Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ... But are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe are connected. They are often called Eurasia for ...

the AuthaGraph World Map was announced as the winner of the 2016 Good Design Grand Award, one of the most prestigious design awards in Japan. It preserves the proportions of continents and oceans ...

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.

Earth has eight continents, and world maps should reflect this, geologists say. The eighth, a lost continent called Zealandia, isn't a huge landmass that geographers have somehow missed.

If you've seen a world map or travelled to Australia then you'll know just how far away it is from other continents - but ...

These seven maps and charts, visualized by The Washington Post, will help you understand how diverse other parts of the world are in terms of languages. 1. Some continents have more languages ...

A new kind of world map (above) has been developed that shows the true size of the continents without distorting their shapes too much. The world map you are probably familiar with is called the ...

A vast continent of 1.89 million sq miles (4.9 million sq km) it is around six times the size of Madagascar. Though the world's encyclopaedias, maps and search engines had been adamant that there ...

It was in this bubbling cauldron of magmatic activity that geologic forces created the world’s first continents. While geologists have narrowed down the “when” of continental formation ...