I suspect this is to prevent you from getting your first continent bonus after your first contact, though it's possible it's actually to ensure you have a choice at the start of the game while ensuring you stay within your starting continent initially. The game is willing to start you in any of the North American, African, and Asian regions, but the two-region continents are all forbidden as starts: you will never start in South America, Europe, or Oceania.
On that note, also worth noting is that your starting location is randomized, but there are fewer possibilities than you might expect. If you start in North America, whichever specific region you start in will have its connection to another continent snipped, keeping only its connections to the other North American regions. The list of possible snips is non-random, and designed to herd you toward earning your initial continent's bonus: for example, each North American region is naturally in contact with the other two North American regions and then additionally has a connection point to another continent. Instead of the game forcing you to start in one of the exceptions, such as the Australian region, it will permanently snip a connection, so your initial region only has 2 regions to contact instead of the 3 you'd expect. The primary reason I'm bothering to mention this at all is an additional wrinkle to this wrinkle is that the exact distribution of connections is not completely consistent across different runs: the game always endeavors to ensure that you have exactly 2 possible contacts at the start of the game, even though most regions naturally connect to 3 different regions.
In XCOM 2, each region has a fixed list of regions it can allow you to reach: if you start in the New Arctic region, you can't immediately contact the South American regions, for example. In the prior game, you could launch a Satellite at any funding nation in basically any order you liked.
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