Continent Has a Larger Mass Of Land.

Names of the seven continents.

#	Continent	Population (2020)	Area (Km²)	Density (P/Km²)	World Population Share
1	Asia	4,641,054,775	31,033,131	150	59.54%
2	Africa	1,340,598,147	29,648,481	45	17.20%
3	Europe	747,636,026	22,134,900	34	9.59%
4	North America	592,072,212	21,330,000	28	7.60%
5	South America	430,759,766	17,461,112	25	5.53%
6	Australia/Oceania	43,111,704	8,486,460	5	0.55%
7	Antarctica	0	13,720,000	0	0.00%

Continent, one of the larger continuous masses of land, namely, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia, listed in order of size. (Europe and Asia are sometimes considered a single continent, Eurasia.)

There is great variation in the sizes of continents; Asia is more than five times as large as Australia. The largest island in the world, Greenland, is only about one-fourth the size of Australia. The continents differ sharply in their degree of compactness. Africa has the most regular coastline and, consequently, the lowest ratio of coastline to total area. Europe is the most irregular and indented and has by far the highest ratio of coastline to total area.

The continents are not distributed evenly over the surface of the globe. If a hemisphere map centered in northwestern Europe is drawn, most of the world’s land area can be seen to lie within that hemisphere. More than two-thirds of the Earth’s land surface lies north of the Equator, and all the continents except Antarctica are wedge shaped, wider in the north than they are in the south.