Of the seven continents, North America is the third largest by land mass and the fourth largest by population. North America consists of twenty four countries, the largest by land mass being Canada. North America is home to over five hundred million people. The most populated city in North America is Mexico City, Mexico, where there are almost nine million people currently residing.
Europe is a unique continent, which is not surrounded by water from all directions, and has an overland border with the neighboring Asia. Physio-graphically, it occupies the northwestern part of the large landmass known as Eurasia and surrounded from the north by the Arctic Ocean, from the west by the Atlantic Ocean, from the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and from the southeast by the Black Sea.
Oceania, the planet’s smallest continent, is without doubt one of the most diverse and fascinating areas on the planet. A large percentage of geography experts now consider the long-established continent of Australia to be more accurately defined as Australia/Oceania.
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