Listening to an Iranian official describe his region as “West Asia” got me wondering if the word “Middle East” is on the outs and why. I suspect Middle East is eurocentric for some reason, but West Asia also preserves Europe as a continent, which is Eurocentric in its own way because Europe is not a continent and never was. If we’re calling anything West Asia, it should be Spain and Portugal.
No, the concept of continents is entirely cultural and historical, and what constitutes a continent differs highly from country to country.
Some has the Americas count as three continents, some two and some one for example. None is more correct than the other, because it all depends on where you are from.