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

Continents have inconsistent definitions. Sometimes they are “Continguous (connected) areas of land above a certain arbitrary size”, sometimes they’re related to the tectonic plates, sometimes they’re just useful groupings of countries that are close together, and sometimes they’re what people learned from playing Risk.

Here’s a video that goes through it.