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    Continents are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria. A continent could be a single landmass or a part of a very large landmass, as in the case of Asia or Europe. Due to this, the number of continents varies; up to seven or as few as four geographical regions are commonly regarded as continents.

  2. In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach a billion and only 222 years more to reach 8 billion.

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  4. Jan 29, 2020 · Europe is the world's second-smallest continent by surface area, covering about 10,180,000 square kilometres (3,930,000 sq mi) or 2% of the Earth's surface and about 6.8% of its land area. Of Europe's approximately 50 states, Russia is the largest by both area and population (although the country has territory in both Europe and Asia), while ...

  5. May 30, 2023 · Template:Infobox continent. Asia ( / ˈeɪʒə / ⓘ, UK also / ˈeɪʃə /) is the largest continent [ a][ 3][ 4] in the world by both land area and population. [ 4] It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometers, [ b] about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area.

  6. Eurasia covers around 55,000,000 square kilometres (21,000,000 sq mi), or around 36.2% of the Earth 's total land area. The landmass contains around 4.6 billion people, equating to approximately 65% of the human population. Humans first settled in Eurasia from Africa, between 60,000 and 125,000 years ago. 5 6.

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › WorldWorld - Wikipedia

    The world is the totality of entities, the whole of reality, or everything that exists. [1] The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique while others talk of a "plurality of worlds". Some treat the world as one simple object while others analyze the world as a complex ...

  8. Anglospeak.svg. English is a West Germanic language which was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca. 1 2 It is spoken as a first language by the majority populations of several sovereign states, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and a number of Caribbean ...