Project on earth’s CONTINENTS,SUBCONTINENTS and oceans BY TAPAN GHARAT THIRD YEAR
WHAT IS EARTH? Earth (or the Earth) is the third planet from the Sun , and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System . It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets . It is sometimes referred to as the World , the Blue Planet.
EARTH IS DIVIDED INTO 7 CONTINENTS THOSE ARE:
ON A WORLD MAP IT’S SHOWN AS
CLASSIFICATION OF CONTINENTS 1)ASIA
ASIA IS DIVIDED INTO: Central Asia Eastern Asia Northern Asia Southeastern Asia Southern Asia Western Asia
CENTRAL ASIA Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
Eastern Asia Hong Kong Japan Macau Mongolia North Korea People's Republic of China Republic of China South Korea
Northern Asia Russia
Southeastern Asia Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam
Southern Asia Afghanistan Bangladesh Cambodia East Timor India Indonesia Laos Malaysia/Singapore Myanmar
Nepal Pakistan Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Vietnam
2) Africa
SOUTH AFRICA CLASSIFIED INTO Eastern Africa Central Africa Northern Africa Southern Africa Western Africa
Eastern Africa Burundi Comoros Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Madagascar Malawi
Middle Africa Angola Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo (Brazzaville) Congo, Democratic Republic of the Equatorial Guinea Gabon Sao Tome and Principe
Northern Africa Algeria Egypt Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Morroco Sudan Tunisia Western Sahara
Southern Africa Botswana Lesotho Namibia South Africa Swaziland
Western Africa Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia
Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Saint Helena Senegal Sierra Leone Togo
3) THE AMERICAS It is further classified into: Northern America South America Central America The Caribbean
North America Bermuda Canada Greenland Saint Pierre and Miquelon United States
South America Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Falkland Islands (Malvinas) French Guiana Guyana
Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Central America Belize Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama
The Caribbean Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Barbados British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Cuba Dominica
Dominican Republic Grenada Guadeloupe Haiti Jamaica Martinique Monserrat Netherlands Antilles
Puerto Rico St. Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands Virgin Islands (US)
4) Antarctica
There are no Antarctic countries. Several countries have made territorial claims, ALTHOUGH 7 OF THEM ARE OFFICIALS WHO CLAIMS 8 TERRITORIES THOSE ARE:
British Antarctic Territory (Overseas territory of the United Kingdom) Ross Dependency (Dependency of New Zealand) Peter I Island (Dependency of Norway)
Australian Antarctic Territory (External territory of Australia) Queen Maud Land (Dependency of Norway) Chilean Antarctic Territory (Commune of Antártica Chilena Province)
Argentine Antarctica (Department of the province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica, and South Atlantic Islands)
5)Europe
Europe is divided into: Albania Andorra Belarus Bosnia Croatia European Union Faroe Islands Gibraltar
Guerney and Alderney Iceland Jersey Kosovo Liechtenstein Macedonia Man, Island of Moldova Monaco
Montenegro Norway Russia San Marino Serbia Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Vatican City State (Holy See)
However EUROPEAN UNION is divided into: Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland
France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania
Luxembourg Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia
Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom
6) Australia/Oceania
Subcontinents of australia : Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru New Zealand
Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu