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-a continent is 1 of several ‘very large land-masses’ on ‘earth’–
(7?)
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(ordered from ‘largest’ –> ‘smallest’ in size…)
*ASIA*
*AFRICA*
*NORTH AMERICA*
*SOUTH AMERICA*
*ANTARCTICA*
*EUROPE*
*AUSTRALIA*
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(‘continents’ are generally identified by ‘convention’ rather than any ‘strict criteria’, up to 7 regions are commonly regarded as ‘continents’)
(in ‘geology’, areas of “continental crust” include regions covered with water)
(islands are frequently grouped with a neighboring continent to divide all the world’s land into ‘geopolitical regions’)
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(under this scheme, most of the ‘island countries’ (+ ‘territories’) in the “pacific ocean” are grouped together with the continent of ‘australia’ to form a ‘geo-political region’ called “oceania”)
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