0 ChrisHB I would have said Africa if asked, but it isn't something I've ever thought about enough to check.
GregP Sep 2017 11:02am, 15 Sep 2017 95,930 posts	0 GregP Ditto Saudi, Yemen and the whole peninsula (if that be the right word) - I'd just mentally lumped it in with Africa.
mulbs Sep 2017 11:10am, 15 Sep 2017 13,186 posts	0 mulbs I didn't know Turkey was in Asia - does that make me a buffoon?
mulbs Sep 2017 11:11am, 15 Sep 2017 13,187 posts	0 mulbs . . . or Cyprus . . .
GregP Sep 2017 11:18am, 15 Sep 2017 95,934 posts	0 GregP I thought famously you could argue for Turkey being Asia, Europe or Africa. Crossroads of the world and all that.