Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet CONTINENT

Definition av CONTINENT

1. kontinent, världsdel

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• They are found over much of the southern two-thirds of the African continent, avoiding areas that are mainly rocky.
• The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilizations.
• The Antarctic continent, located in the Earth's southern hemisphere, is centered asymmetrically around the South Pole and largely south of the Antarctic Circle.
• The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population.
• There are approximately 75 species in the genus, 10 of which are dioecious and native to North America, and the remaining 65 are monoecious species that are endemic to every continent (except Antarctica) from tropical lowlands to the Himalayas.
• The northern and southern temperate zones have a flora distinct from that of the continent generally, which is tropical.
• Africa is a continent comprising 63 political territories, representing the largest of the great southward projections from the main mass of Earth's surface.
• The current is circumpolar due to the lack of any landmass connecting with Antarctica and this keeps warm ocean waters away from Antarctica, enabling that continent to maintain its huge ice sheet.
• The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau, and other island territories located on the Antarctic Plate or south of the Antarctic Convergence.
• Brazil occupies most of the eastern part of the South American continent and its geographic heartland and various islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
• Canada has a vast geography that occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing a land border with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.
• Cameroon is sometimes described as "Africa in miniature" because it exhibits all the major climates and vegetation of the continent: mountains, desert, rain forest, savanna grassland, and ocean coastland.
• When Eurasia is regarded as a single continent, Europe is treated both as a continent and subcontinent.
• It forms the North American Craton (or Laurentia), the ancient geologic core of the North American continent.
• Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
• Europa (consort of Zeus), a Phoenician princess in Greek mythology, from whom the name of the continent Europe as well as the moon of Jupiter are taken.
• Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East, and the fourth-most populous on the African continent, after Nigeria, Ethiopia and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• The "Final Solution to the Jewish question" was the official code name for the murder of all Jews within reach, which was not restricted to the European continent.
• The Far East is the geographical region that encompasses the easternmost portion of the Asian continent, including East, North, and Southeast Asia.
• Goeldi's marmoset, or Goeldi's monkey (Callimico goeldii), is a small New World monkey found on the South American continent, mainly in the upper Amazon basin of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Perú.

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