World Continental Map

WORLD CONTINENTAL MAP

7 continents of the world

The widely recognized all the 7 continents are listed by size below, from biggest to smallest.

• ASIA includes 50 countries, and it is the most populated continent, the 60% of the total population of the Earth live here.
• AFRICA comprises 54 countries. It is the hottest continent and home of the world's largest desert, the Sahara, occupying the 25% of the total area of Africa.
• NORTH AMERICA includes 23 countries led by the USA as the largest economy in the world.
• SOUTH AMERICA comprises 12 countries. Here is located the largest forest, the Amazon rain forest, which covers 30% of the South America total area.
• ANTARCTICA is the coldest continent in the world, completely covered with ice. There are no permanent inhabitants, except of scientists maintaining research stations in Antarctica.
• EUROPE comprises 51 countries. It is the most developed economically continent with the European Union as the biggest economic and political union in the world.
• AUSTRALIA includes 14 countries. It is the least populated continent after Antarctica, only 0.2% of the total Earth population live here.