CONTINENTS AND

COUNTRIES
CONTINENT The most widely accepted one says that
a continent is defined as a large,
continuous, discrete mass of land, ideally
separated by an expanse of water.
 7 CONTINENTS OF THE WORLD
The widely recognized all the 7 continents are listed by size below, from biggest to
smallest.

1. ASIA  2. AFRICA  3. NORTH

includes 50 countries,
and it is the most
populated continent, the
60% of the total
population of the Earth
live here.
3. AUSTRALIA 4. SOUTH AMERICA
 includes 14 countries.  comprises 12 countries.
It is the least populated Here is located the largest
continent after forest, the Amazon
Antarctica, only 0.2% of rainforest, which covers
the total Earth 30% of the South America
population live here. total area.
comprises 54 countries. AMERICA
It is the hottest  includes 23 countries led
continent and home of by the USA as the largest
the world's largest economy in the world.
desert, the Sahara,
occupying the 25% of
the total area of Africa.
5. ANTARCTICA  6. EUROPE
is the coldest continent in  Comprises 51 countries. It is
the world, completely the most developed
covered with ice. There are economically continent with
no permanent inhabitants, the European Union as the
except of scientists biggest economic and political
maintaining research union in the world.
stations in Antarctica.
 Continents By Area From Largest To Smallest
# Continent Area (km2) Area (mi2)
1 Asia 44,579,000 17,212,000

2 Africa 30,370,000 11,726,000

3 North America 24,709,000 9,540,000

4 South America 17,840,000 6,890,000

5 Antarctica 14,000,000 5,405,000

6 Europe 10,180,000 3,930,000

7 Australia 8,600,000 3,320,000

 Continents By Population From Largest To Smallest
# Continent
Population Prospects
Population May 2020 2050
1 Asia 4,637,747,800 5,351,916,300

