Information is scattered. As all of you (or it's just limited with me), the confusion in arranging the thoughts and the information flow is a strenuous process for me too. Just to win over it, I think, channelling it in a different way will help us in the long run.
Lack of a proper base is the real trouble maker. To get a strong base, rather than talking about all the continents, countries, states, towns, villages, etc., it's better to work on them one-by-one. It will make the effort worthy. We'll start with the continents.
A continent is nothing other than a mass of land significantly larger than an island, completely or nearly surrounded by ocean water. What we have heard/learned all throughout these years that there are seven continents. But, like us, it seems the geographers are also confused about the number of continents. Geographers in the United States commonly recognize seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. The former states of the USSR and Japan have some grudges on the Asians, I guess. According to them there are only six continets, where they have combined Europe and Asia (Eurasia). The Latin Americans and some of the Europeans including the Greeks have combined North America and South America into the one and only America, thereby keeping the number of continents to six. Whereas in some other parts its just five continents combining the North and South Americas and Europe and Asia. It'll not just end here. There are other people who loves brevity who have combined North and South Americas and Africa, Europe and Asia (Afro-Eurasia).
There are lots of confusions about the same. Since we are already confused about a trillion other things, let's stick to the seven continent thing. So, for You and I, there are SEVEN continents. Okay? What more to say? Emmm.... A blog post without a picture is not quite interesting, right? So, let's have a picture here and let it guide us to the direction of those seven continents. Let the picture speak for the time being.
Lack of a proper base is the real trouble maker. To get a strong base, rather than talking about all the continents, countries, states, towns, villages, etc., it's better to work on them one-by-one. It will make the effort worthy. We'll start with the continents.
A continent is nothing other than a mass of land significantly larger than an island, completely or nearly surrounded by ocean water. What we have heard/learned all throughout these years that there are seven continents. But, like us, it seems the geographers are also confused about the number of continents. Geographers in the United States commonly recognize seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. The former states of the USSR and Japan have some grudges on the Asians, I guess. According to them there are only six continets, where they have combined Europe and Asia (Eurasia). The Latin Americans and some of the Europeans including the Greeks have combined North America and South America into the one and only America, thereby keeping the number of continents to six. Whereas in some other parts its just five continents combining the North and South Americas and Europe and Asia. It'll not just end here. There are other people who loves brevity who have combined North and South Americas and Africa, Europe and Asia (Afro-Eurasia).
There are lots of confusions about the same. Since we are already confused about a trillion other things, let's stick to the seven continent thing. So, for You and I, there are SEVEN continents. Okay? What more to say? Emmm.... A blog post without a picture is not quite interesting, right? So, let's have a picture here and let it guide us to the direction of those seven continents. Let the picture speak for the time being.
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