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 ...

Some, on the other hand, actually list eight continents. This is due to the 2017 discovery of Zealandia, a small and largely underwater continent in the Southern Hemisphere (if you’ve ever been ...

By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there are seven in all. And if you get the gist, we’re going to make a list, From biggest to small … Your kids may have come home from ...

In the era of the Cold War, the moniker 'Third World' emerged to delineate nations abstaining from alignment with either the Western bloc (NATO) or the Eastern sphere, the Communist bloc.