The document provides brief descriptions of the seven continents - Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica. It notes key features of each continent such as geographic location, inclusion of surrounding islands, largest/smallest size, and hemispheric location. The descriptions identify the basic defining characteristics of each continent.
The continent of Africa includes the Sahara Desert countries in Northern Africa, the sub-Sahara African countries, the islands close to Africa in the Indian Ocean, and the islands close to Africa in the Atlantic Ocean.
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area (or 29.9% of its land area) and with approximately 4 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population.
one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains (or the Kuma-
is the northern continent of the Americas,[4] situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and in the western hemisphere. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean,
includes only the Australian mainland, and not nearby islands such as Tasmania or New Guinea>.
It is situated in the Antarctic region of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean