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This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories of the world by continent, displayed with their respective national flags, including the following entities: By association within the UN system: The 193 United Nations member states (UN).
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Continents may be defined as "large, continuous, discrete masses of land, ideally separated by expanses of water." However, some of the seven most commonly recognized continents are identified by convention rather than adherence to the ideal criterion that each be a discrete landmass, separated by water from others. Likewise, the criterion that eac...
Early concepts
The first distinction between continents was made by ancient Greek mariners who gave the names Europe and Asia to the lands on either side of the waterways of the Aegean Sea, the Dardanelles strait, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus strait, and the Black Sea. The names were first applied just to lands near the coast and only later extended to include the hinterlands. Ancient Greek thinkers subsequently debated whether Africa (then called Libya) should be considered part of Asia or a third par...
European discovery of the Americas
Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the West Indiesin 1492, sparking a period of European exploration of the Americas. But despite four voyages to the Americas, Columbus never believed he had reached a new continent—he always thought it was part of Asia. In 1501, Amerigo Vespucci and Gonçalo Coelho attempted to sail around the southern end of the Asian mainland into the Indian Ocean. On reaching the coast of Brazil, they sailed a long way south along the coast of South Am...
"Continent," the word
From the 1500s, the English noun continent was derived from the term continent land, meaning continuous or connected land. It was not applied only to very large areas of land. In the 1600s, references were made to the continents (or mainlands) of Kent, Ireland, and Wales, and in 1745 to Sumatra. The word continent was used in translating Greek and Latin writings about the three "parts" of the world, although in the original languages no word of exactly the same meaning as continentwas used. W...
Geologists use the term continent in a different manner than geographers, where a continent is defined by continental crust: a platform of metamorphic and igneous rock, largely of granitic composition. Some geologists restrict the term "continent" to portions of the crust built around a stable Precambrian "shield," typically 1.5 to 3.8 billion year...
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Oct 22, 2019 · Countries or Areas; No Country or Area ISO-alpha3 Code M49 Code Region 1 Region 2 Continent; 1: Afghanistan: AFG: 004: Southern Asia: Asia: 2: Åland Islands: ALA: 248: Northern Europe: Europe: 3: Albania: ALB: 008: Southern Europe: Europe: 4: Algeria: DZA: 012: Northern Africa: Africa: 5: American Samoa: ASM: 016: Polynesia: Oceania: 6 ...
NoCountry Or AreaIso-alpha3 CodeM49 Code1AfghanistanAFG0042Åland IslandsALA2483AlbaniaALB0084AlgeriaDZA012- 22 Oct 2019
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Africa. A world map showing the continent of Africa. Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. If adjacent islands are included, it covers six percent of Earth 's total surface area and 20 percent of the total land area. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Suez Canal ...
Jan 19, 2014 · Thanks for that. I memorized all the countries in order, then added extra info like what continent they are on, capitals, major historical events. Only problem for me was, I used a weird list from a website that included a lot of “countries” that are not really countries, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, “South Georgia and the South ...
List of countries by continent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, displayed with their respective national flags and capitals. This list contains: Sovereign states with general international recognition (country names listed in bold ), consisting of:
