Photoshop Elements Organizer: What is the procedure to follow step by step to split a catalog of 30,000 images in 3 smaller catalogs?

Photoshop Elements Organizer:
For example : I have pictures taken on 6 continents all stored in the same catalog and I want to create one catalog for each continent (Africa, Asia, etc).
How to proceed?
Thanks

Use tags instead of splitting the catalog. There is no built-in procedure to split catalogs.

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