{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.eurasia","code":"thing-q5401","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q5401/","name":"Eurasia","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.3","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.PLC"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"The largest continuous landmass on Earth, comprising Europe and Asia, bounded by the Arctic, Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans and conventionally divided along the Urals, the Caspian and the Caucasus; Eurasia holds about 70 percent of the world population, is treated as one continent in geology and in some geographic traditions, and the term is also used in geopolitics for the region and its integration projects.","purpose":"Let an agent describe Eurasia as a landmass and region, relay geographic, demographic and geological facts with 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