Poll: Is Russia in Europe or Asia?

[theSovietConnection]

It is in both, so the for the sake of the poll, it is Eurasia.

 

[Ninjamedic]

Both....

But you was busy putting stupid things in poll to put this option.

Uh, Eurasia? I considered that the 'both' option. But you were too busy picking holes in my thread to notice.

 

[Billion Backs]

Ok lets me explain it to ya.

On this here map, we see the Ural Mountains.

Everything west of the Ural mountains is Europe.

Everything east of the Ural mountains is Asia.

Most people who are actual descendants of the Russians live in the European part(West of the Urals) of Russia(West side of it).

The Old Russian country/kingdom was only situated west of the Urals (European part of Russia).
Infact, anything that is east of the Ural mountains is pretty much conquered countries that had no russians before they were conquered.


Learn this once, and for all.

This is very off topic, but DOH, my hometown is too small to show up on this map =(

Also, what he says, really. There isn't too much content in my current post, so look above at my previous post because repeating it twice after Novskij clearly explained it would be pretty rude.

 

[medicvalues]

well hmmmm id go with euroasia but im gonna take my favorite answer valve ftw

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Both are correct since it is in both.

 

[Ninjamedic]

I'd like to thank the Russians for forgiving my geographical retardation.

 

[Undo]

Uh, Eurasia? I considered that the 'both' option.

Europe and Asia is really only one continent. So Eurasia is the only "right" choice to pick.
Politically this may be different, but then you could pick all Europe apart just the same... (and of course Russians, or Rus, seem to have been Norse folks like Vikings and such).

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

I say we give up with trying to put it in Europe or Asia and just give it it's own geographical area...

 

[Vault Citizen]

Speaking geographically Europe and Asia are part of the same contininent (Eurasia).

 

[YoUnG205]

I think it is classed as being in europe becuase the capital is in europe.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Both. The main concentration of Russians is in the European part though.

 

[Cody211282]

From what I hear, it's in both. There's European Russia and Asian Russia.

For convenience, it's usually grouped as part of Asia.

True it's in both, or you could just say it's on Eurasia because it spans so much. Eurasia could also be considered it's own continent.

 

[Ninjamedic]

From what I hear, it's in both. There's European Russia and Asian Russia.

For convenience, it's usually grouped as part of Asia.

True it's in both, or you could just say it's on Eurasia because it spans so much. Eurasia could also be considered it's own continent.

If so, what else is in eurasia?

 

[GundamSentinel]

The piece west of the Urals is in Europe, the rest is in Asia. Same with Turkey: west of the Bosporus is in Europe, the rest is in Asia. Is it really that difficult? Countries don't deal with continents.

There are as far as I can tell 6 countries with a continental divide across their soil:

Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Panama, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan

[edit] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_country

 

[MellowFellow]

eroasia (as the tectonic plate is called) if you wanna talk geology
or both if you talking politically
but most of it is in Asia

I've always considered it to be in Eurasia. That sounds cooler too.

Though what else is in eurasia?

That is a good point, I can only think of Russia being considered to be there.

 

[Ninjamedic]

The piece west of the Urals is in Europe, the rest is in Asia. Same with Turkey: west of the Bosporus is in Europe, the rest is in Asia. Is it really that difficult? Countries don't deal with continents.

Its the country as a whole that is a little confusing.

 

[Ninjamedic]

eroasia (as the tectonic plate is called) if you wanna talk geology
or both if you talking politically
but most of it is in Asia

I've always considered it to be in Eurasia. That sounds cooler too.

Though what else is in eurasia?

That is a good point, I can only think of Russia being considered to be there.

Kazakhstan (is it spelled right?) would be another possible Eurasian country.

 

[Vault Citizen]

Speaking geographically Europe and Asia are part of the same contininent (Eurasia).

Europe and Asia are continents. Eurasia is a tectonic plate, not a continent.
And I hope all the people saying Eurasia read this, Eurasia is NOT a continent or place, just the name of a plate

See?

I stand corrected.