2 Africa 1,337,887,000 1,850,475,700

3 Europe 747,598,300 700,676,200

4 North America 591,693,100 662,334,900

5 South America 430,463,100 509,254,300

6 Australia 42,632,000 49,423,700

no permanent
7 Antarctica population
no data
 ASIA Afghanistan
 

 Armenia  Iran
 Iraq
Pakistan
 
includes 50 independent  Azerbaijan   Palestine
 Israel
countries and occupies the  Bahrain  Japan  Philippines
eastern part of the single  Bangladesh  Qatar
 Jordan
 Bhutan  Kazakhstan  Saudi Arabia
Eurasian landmass.  British Indian Ocean  Singapore
Surrounded by the Arctic Territory  North Korea  Sri Lanka
Ocean from the north, by the  South Korea
 Brunei  Kuwait  Syria
Pacific Ocean from the east  Cambodia  Republic of China
 Kyrgyzstan
and by the Indian Ocean from  People's Republic of  Laos  Tajikistan
China  Thailand
the south, it is separated from  Christmas Island  Lebanon  East Timor
Africa by Suez Canal. The  Macau
 Cocos (Keeling)  Malaysia  Turkey
Mediterranean Sea and the Islands  Turkmenistan
 Maldives
Black Sea separate Asia from  Cyprus  Mongolia  United Arab Emirates
Europe, farther the overland  Georgia  Uzbekistan
 Hong Kong  Burma  Vietnam
border runs through the   Nepal
 India  Oman  Yemen
Caucasus Mountains, the  Indonesia
Caspian Sea, the Ural River,
and the Ural Mountains. 
  Åland Islands
EUROPE  Albania
 Andorra
 Austria
 Guernsey
 Hungary
 Iceland
 Netherlands
 Norway
 Poland
 Belarus  Ireland  Portugal
Europe is a unique  Belgium  Isle of Man  Romania
continent, which is not  Bosnia and  Italy  Russia
Herzegovina  Jan Mayen  San Marino
surrounded by water  Bulgaria  Jersey  Serbia
from all directions and  Croatia  Latvia  Slovakia
 Czech Republic  Liechtenstein  Slovenia
has an overland border  Denmark  Lithuania  Spain
with neighboring Asia.   Estonia  Luxembourg  Svalbard
 Faroe Islands  Macedonia  Sweden
 Finland  Malta  Switzerland
 France  Moldova  Ukraine
 Germany  Monaco  United Kingdom
 Gibraltar  Montenegro  Vatican City
 Greece
 Algeria Madagascar
AFRICA Angola
Benin
Botswana
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Surrounded by water from Burkina Faso Mauritius
all directions, Africa is a Burundi Morocco
Cameroon Mozambique
continent with clearly Cape Verde Namibia
Central African Republic Niger
defined borders. In the Chad Nigeria
north it is separated from Democratic Republic of Congo Reunion
Republic of Congo Rwanda
Europe by the Cote d’Ivoire Sao Tome and Principe
Mediterranean Sea, in the Djibouti Senegal
Egypt Seychelles
northeast, is separated Equatorial Guinea Sierra Leone
Eritrea Somalia
from Asia by the Suez Ethiopia South Africa
Canal and farther by the Gabon South Sudan
Gambia Sudan
Red Sea. Ghana Swaziland
From the east and Guinea Tanzania
Guinea Bissau Togo
southeast, it is surrounded Kenya Tunisia
Lesotho Uganda
by the Indian Ocean, from Liberia Zambia
the west by the Atlantic Libya Zimbabwe
Ocean.
 NORTH
AMERICA  Anguilla
 Netherlands Antilles
 Nicaragua
surrounded by the  Dominican Republic
 Antigua and  Panama
Arctic Ocean from the  El Salvador
Barbuda  Puerto Rico
north and by the  Greenland
 Aruba  Saint Kitts and Nevis
 Grenada
Atlantic Ocean from  Bahamas  Saint Lucia
 Guadeloupe
the east, by the Pacific  Barbados  Saint-Pierre and
 Guatemala
 Belize Miquelon
Ocean from the west  Haiti
 Bermuda  Saint Vincent and
and south. It has an  Honduras
 British Virgin Islands the Grenadines
overland border with  Jamaica
 Canada  Trinidad and Tobago
 Martinique
South America  Cayman Islands  Turks and Caicos
 Mexico
continent, which runs  Costa Rica Islands
 Montserrat
 Cuba  United States
along the state  Navassa Island
 Dominica  United States Virgin
boundary between Islands
Panama and Colombia
 SOUTH
AMERICA
It is surrounded by the
 Argentina  French Guiana
Pacific Ocean from the  Bolivia
west, by the Atlantic  Brazil  Guyana
Ocean from the east and  Paraguay
north, by the Caribbean  Chile  Peru
Sea from the northwest  Colombia
and connected with North  Ecuador  Suriname
America in the northeast  Uruguay
part. An overland border  Falkland  Venezuela
between two continents Islands
stretches along the
Panama-Colombian state
boundary.
 AUSTRALIA/OCENIA  Niue
 American Samoa  Norfolk Island
 Australia  Northern Mariana
The smallest continent in the world,
 Christmas Island Islands
called Australia and Oceania, is  Cook Islands  Palau
surrounded by the Indian, Southern and  Fiji  Papua New
Pacific Oceans. It includes the entire  French Polynesia Guinea
Australian mainland, such big islands as  Guam  Pitcairn Islands
New Zealand, Tasmania, New Guinea  Kiribati  Samoa
(only its eastern half), and many  Marshall Islands  Solomon Islands
 Micronesia  Tokelau
thousands of tiny, tropical islands of
 Nauru  Tonga
Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia  New Caledonia  Tuvalu
regions, scattered throughout the South  New Zealand  Vanuatu
Pacific.  Wallis and Futuna
 ANTARTICA
. 
Antarctica, the southernmost continent Antarctica is not a country: it
and site of the South Pole, is a virtually has no government
uninhabited, ice-covered landmass. Most and no indigenous population.
cruises to the continent visit the Antarctic
Peninsula, which stretches toward South
America.