Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...

The continent is also a country - but there are often misconceptions about the region it's a part of and how it's defined.

Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...

One sunny spot in the southern hemisphere is both the smallest continent in the world and a country in its own right.

If you went to school in the US or the UK, you probably learned that there are seven continents. But that number really depends on where you grew up. Elsewhere, you probably learned that there are ...

While Britain, Argentina, Australia, Norway, France, New Zealand and Chile have long held territorial claims over the vast ...

A 2017 study revealed what happened to Earth's 'hidden continent' which remained missing for over four centuries ...