The 7 Contenents

Asia

• The world's largest and most populous continent.
• With approximately 4.3 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current population.
• China and India have a combined poplulation of 2.5 Billion People, making up over 35% of the worlds population in just 2 Asian countries.
• The coast was home to some of the world's earliest known civilizations, The civilizations in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and the Huanghe may well have exchanged technologies and ideas such as mathematics and the wheel.

Europe

North America

The Swaminarayan Akshardham Temple in Delhi India, the World’s Largest Comprehensive Hindu Temple.

The Himalayan range is home to some of the planet's highest peaks and is located across a large portion of the Asian Continent.

Europe

North America

• Europe is the world's 2nd smallest continent by surface area, covering about 3,930,000 square miles.
• Europe is the third-most populated continent with a population of 733 million.
• Russia is by far the largest by both area and population, taking up 40% of the continent.
• A hominid (humanoid) discovered on this continent dates the history of Europe back to over 1.8 million years ago.

• This continent is located in the North West Hemisphere.
• Most of the continent's land area is claimed by: Canada, the United States, and Mexico, but other smaller states exist.
• North America is the third-largest continent
• There were many groups of Native Americans who lived on the continent, starting in the 16th and 17th centuries Europeans began to arrive.
• Credit for discovery is often given to Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci.
• Mexico is the largest city on this continent.

Maps of Europe throughout History

Current Map of North America

Map of North America From 1641

A medieval T and O map from 1472 showing the division of the world into 3 continents

Europe 1648

Europe 1890

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England. Studies suggest that the first stones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC

Current Map of Europe

Asia

Africa

• Africa is the 2nd Largest and 2nd most populated Continent.
• Cairo Egypt is the largest city on this Continent.
• Africa has 54 fully recognized countries, 9 territories and two independent states.
• Greek and Roman people began to explore africa in 300BC.
• The many different climates in Africa (everything from tropical to arctic) helps Africa be a great home for a huge variety of wild animals.
• Islam is the largest religion in Africa.

Cairo Egypt: The most poplulated City in Africa

This is called the Point of no Return

The place where many Africans were placed on slave ships in Benin Africa.

This is Lucy, a human skeleton guessed to have lived 3.2 million years ago that was discovered in 1974 in Africa

Africa

South America

• South America is the 4th largest continent.
• Sao Paulo Brazil is the largest city in this Continent.
• Most South Americans Speak Spanish or Portuguese.
• There are many Native South Americans living on this Continent, as well as large numbers of people from Europe, Africa and Asia who started to arrive in the 1400's.

The Andes are the world's longest continental mountain range and are located in South America.

Dividing the South American Continent throughout history.

Australia

Present

Iguazu Waterfall In Brazil

• The smallest of the seven continents.
• Humans first populated the continent about 45,000 years ago, a founding population estimated to have been at least several hundred.
• Was joined with Antarctica as part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana until the plate began to drift north about 96 million years ago.
• Has a population of about 36 Million people.

Australia

Australia was explored by many different european explorers throughout the years.

Kangaroo

Koala

There are several animals that live on the Australian continent because of it's climate and vegetation.

Dingo (wild dogs)

South America

The 7 Continents

Antarctica

• The continent that is the furthest south and contains the South Pole.
• Fifth-largest continent, about 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice that averages at least 1 mile thick.
• The Antarctic Treaty was signed in 1959 by 12 countries. The treaty prohibits military activities and mineral mining, prohibits nuclear explosions and nuclear waste disposal, supports scientific research, and protects the continent's ecozone. 49 countries have now signed the treaty.

Map of Antarctica from the bottom of the world.

The ceremonial South Pole surrounded by the flags of the Antarctic Treaty signatory Countries.

Antarctica