The world is basically divided in seven broad regions known as continents. Continents are understood to be large, continuous, discrete masses of land, ideally separated by expanses of water.
List of Continents
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Asia Asia is the world's largest with area of 43,820,000 sq km and most populous continent having 60% of total world population. |
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Africa Is second largest continent having 30,370,000 sq km area and account 14% of total population. |
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Europe Europe covers only 2% of Earth surface by covering about 10,180,000 square kilometres. Europe is the third-most populous continent with 11% of the world's population. |
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North America North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers and is the third-largest continent and the fourth in population. |
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Oceania / Australia Australia is the smallest of all and lowest-lying human-inhabited continent. It covers 9,008,500 sq km and about 1% of world population. |
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South America South America has an area of 17,840,000 square kilometers. It ranks fourth in area and fifth in population. |
| Antartica Is the coldest and driest continent having area of around 9,008,500 sq km. Virtually no part of human population lives here, there are just about 1000-2000 odd population. |