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

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

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

Countries with territory that spans across more than one continent are known as transcontinental or intercontinental states. The term is then split up into contiguous and non-contiguous.

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 ...

They come in all sizes, can thrive in a wide range of environmental conditions, and make themselves at home on every major ...

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

Indeed, the “Land of Mu” was first introduced to the world as a concept ... ‘The Unexplained’, one researcher said: “When it ...

A portion of the world's iciest, coldest continent is "greening" at a dramatic rate because of global warming, scientists announced in a recent study. In fact, the research showed that vegetation ...

Without Egypt, one’s understanding of the complex ... through in the “mainstream” Western art world, find their connections to the continent marginalized. “African artists who become ...

Summer vacations included Disney World in Florida and Myrtle Beach ... and completed his goal of visiting all seven continents in one calendar year. “There’s nothing like waiting until ...