Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:48:18 +0300 From: Aiet Kolkhi <aiet@qartuli.net> Message-ID: <8010616791.20041101194818@qartuli.net> | Is there any rule that would let us decide whether a country is purely | Asian or Europian one? The first thing to say is that we really don't decide (others do), so continuing this discussion here is a waste of time really. But to follow your line or reasoning, you'd need to conclude that the US and Canada are European, as are Australia and New Zealand, and perhaps South Africa. While Georgia, being close to, and perhaps straddling, the geographic divide between Europe and Asia is a case where arguments can be made that seem to make sense, in those others, you simply can't - neither Australia nor the US is Eurpoean for any sense that matters here (which is simply to divide up the list of zones so there aren't too many in any one directory). kre