By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ... But are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe are connected. They are often called Eurasia for ...

Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

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 ...

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 ...

It shows all seven continents, Europe ... so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years. They used to be hand-drawn to scale ...

The continent contains no countries ... Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps.

which skews our perceptions of how big continents and countries are compared to one another. When you consider square mileage though, a whole new world appears. Inspired by this map of Africa's ...