The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...

Because the world is a sphere, it is difficult to accurately project this on a two-dimensional map. When the world ... The world has seven continents and five oceans. Europe is a continent.

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...

The extraordinary map not only allows us to understand what this underwater continent looks like. It also shows how it was ...

the continent is nearly 14-and-a-half times larger. Greenland is just 2,166,086 square kilometres (sq km), whereas Africa is 30,043,862 sq km. However, flat maps show something quite different.

An incredible map shows the “true ... it accounts for about 18 percent of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest among all the continents; the median age in 2012 ...

For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental ... the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered from the sea and ...

The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea, raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for our continents and ...

Maps of the rewired world vividly show the divide ... such as the African and South American continents, are blank. When the connected world reaches those blank spots, the people in them begin ...

These new maps therefore offer further evidence that the underwater land mass should be considered the eighth continent, Mortimer added. "If we could pull the plug on the world's oceans ...

Seagrasses have been discovered in the waters off more than 150 countries on six continents ... much of West Africa was a blank spot on the world’s seagrass map. Just a handful of years ago ...

"Around the Table," a Georgetown show about food and community, delivers several delicious moments — but as a meal, it's inconsistent.