eli5 i cannot grasp how oceania and australia works

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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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“Continents” are defined arbitrarily. Oceania or Australia could be defined as a continent depending on who’s defining it. By typical definitions, Oceania is the region that contains the continent of Australia as well as many other islands, but this isn’t the only definition.