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| CONTINENTS ( by area - sq. kms [to convert sq kms to sq miles, multiply by: 0.386] ) | ||
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Asia Africa North America South America Antarctica Europe Australia/Oceania |
44,579,000 sq km 30,065,000 sq km 24,256,000 sq km 17,819,000 sq km 13,209,000 sq km 9,938,000 sq km 7,687,000 sq km |
| CONTINENTS (by population - millions of people) |
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| 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. |
Asia Africa Europe North America South America Australia/Oceania Antarctica |
3,701 million 808 million 732 million 481 million 349 million 31 million no permanent residents |
| CONTINENTS (by the number of countries - see lists below) | ||
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Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South America Antarctica |
53 countries 47 countries 43 countries 23 countries 14 countries 12 countries 7 claimant countries (see note below) |
| Note:The United Kingdom claimed a section in 1908, New Zealand made their claim in 1923, France in 1924, Australia in 1933, Norway in 1939, Chile in 1940, and finally Argentina in 1943. Many of these claims overlapped and oddly enough, the area between 90° and 150° west went unclaimed by any nation. | ||
| AFRICA Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Rep. Chad Comoros Congo Congo (Dem. Rep.) Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe |
ASIA Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Korea (north) Korea (south) Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russian Federation Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen |
EUROPE Albania Andorra Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia-Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania San Marino Serbia/Montenegro (Yugoslavia) Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom Vatican City |
NORTH AMERICA Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Rep. El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia St. Vincent & the Grendines Trinidad & Tobago United States |
OCEANIA Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu |
SOUTH AMERICA Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela |
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