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Maps of present-day countries and dependencies. This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries, the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
In geology, a continent is defined by continental crust, which is a platform of metamorphic and igneous rock, largely of granitic composition. Continental crust is less dense and much thicker than oceanic crust, which causes it to "float" higher than oceanic crust on the dense underlying mantle.
World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
A map of North America's physical, political, and population characteristics as of 2018. North America is a continent [b] in the Northern and Western Hemispheres. [c] North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean.
For the modern definitions, see continent. The four continents, plus Australia, added later. Europeans in the 16th century divided the world into four continents: Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. [ 1 ] Each of the four continents was seen to represent its quadrant of the world—Africa in the south, America in the west, Asia in the east, and ...
The continental boundaries are considered to be within the very narrow land connections joining the continents. The remaining boundaries concern the association of islands and archipelagos with specific continents, notably: the delineation between Africa, Asia, and Europe in the Mediterranean Sea; the delineation between Asia and Europe in the ...
Transcontinental country in Europe and Asia, classified as an Eastern European country by the United Nations Statistics Division: Russia (North Asia). States mostly or entirely in West Asia, but commonly associated with Europe, and a member of the Council of Europe: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, and Turkey.
Asia (/ ˈeɪʒə / ⓘ AY-zhə, UK also / ˈeɪʃə / AY-shə) is the largest continent [ note 1 ][ 10 ][ 11 ] in the world by both land area and population. [ 11 ] It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometers, [ note 2 ] about 30% of Earth 's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area.