@budsofstone @Em @raf OK, you may be factually correct, the question then would be "if you cannot call what we now call 'Europe' as such, how would you call it?"
West-Asia? That is already taken.
Trans-Ural Asia?
What would be the advantage of use these names over just using what we use now, the name "Europe" ?
And let's face it. Living in a part of the world that actually has the same name as one of the few other places in the Solar System that might harbor life. How cool is that!!!!
@kristoff @Em @raf the advantage of declaring Europe no longer a separate continent would be scientific accuracy, and a deconstruction of self aggrandizing white supremacist ideology pushed by said area.
And Europa is only named that is because Simon Marius, was German and there for believed too be more intelligent by Europe than Persian astronomers that discovered it before him.
The area doesn't need a special name. Its on the Asian tectonic plate. But could very easily be called western asia.