eli5 i cannot grasp how oceania and australia works

Question

so from what google is giving me, this is what i’ve gathered and some of it is contradictory hence why im posting here. i need this to be explained to me like i’m a five year old or i’ll never understand.

– oceania is a continent
– australia is a continent
– oceania is also australia
– but oceania isn’t a continent anymore it’s an area of the earth
– but just kidding australia is a continent inside of the continent known as oceania

W H A T ?

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Answer 1

This is fundamentally a matter of semantics. Continent does not have a rigorous scientific definition, so there is some debate about what does and does not constitute a continent.