it depends how do you see it, you can consider america as conformed as two diferents continents or subcontinents (south america and North america)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Continental_models-Australia.gif

or as one
http://www.freeworldmaps.net/continents/six_continents.gif

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it depends how do you see it, you can consider america as conformed as two diferents continents or subcontinents (south america and North america)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

or as one

http://www.freeworldmaps.net/continents/...
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Is America one or two continents?

Recently, I have been reading many articles in English about different topics for improving my reading skills. One of the articles that I read, was about Antartica and the author considered it to be "the seventh continent". When I saw that, I thought there was a mistake, because all my life I've known that the Antartica is "the sixth continent". But it wasn't a mistake, it was just "another view of the world".
I found out that there are several ways of distinguishing the continents. In Latin America, we learn the six-continent model, that considers America as one continent with three subcontinents, but in most English speaking countries, people learn the seven-continent model, where America is divided into North America and South America, two different continents.
So, after all, is America one or two continents, just depends where you are from.