Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents ... around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America ...

TRAVEL TRENDS, WORLD Created : Feb 10 ... and from Africa’s vast savannas to Europe’s historic cities, every continent offers something extraordinary. Let’s embark on a journey across ...

Flat maps, aimed at providing a coherent projection ... Comparing the South American country (8,515,767 sq km) to the entire continent of Europe, which dominates most of the northern hemisphere ...

and it marked the official discovery of a new continent: Antarctica. It also cemented the modern idea, upheld by most maps across the English-speaking world, that there are seven major landmasses.

"To imagine Europe and Asia as constituting equivalent 'continents' has long been recognized as the ethnocentric cornerstone of a Western, or Euro-American, world view," Chris Hann, the founding ...

The 400th anniversary passed, two world wars and the cold war engulfed Europe ... to the entire continent in 1538, others followed suit as shown in this mid-16th-century map.