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Continent Land area Population km 2 sq mi % of world 2021 (estimate) % of world; Earth: 149,733,926 57,812,592 100% 7,909,295,151: 100% Asia: 44,614,000 17,226,000 29.8% 4,694,576,167: 59.4% Africa: 30,365,000 11,724,000 20.3% 1,393,676,444: 17.6% North America: 24,230,000 9,360,000 16.2% 595,783,465: 7.5% South America: 17,814,000 6,878,000 11 ...
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This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. Entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which includes sovereign states and dependent territories .
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- Asia, the Largest Continent. Asia is by far the largest continent in the world, spanning 17.2 million square miles (44.6 million square kilometers). Being the largest geographically also puts Asia at an advantage population-wise, as having 4.6 billion of the world's 7.7 billion-person population.
- Africa. Africa is No. 2 on both lists: population and size. In area, it spans 11.6 million square miles (30 million square kilometers). Its population is estimated at 1.3 billion.
- North America. North America is where area and population diverge in their rankings because this continent's population is not growing as fast as Asia's.
- South America. South America is the fourth-largest continent, spanning 6.9 million square miles (17.8 million square kilometers). It is fifth on the world population list, with 431 million people living there.
It is a continent in the seven continent system. In other systems, it is part of Asia, Eurasia or Eurafrasia. Below is the list of fully sovereign or de facto countries that are indisputably either entirely or partially situated within Europe.
A continent is a large area of the land on Earth that is joined. There are no strict rules for what land is considered a continent, but in general it is agreed there are six or seven continents in the world, including Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania (or Australasia ), [1] and South America. [2] [3] Statistics.
