'n Kontinent is 'n groot aaneenlopende landmassa wat 'n relatiewe selfstandige geheel vorm en natuurlike grense het. Die planeet aarde het die volgende kontinente (gelys volgens grootte):
- Asië (ongeveer 43 608 000 km²)
- Afrika (ongeveer 30 335 000 km²)
- Noord-Amerika (ongeveer 25 349v000 km²)
- Suid-Amerika (ongeveer 21 069 501 km²)
- Antarktika (ongeveer 13 661 000 km²)
- Europa (ongeveer 10 498 000 km²)
- Oseanië (ongeveer 9 008 458 km²)
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Aantal kontinente
Daar is verskeie maniere om die kontinente van mekaar te onderskei:
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Sien ook
Verwysings
- The World – Continents 21 Februarie 2006 op Wayback Machine, Atlas of Canada
- ↑ "Continent". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
- World, National Geographic – Xpeditions Atlas. 2006. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society.
- The New Oxford Dictionary of English. 2001. New York: Oxford University Press.
- "Continent Geargiveer 31 Oktober 2009 op Wayback Machine". MSN Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2006.
- "Continent". McArthur, Tom, ed. 1992. The Oxford Companion to the English Language. New York: Oxford University Press; p. 260.
- "Continent". The Columbia Encyclopedia. 2001. New York: Columbia University Press – Bartleby.
- "Continent". McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Earth Science (extracted from online McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology). 2005. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional; pp. 136-7.
- The Olympic symbols. 7 Maart 2008 op Wayback Machine International Olympic Committee. 2002. Lausanne: Olympic Museum and Studies Centre. The five rings of the Olympic flag represent the five inhabited, participating continents (Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania 23 Februarie 2002 op Wayback Machine); thus, Antarctica is excluded from the flag. Also see Association of National Olympic Committees: [1] 22 April 2019 op Wayback Machine [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Océano Uno, Diccionario Enciclopédico y Atlas Mundial, "Continente", page 392, 1730. ISBN 84-494-0188-7
- Los Cinco Continentes (The Five Continents), Planeta-De Agostini Editions, 1997. ISBN 84-395-6054-0