Eurasia See also Eurasian Plate , Asia , Africa-Eurasia , Eurasia ( Nineteen Eighty-Four ) , and Australasia . The neutrality of this article is disputed . Please see the discussion on the talk page . Eurasia African-Eurasian aspect of Earth Eurasia is the landmass composed of Europe and Asia . Mostly in the eastern and northern hemispheres , Eurasia can be considered a supercontinent , part of a supercontinent of Africa-Eurasia , or simply a continent . In plate tectonics , the Eurasian Plate includes Europe and most of Asia , but not the Indian subcontinent , the Arabian subcontinent , and the area east of the Cherskiy Range in Sakha . Eurasia is also used in international politics as a neutral way to refer to organizations of or affairs concerning the post-Soviet states , in particular Russia , the Central Asian republics , and the Transcaucasian republics . Europeans traditionally consider Europe and Asia to be separate continents , with the dividing line placed along the Aegean Sea , Dardanelles , Bosphorus , Black Sea , Caucasus Mountains , Caspian Sea , Ural River , and Ural Mountains , and this terminology has spread to the rest of the world . From a modern perspective , the continent with the least reason for separate recognition is Europe , and in scientific circles people generally prefer to subsume Europe and Asia into one continent , Eurasia . Jared Diamond , in his book Guns , Germs , and Steel , credits Eurasia 's dominance in world history to the east-west extent of Eurasia and its climate zones , and the availability of Eurasian animals and plants suitable for domestication . The Silk Road symbolizes trade and cultural exchange linking Eurasian cultures through history and has been an increasingly popular topic . Recent decades have brought forth a view toward a greater Eurasian history , establishing genetic , cultural , and linguistic relationships between European and Asian cultures of antiquity , which had long been thought of as distinct . Eurasia was first circumnavigated by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld in 1878 -79 . Other uses Eurasia is also a fictional country in a number of established and comtemporary works . A Eurasia comprising approximately the same land area as the landmass itself in George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four ( excluding the British Isles ( controlled by Oceania ) and Eastasia , the latter of which was formed , as the novel says , by an alliance of the states of the region , being the most important couple China and Japan after a 'decade of confused fighting' ) . India was a contested border zone between Eurasia and Oceania and was the most famous state involved . In Robert A. Heinlein 's story Solution Unsatisfactory , written in 1940 , he described a future 1945 ( now to be considered an Alternative History ) in which the Soviet Union is transformed into `` The Eurasian Union '' . In S.M. Stirling 's dystopian Draka Alternative History series , the analogue to the Second World war becomes known as `` The Eurasian War '' . Somewhat similar in its geography Orwell 's scenario , the war ends with most of Eurasia - excluding the British Isles , India and South-East Asia - being conquered by the extremely oppressive Draka who literally enslaved everybody else . Eurasia is also a state or supra-national entity in numerous works of science fiction today , including books , movies , television series , and videogames . In the game universe of the Earth series ( Earth 2140 , 2150 , 2160 ) , one of the major factions was the Eurasian Dynasty . Eurasia is a large and powerful terrestrial state and member of the Earth Alliance in the Cosmic Era series of the epic anime franchise , Mobile Suit Gundam Seed . See also Wikimedia Commons has media related to : Eurasia Palearctic Laurasia , a theoretical supercontinent joining Eurasia and North America . 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