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Continents
- EuropeWhere does Europe end? Its border has been redrawn for more than two thousand years.
- South AmericaSouth America's Paraguayan War left Paraguay without 60 percent of its people. It took almost six years.
- AsiaThe name Asia is believed to come from Assuwa, a Bronze Age name for part of northwestern Anatolia.
- AfricaNobody fully agrees where the name Africa comes from. Ideas include a Berber word for cave and a Latin word for sunny.
- North AmericaNorth America is named for an Italian explorer who never reached its northern lands.
- Australia (continent)About 18,000 BC, Tasmania and New Guinea were joined to mainland Australia. Lower seas made one land called Sahul.
- AntarcticaNo one saw Antarctica until 1820, and no confirmed landing happened until 1895. It is the fifth-largest continent.
- ContinentDepending on which boundaries you accept, the world has as few as four continents or up to seven.
- ZealandiaZealandia lies roughly 94 percent underwater, hidden beneath the Pacific Ocean in Oceania. Satellite imagery shows that this mass of continental crust is almost as large as Australia. Most people have never heard of it, because the parts…
- Indian subcontinentCitizens of Pakistan and Bangladesh increasingly see the phrase Indian subcontinent as offensive.