By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ... But are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe are connected. They are often called Eurasia for ...

One sunny spot in the southern hemisphere is both the smallest continent in the world and a country in its own right. Spanning over 3 million square miles, Australia has just over 46 million ...

The continent contains no countries ... Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps.

For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental ... the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered from the sea and ...

Little is known about the recently discovered continent, mainly due to it being almost completely inaccessible. However, a team of geologists from all over the world have compiled a new geological map ...