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This list divides the world using the seven-continent model, with islands grouped into adjacent continents. Variations on are noted below and discussed in the following articles: Continent , Boundaries between the continents of Earth , and List of transcontinental countries .
This is a list of continental landmasses, continents, and continental subregions by population. For statistical convenience, the population of continental landmasses also include the population of their associated islands .
Personifications of continents (7 P) Supercontinents (6 C, 9 P) Theoretical continents (2 C, 5 P) A. Africa (28 C, 6 P) Americas (15 C, 3 P) Antarctica (18 C, 1 P ...
However, it was still not uncommon for American atlases to treat them as one continent up until World War II. [117] From the 1950s, most U.S. geographers divided the Americas into two continents. [117] With the addition of Antarctica, this made the seven-continent model.
The United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides 248 countries and territories in the world into six continental regions, 22 geographical subregions, and two intermediary regions. [1] It was devised by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) based on the M49 coding classification. [2]
A continent is a large geographical region defined by the continental shelves and the cultures on the continent. [1] In the modern day, there are seven continents. However, there have been more continents throughout history. Vaalbara was the first supercontinent. [2] Europe is the newest continent. [3]
As a name for a part of the known world, it is first used in the 6th century BC by Anaximander and Hecataeus. [18] The weakness of an etymology with εὐρύς ( eurus ), is 1. that the -u stem of εὐρύς disappears in Εὐρώπη Europa and 2. the expected form εὐρυώπη euryopa that retains the -u stem in fact exists.
(Notes: Dependencies and islands remote from continental land masses [vague] are not considered and are excluded from this list section; thus only continental land borders are considered. The only countries listed either straddle continents or are on a continent border.)