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The best part of this exercise is the presumption that one corner of Africa isn’t part of Africa but rather the Middle East.
It’s arbitrary borders all the way down.
If you go down that route, the outer borders are of currently existing countries. "Middle east" doesn't have precise borders and the answer of where it is changed based on who you ask to.
To be fair, there's nowhere in name Middle East that suggests it's restricted to a specific continent
To this day I'm not entirely sure what continent Türkiye wants to be on
It’s on Eurasia like it always has been. Other than racism there’s no reason to pretend Europe is somehow a separate continent.
There's really only two continents anyway. America and Not America.
Eurasia, Africa, America, Antarctica and assorted islands
Afroeurasia, America, Antarctica, and Greater New Zealand
Continental double-dipping
Middle East is inherently a colonial term as it describes the area in respect to London, where places like India are in the Far East colonies, so these colonies are Middle Eastern.
Fully two separate continents, Northeastern Africa and Western Asia. But as far as names and identities go, Middle Eastern has stuck.