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I was more using ‘continent’ in the geographical sense rather than the derogatory or cultural or opinion-oriented sense. Every citizen in Manhattan could detest North America and wish to be regarded as separate, but they would still be considered in geographical texts as being in North America, because they are on the North American Continental Shelf

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Continental Europe, also referred to as mainland Europe or simply the Continent, is the continent of Europe, explicitly excluding European islands.[1] Notably, in British English usage, the term means Europe excluding the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, Ireland and Iceland.