The document summarizes the seven continents of the world: Africa, Americas, Antarctica, Asia, Australia/Oceania, and Europe. It provides key details about each continent's area, population, highest point, largest lake, and longest river. The continents are differentiated as large, continuous land masses on Earth, with two-thirds of the continental land located in the Northern Hemisphere.

1. The Continents of the World
Africa, the Americas, Antarctica, Asia, Australia together with
Oceania, and Europe are considered to be Continents.
The term continent is used to differentiate between the various
large areas of the earth into which the land surface is divided.
So, a continent is "a large, continuous area of land on Earth". All
continents together constitute less than one-third of the earth's
surface, that means more than two-thirds of the earth's surface
are covered with water.
Two-thirds of the continental land mass is located in the
Northern Hemisphere.
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2. Africa is the second-largest continent in the world in
both area and population.
Area: about 30 244 000 km2 (11 700 000 mi2) including
its adjacent islands it covers about 20 percent of Earth's
total land area.
Population: 1,030 million human inhabitants, about 20
percent of the world's population.
Highest Point: Mount Kilimanjaro - Uhuru Peak on the
volcano Kibo, 5 895 m (19 340 ft) in Tanzania.
Largest Lake: Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza; 68 870 sq.
km.
Longest River: Nile; 6 695 km.
Languages of Africa: about thousand languages classified
in four major language families:
Afro-Asiatic (e.g. Berber lang), Nilo-Saharan, Niger-
Congo (Bantu), and Khoi-San.

3. Countries of the Americas and the Caribbean
Area: North America (Canada, USA): 20 000 000 km2 (7 700 000 mi2);
Central America and the Caribbean: 20 720 000 km2 (8 000 000 mi2);
South America: 17 900 000 km2 (6 900 000 mi2)
Population: 929 million
North America: 344 million (Canada and USA); Central America and the Caribbean
(incl. Mexico): 195 million; South America: 391 million.
Highest Point: Aconcagua, 6959 m (22,831 ft), Mendoza, Argentina.
Largest Lake: Lake Superior, surface area 82,000 km2 (32,000 mi2), larger than
Panama.
Longest River: Rio Amazonas (Amazon), 6 296 km (3 912 mi), South America.
Languages of the Americas: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, various
native Indian languages, French patois, and Creole.

4. Countries of Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world in both, area and population, constituting
nearly one-third of the landmass, lying entirely north of the equator except for some
Southeast Asian islands. It is connected to Africa by the Isthmus of Suez and borders
Europe (part of the same landmass) along the Ural Mountains and across the Caspian
Sea.
Area: about 49 700 000 km2 (19 189 277 mi2) it covers about 60 percent of Earth's total
land area.
Population: more than 4 billion human inhabitants (4,157 million), about 60 percent of
the world's population. Seven out of ten of the most populated countries are in Asia
(2010).
Highest Point: Sagarmatha (Chomolungma; known as Mount Everest) 8848m (29 028 ft)
Nepal.
Largest Lake: Caspian Sea (salt lake) 371 000 km2 (143 250 mi2),
Ozero Baykal, Lake Baikal 31 500 km2 in Siberia is the world's largest freshwater lake by
volume.
Longest River: Yangtze (Yángzî Jiang, or Chang Jiang (simplified Chinese: 长江)
China, 6380 km (3 964 mi).
Languages of Asia:
Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Russian, Thai, Turkic, Vietnamese and
other.

5. Countries of Australia and Oceania
The "continent" of Australia/Oceania is a somewhat artifical
construct, designed to link together the continental landmass of
Australia with the huge number of widely scattered islands across the
Pacific Ocean.
Area: 8 600 000 km2 (3 300 000 mi2)
Population: 35 million
Highest Point: Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid 4884 m/16 023
ft), Papua Province, Indonesia
Largest Lake: Lake Eyre, Australia (if there is some water)
Longest River: Murray-Darling river system 3750 km (2300 mi)

6. Countries of Europe
Area: 23 million km2 (8 876 000 mi2)
Population: 728 million
Highest Point: 1. El'brus in Russia, (5 642 m/18 510 ft);
2. Mont Blanc, France-Italy: 4 807m (15 771 ft).
Largest Lake: Lake Balaton Hungary, largest lake of Central Europe, 592 km2.
Longest Rivers: 1. Volga (3,690 km (2,293 miles), 2. Danube 2850 km (1770
miles)
Languages of Europe: English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish,
Portuguese, Nordic Languages, East European languages.
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