What Is The Largest Continent

Geography is one of the subjects that requires a lot of information and memory to remember so many data, definitions, names of countries, cities, rivers, geographical features, etc.

There are different criteria for dividing the earth’s surface into continents due to the definition that has been given to the word continent, scientists have not been able to agree and hence the differences. The most accepted and ancient is that the continents are five.

The continents that make up our world are Asia, Africa, America, Europe, Oceania, and Antarctica. 250 million years ago these continents formed a single mass, then due to the movements of the earth they separated, a process that lasted more than a million years.

The continents differ in their extensions, population density, variety of languages, etc. The continents represent 29% of the total surface of the earth, which is equivalent to 148,650,000 km ².

We will explain which is the largest continent, its characteristics, extension, we will compare it with the other continents and we will give you interesting facts about it.

What do you need

• Geographically locate the continents
• Maps.
• Computer with Internet connection.

Instructions

1. The continent with the largest area is Asia, it represents 8.7% of the Earth, it has an area of ​​44,000,000 km ², with a population of more than 4,000 million inhabitants, which implies a population density of 91 inhabitants per km ² and represents 61% of the world’s total population.
2. The location of the Asian continent is one half in the Northern Hemisphere and the other in the Southern Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the south by the Indian Ocean, to the east by the Pacific Ocean, and to the west by the Ural Mountains.
3. The Asian and European continents are conventionally divided for historical and cultural reasons. But geographically they are united forming a single continent: Eurasia. Also for geographical reasons, Africa would be united to Eurasia, only separated by the Suez Canal, so that the three would also form a continent called Eurafrasia together.
4. Although it is considered that the birth of humanity began in Africa, it can be ensured that civilization was born in Asia and Europe. Due to the great extension of the Asian continent, there are many different cultures that arise there.
5. The subdivisions of the Asian continent: North Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, Siberia, Southeast Asia, and Western Asia.
6. The languages ​​of the Asian continent are: Mandarin, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Russian, Bengali, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Javanese, Marathi, Turkish, French, Laotian, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish.
7. The population of the Asian continent is concentrated on the coast of the China Sea and on the Hindustani peninsula. In this area the population density can reach a thousand inhabitants per square kilometer. The largest number of births in the world occur in this area, to be more exact 70%. Most of the population is under 30 years of age with a very low rate of elderly people.

Tips

• Consult the Geography books to remove all the doubts you have about these topics, reading and seeing images activates your memory.
• Remember that it is not so important to remember data or numbers, it is much more important to know how to relate, compare or identify places.
• You can access maps in books, encyclopedias, or websites that will give you the most up-to-date data.