Area: 23 million km2 (8 876 000 mi2) Population: 728 million Highest Point: 1. El’brus in Russia, (5 642 m/18 510 ft); 2. Mont Blanc, France-Italy: 4 807m (15 771 ft). Largest Lake: Lake Balaton Hungary, largest lake of Central Europe, 592 km2. Longest Rivers: 1. Volga (3,690 km (2,293 miles), 2. Danube 2850 km [...]

The “continent” of Australia/Oceania is a somewhat artifical construct, designed to link together the continental landmass of Australia with the huge number of widely scattered islands across the Pacific Ocean. Area: 8 600 000 km2 (3 300 000 mi2) Population: 35 million Highest Point: Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid 4884 m/16 023 ft), Papua Province, Indonesia [...]

Area: North America (Canada, USA): 20 000 000 km2 (7 700 000 mi2); Central America and the Caribbean: 20 720 000 km2 (8 000 000 mi2); South America: 17 900 000 km2 (6 900 000 mi2) Population: 929 million North America: 344 million (Canada and USA); Central America and the Caribbean (incl. Mexico): 195 million; [...]

Africa is the second-largest continent in the world in both area and population. Area: about 30 244 000 km2 (11 700 000 mi2) including its adjacent islands it covers about 20 percent of Earth’s total land area. Population: 1,030 million human inhabitants, about 20 percent of the world’s population. Highest Point: Mount Kilimanjaro – Uhuru [...]

Asia is the largest continent in the world in both, area and population, constituting nearly one-third of the landmass, lying entirely north of the equator except for some Southeast Asian islands. It is connected to Africa by the Isthmus of Suez and borders Europe (part of the same landmass) along the Ural Mountains and across [...]