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O CEANIA ( S EVENTH L ARGEST C ONTINENT) 1.   Area: 2,967,909 sq. miles or 7,686,884 sq. kms. 2.   Population: 38,304,000 (2013). 3.   Highest Point: Mount Kosciusko, New South Wales (7,310 feet or 2228 metres above the sea level). 4.   Lowest Point: LakeLake Eyre (South Australia) (50 feet or 15 m below the sea level). 5.   Sovereign States: Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Mmarshall Island, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu. 6.   Dependencies: Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Northern Terrotory, Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Norfolk Island.

E UROPE ( S IXTH L ARGEST C ONTINENT) 1.   Area: 4,000,000 sq. miles or 10,400,000 sq. kms. 1.   Population: 742,452,000 (2013). 2.   Highest Point: Mount Elbrus (Russia) (18,356 feet or 5595 meters). 3.   Lowest Point: Shore of Caspian sea (92 feet or 28 meters below sea level). 4.   Chief Mountain Ranges: Alps, Apennines, Balkans, Carpathians, Caucasus, Pyreneese, Sierra, Nevada, Thames, Volga. 5.   Lakes: Caspian sea, Ladoga. 6.   Islands: Balearic Island, British Isles, Corsia, Crete, Faeroe Island, Ireland, Malta, Sardinia, Sicily. 7.   Countries: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sw

A NTARCTICA ( F IFTH L ARGEST C ONTINENT – W HOLLY C OVERED W ITH I CE). 1.   Area: 5,500,000 sq. miles or 14,200,000 sq. kms. 2.   Population: 4490 (2013). 3.   Highest Point: Vinson Massif (Ellsworth Mountain) (16,066 feet or 4897 meters). 4.   Lowest Point: Sea level. 5.   Mountain Ranges: Antarctic, Peninsula, Ellsworth, Prince Charles, Transantarctic, Whitmore It is the worlds highest, coldest and emptiest continent. The ice sheet overlaying the continent represents about 90% of the world glacier ice.

S OUTH A MERICA ( F OURTH L ARGEST C ONTINENT) 1.   Area: 6,895,000sq. miles or 17,858,000 sq. kms. 2.   Population: 406,740,000 (2013) 3.   Highest Point: Mount Aconcagua, Argentina, (22,831 feet or 6,956 meters). 4.   Lowest point: Valdes Peninsula, Argentina, (131 feet or 40 meters below sea level). 5.   Mountain Ranges: Andes, Brazilian, Highlands, Guinea Highlands. 6.   Famous Rivers: Amazon, Madeira, Magdalena, Orinoco, Paraguay, Parana, Pilcomayo, Purus, San Francisco, Uruguay. 7.   Famous Lakes: Maracaibo, Mirim, Poopo, Titicaca. 8.   Deserts: Atacama, Patagonia. 9.   Countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela. 10.                    Dependencies: Falk land Islands (British), French Guinea (France).

N ORTH A MERICA ( T HIRD L ARGEST C ONTINENT) 1.   Area: 9,361,791 sq. or24,247,039 sq. kms. 2.   Population: 355,361,000 (2013). 3.   Highest Point: Mount McKinely, Alaska (20,320 feet or 6194 meters). 4.   Lowest Point: Near Badwater in Death Valley (282 feet or 86 meters). 5.   Mountain Ranges: Alaska, Appalachian, Cascade, Rocky, Sierra Madre, Sierra Nevada. 6.        Famous Rivers: Arkansas, Colorado, Columbia, Fraser, Mackenzei, Mississippi, Missouri, Nelson, Ohio, Rio Grande, St. Lawrence, Yukon. 7.   Lakes: Athabasca, Erie, Great Bear, Great Salt, Great Slave, Huron, Michigan, Nicaragua, Ontario, Superior, Winnipeg. 8.   Deserts: Chihuahuan, Colorado, Great Basin, Mojave, Painted, Sonoran, Vizcaino, Yuma. 9.   Important Waterfalls: Niagara, Ribbon, Silver Strand, Takakkaw, Yosimite. 10.                    Islands: Cuba, Green land, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Newfoundland, Puerto Rico, Vancouver. 11.                    Countries: Antigua

A FRICA ( S ECOND L ARGEST C ONTINENT) 1.   Area: 11,724,300 sq. miles or 30365,700 sq.kms. 2.   Population: 1,110,635,000 according to 2013 survey. 3.   Highest Point: Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (19,340 feet or 5,895 meters). 4.   Lowest Point: Lake Assal, Djibouti (512 feet or 156 meters below sea level). 5.   Chief Mountain Ranges: Ahaggar, Atlas, Drakensberg, Ruwenzori, Tibesti. 6.   Important Rivers: Congo, Limpopo, Niger, Nile, Orange, Zambezi. 7.   Important Lakes: Albert, Chad, Nyasa, Tanganyika, Turkana, Victoria. 8.   Deserts: Kalahari, Namib, Sahara. 9.   Countries: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cote d Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mo

ASIA (WORDS LARGEST CONTINENT) 1.   Area: 17,139,445 sq. mile or 44,391,162 sq. kms. 2.   Population (2013): Total population of Asia according to 2013 survey is 4,298,723,000. 3.   Highest Peak: Mount Everest is the highest point of Asia which is 29,035 feet or 8,848 meters high. 4.   Lowest Point: Lowest point is Dead sea which is 1310 feet or 399meters below sea level. 5.   Chief Mountain Ranges: The chief mountain ranges of Asia are Altai, Elburz, Himalaya, Hindu Kush, Karakoram, Kunlin, Qilian, Qin Ling, Stamovoy, Tain Shan, Yablonovyy and Zagros. 6.   Important Rivers: Some important rivers of Asia are Amur, Brahmaputra, Euphrates, Chang (Yangtze), Ganges, Indus, Irrawaddy, Lena, Mekong, Menam, Ob, Salween, Tigris, Xi, Yenisei. 7.   Deserts: The deserts of Asia are Gobi, Karakum, Kyzil Kum, Rab al-khali, Taklimakan, Thar. 8.   Countries: Countries situated in Asia are Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, East Tim