The Continents
Geography: KS3, topic 3.1.5
How Big Are The Continents?
There are seven continents on planet earth.
The 7 continents
- There are 7 continents on planet earth.
- They are: Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, North America, Oceania (or Australasia or Australia) and Antarctica.
The largest continent?
- When looking at the land area, Asia is the biggest continent.
- It is over 44 million km2.
- This is significantly bigger than Africa which is second largest.
- It is over 30 million km2.
- In comparison, the whole of Europe is only just over 10 million km2 in size.
The largest population?
- The continent with the largest population is Asia with over 4 billion people.
- This is much more than the second largest (Africa) with just over 1 billion people.
- Asia has such a large population because it contains China and India.
- Both of which have a population of over 1 billion people.
The smallest population?
- Antarctica is the continent with the smallest population.
- In fact, it has no permanent population.
- It has no indigenous population.
- The only people who ‘live’ on Antarctica are scientists visiting to do research there.
Test yourself on The Continents
How many continents are there on planet earth?
Which is NOT a continent?
The Size of the Continents