What are the seven continents?

Asia-the largest continent in the world. Asian full name. According to legend, the name of Asia was given by Phoenicians. Asia is bordered by the Pacific Ocean in the east, the Arctic Ocean in the north, the Indian Ocean in the south, the Wula River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains, the Black Sea and the Turkish Strait (Bosporus Strait and Da Daniil Strait) in the west, Africa in the southwest and North America in the northeast. The total area is 44 million square kilometers.

Europe-the full name is Europe. In Greek mythology, Europa is the goddess who specializes in farming, and she blesses the harvest of crops in the world. Out of admiration for the goddess, she used her own name as the name of the mainland. Europe faces the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the Arctic Ocean in the north, the African continent across the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar in the south, and the Asian continent in the east. Total area10160,000 square kilometers.

Africa-is the abbreviation of "Africa". Africa is the second largest continent in the world, accounting for about 1/5 of the total land area of the earth. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the Mediterranean Sea in the north, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean in the east, and the waters where the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean meet in the south.

Oceania-from Spanish, meaning "Southern Continent". With a total area of 8.97 million square kilometers, it is the smallest continent in the world. Located in the vast sea area north and south of the equator in the southwest of the Pacific Ocean. It is located between Asia and Antarctica, bordering the Indian Ocean in the west, the Pacific Ocean in the east and far away from North and South America.

America-America is short for America. The United States is located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, bordering the Arctic Ocean in the north and facing Antarctica across the Drake Strait in the south. It consists of two continents, North America and South America, and many nearby islands. Panama Canal is generally used as the dividing line between North and South America; In political geography, Mexico, Central America, West Indies and South America are collectively called Latin America, while North America only refers to Canada, the United States, Greenland, Saint Pierre, Miquelon and Bermuda. The total area is more than 42 million square kilometers.

Antarctica-the last continent that humans reached, also known as the "seventh continent". Located at the southernmost tip of the earth, the land is almost in the Antarctic circle, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the continent with the highest geographical latitude in the world. It is also the continent with the largest longitude span. The total area is about 6.5438+0.4 million square kilometers.