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1 day ago · Europe, second smallest of the world’s continents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia (the great landmass that it shares with Asia) and occupying nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area.
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2 days ago · Africa, the second largest continent (after Asia), covering about one-fifth of the total land surface of Earth. The continent is bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the east by the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, and on the south by the mingling waters of the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
1 day ago · Asia (/ ˈ eɪ ʒ ə / ⓘ AY-zhə, UK also / ˈ eɪ ʃ ə / AY-shə) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. 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.
3 days ago · Americas, the two continents, North and South America, of the Western Hemisphere. The climatic zones of the two continents are quite different. In North America, subarctic climate prevails in the north, gradually warming southward and finally becoming tropical near the southern isthmus.
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1 day ago · 001 – World. 1990s CIA political map of the Americas in Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection. The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, [5] [6] [7] are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. [8] [9] [10] The Americas make up most of the land in Earth 's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World.
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