Search results
- In order from largest to smallest in area, these seven regions are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent
People also ask
What is a list of countries by area?
What are the 7 continents?
How many continents are there in the world?
What are the 4 continents of the world?
What is a continent in geography?
How many countries are in Europe?
Lists by area This page was last edited on 25 July 2021, at 21:39 (UTC) . Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0 ; additional terms may apply.
- Learn more about editing
Introduction to Wikipedia Wikipedia is made by people like...
- Create account
Create account - List of continents by area - Wikipedia
- Contributions
Contributions - List of continents by area - Wikipedia
- Talk
Talk - List of continents by area - Wikipedia
- List of countries by continents
List of countries by continents. This is a list of sovereign...
- Learn more about editing
List of countries by continents. This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories of the world by continents. Generally this includes non-sovereign territories recognized by the UN as part of any state.
Due to this, the number of continents varies; up to seven or as few as four geographical regions are commonly regarded as continents. Most English-speaking countries recognize seven regions as continents. In order from largest to smallest in area, these seven regions are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.
This is an index of a series of comprehensive lists of continents, countries, and first level administrative country subdivisions such as states, provinces, and territories, as well as certain political and geographic features of substantial area.
- Statistics
- Continents
- Origin of Continents
The most populous continent by population is Asia, followed by Africa. The third most populous continent is Europe. The fourth most populous is North America, and then South America. In sub-Saharan Africa, the largest age group are denarians (in their teens). In north Africa, the largest age group are vicenarian (in their twenties). In Europe, most...
Geologists use the term continent to mean continental crust, a platform of metamorphic and igneous rock, largely of granitic composition. Continental crust is less dense and much thicker than oceanic crust, which is why it "floats" higher than oceanic crust on the underlying mantle. This explains why the continents form high platforms surrounded by...
A craton is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere. It is the Earth's two topmost layers, the crust and the uppermost mantle. There are various hypotheses of how cratons have been formed.. Continents may have been formed by giant meteorite impacts in the first billion years of Earth's existence.The question is not yet settled. What i...
The list of countries by area is the list of the world's countries and their territories by total area. The inputs are realized according to the ISO 3166 standard which includes sovereign states and dependent territories .
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. The entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which includes sovereign states and dependent territories. All 193 member states of the United Nations plus the two observer states are ...
