This Is Kirk! wrote:I would think trying to say Hawaii is part of the "Americas" would be controversial. Is French Guiana "European" because it's owned by France? IMO, Hawaii is pretty clearly not part of the Americas.
I hadn't thought of that, but the French Guiana comparison is not apt. If you had to pair Hawaii with
some continent, it would be North America. Hawaii is closer to North America than any other continent. While I would agree that Hawaii might not be in "the Americas" by some definitions of that term, if you define the Americas as the North and South American continents and their associated islands, as most reference sources do, then Hawaii is clearly in.
Also Oahu is not a city.
Yeah, I pointed that out in my post. I guess I meant Honolulu. Which has a population of under a third of a million. So, Oahu would have been a dumb response. In my defense, I didn't stick with it.