Meridianmeridian

Continent Name

geography.location.continent

Name of geographic continent (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania, Antarctica). Locale-specific.

Domain
geography
Category
location
Casts to
VARCHAR
Scope
Locale-specific
Locales
EN, EN_AU, EN_GB, EN_CA, EN_US, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, PL, RU, JA, ZH, KO, AR

Try it

CLI
$ finetype infer -i "North America"
→ geography.location.continent

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT finetype('North America');
-- → 'geography.location.continent'
Cast expression
CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)
Safe cast pipeline
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'geography.location.continent';

JSON Schema

finetype schema geography.location.continent
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/geography.location.continent",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Name of geographic continent (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania, Antarctica). Locale-specific.",
  "enum": [
    "Africa",
    "Asia",
    "Europe",
    "North America",
    "South America",
    "Oceania",
    "Antarctica"
  ],
  "examples": [
    "North America",
    "Europe",
    "Asia",
    "Africa"
  ],
  "title": "Continent Name",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "VARCHAR",
  "x-finetype-transform": "CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)"
}

Examples

North AmericaEuropeAsiaAfrica