how many continents are?
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seven 7 siete yea thats it...lol
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Total no. of countries/nations in the World: 271\n\nApart from this, there are regions that aren't really countries but just sort of "areas" under the protection of / dependent on actual countries who are near them e.g. some islands where people live and are clearly "one type of ppl" but they don't fly a flag or have a president or anything that we consider normal.
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Africa! It has many more countries!\n\nP.S. No offense, but you spelt continent and countries wrong.
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Oceania?\n\nbut that's a region made up of a lot more than 4 islands
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I was also taught that there were 7:\n\nNorth America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Antarctica, Australia.\n\nI was a student in American schools. I have also heard of the "Eurasia" concept of combining Europe and Asia.  In truth Europe and Asia are ONE continent but because of cultural and physical reasons (meaning Race), early Europeans who first listed the continents wanted to distinguish themselves from Asians and declared Europe a separate continent.
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49 continental, i.e., on the north american continent. 48 contiguous, which means that they are all next to each other on the same part of the continent. most textbooks now use the word contiguous, for clarity's sake.
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7.  North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Africa
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There are 192 member countries recognized by the United Nations, and 193 recognized by the state department of the U.S. There are currently 9 (the number is disputed) planets if you count Pluto and 8 if you don't, but that is just in our solar system. There are a lot more planets out there.
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By Most Accounts, 193 is the Correct Answer\n\nA very frequent geographical question is "How many countries are in the world?." Different numbers pop up when one inquires or reads about the number of countries in the world. Each source you use often yields a different answer.\nUnited Nations\n\nThere are 191 members of the United Nations. Unfortunately, the number 191 is too often used to represent the number of countries in the world. Although this number represents almost all of the countries in the world, there is still one country (the Vatican City) that is independent and has chosen not to become a member of the U.N.\n\nU.S. Department of State\n\nThe United States' State Department recognizes 192 independent countries around the world. \n\nTheir list of 192 countries reflects the political agenda of the United States of America and its allies. Missing from the State Department's list is one entity that may or may not be considered a country, depending on who you talk to.\nThe One Outsider\n\nTaiwan meets most of the requirements of independent country or state status. However, due to political reasons, it fails to be recognized by the United States and much of the rest of the world.\n\nTaiwan was actually a member of the United Nations (and even the Security Council) until 1971, when mainland China replaced Taiwan in the organization. Taiwan continues to press for full recognition by other countries, to become "part of the club" and fully recognized worldwide but China claims that Taiwan is simply a province of China.\n\nThus...\n\nYour Guide considers there to be 193 countries, which is probably the best current answer to the question, "How many countries are in the world?" unless Taiwan is officially absorbed into China at some point, in which case the answer would be 192.\n\nHowever...\n\nRecognize that there are dozens of territories and colonies that are sometimes erroneously called "countries" but don't count at all - they're governed by other countries. Places commonly confused as being countries include Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Greenland, Western Sahara, and even the components of the United Kingdom (such as Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England - sorry folks, they're not countries, states, or nation-states).
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The Number of Countries in the World\nFrom Matt Rosenberg,\nYour Guide to Geography.\nFREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now!\nFeb 8 2006\n\nBy Most Accounts, 192 is the Correct Answer\nA very frequent geographical question is "How many countries are in the world?." Different numbers pop up when one inquires or reads about the number of countries in the world. Each source you use often yields a different answer.\nUnited Nations\n\nThere are 191 members of the United Nations. Unfortunately, the number 191 is too often used to represent the number of countries in the world. Although this number represents almost all of the countries in the world, there is still one country (the Vatican City) that is independent and has chosen not to become a member of the U.N. so 191 is not the number of countries in the world.\n\nThe country not recognised yet is Taiwan.\n\nNeat question.
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Good question, and a tough one to answer, although I'm skeptical of the "all known criteria" piece of it.  I did browse much of the Wikipedia entry, and I also have a globe here to look at.\n\nTo rephrase this question, I guess we could say, (1) why is it not a continent, and (2) why is it a subcontinent?\n\nTraditionally, there are six or seven continents -- North & South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.  Sometimes Europe & Asia are combined into Eurasia, and some people like to combine the Americas.\n\nSize and geographic separation seem to be important ... the Central America connection is pretty narrow, as is the Suez connection.  On the other hand, the Ural mountains separating Europe from Asia is an ancient plate boundary (similar to the Appalachians, and much older than the Himalayas), and the Ural boundary certainly is not "narrow."  In that case, however, there are huge historical cultural differences between, for example, western Europe and East Asia.\n\nIn terms of size, Australia is the smallest continent, and Greenland is the largest island.  India is much closer in size to Greenland than to Australia.  (Also compare Madagascar, a large island drifting away from Africa.  The tectonic activity there is similar to India.)\n\nSo on the question of "why isn't it a continent," I'd say size matters a lot -- India isn't big enough -- and I'd say the closest boundary comparison is between the Himalaya barrier and the Urals.  West of the Urals is much, much larger than south of the Himalayas.\n\nCultural comparisons matter too, and by this measure, India could be considered a continent in its own right.  The Indian population is significantly different than the neighboring Oriental and Caucasian peoples.\n\nWhen you balance all this stuff, I guess you say Europe is its own continent -- it's big and culturally differentiable; but India is not a continent because it's not big enough.\n\nThe other part of the question is, why is it a subcontinent?  There, the Himalayas and, to a lesser extent, the Indian Plate, make a big difference.  Because of the mountains, India is geograpically separated from the rest of Asia.\n\nIt's also a large peninsula.  In this regard, we must compare with the Arabian Peninsula (which sits on the Arabian Plate), and maybe with Asia Minor, the boundary of which (by looking at a globe) may be said to extend from the Persion Gulf to the eastern end of the Black Sea, thus comprising a large area encompassing Turkey, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.  The other obvious large peninsula is Western Europe itself, bounded on the east by a line extending from the Black Sea to the Baltic.\n\nBut neither of those peninsulas have the Himalaya Mountain barrier.\n\nSo putting that altogether, I guess that's why India is a subcontinent and not a continent.  And since it seems to be the only generally recognized subcontinent in the world, that makes it pretty unique.
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Visit all seven continents.
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5 is correct, only that Australia is not a continent.\nAustralia is part of the Oceania continent, which includes New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and some other countries.\nIf you count North America and South America as separate continents, then you should count Central America and the Caribbean countries separately, which will give you 8 continents, because you can't include them whithin any of the 2 above.  By the way, guess what the 5 rings on the Olympic games flag stands for???? The 5 continents.\n\nAmerica\nEurope\nAfrica\nAsia\nOceania
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In the universe? I don't know, but on Earth:\nThere are 6800 known languages spoken in the 191 countries of the world.
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CONTINENTS OF THE WORLD \n\nCONTINENTS (by size) \n\n#1 Asia - (44,579,000 sq km) \n#2 Africa - (30,065,000 sq km) \n#3 North America - (24,256,000 sq km) \n#4 South America - (17,819,000 sq km) \n#5 Antarctica - (13,209,000 sq km) \n#6 Europe - (9,938,000 sq km) \n#7 Australia/Oceania - (7,687,000 sq km) \n\nCONTINENTS (by population) 2005 est. \n\n#1 Asia - (3,879,000,000) \n#2 Africa - (877,500,000) \n#3 Europe - (727,000,000) \n#4 North America - (501,500,000) \n#5 South America - (379,500,000) \n#6 Australia/Oceania - (32,000,000) \n#7 Antarctica - (0) \n\nCONTINENTS (by the number of countries) \n\n#1 Africa - (53) \n#3 Europe - (46) \n#2 Asia - (44) \n#4 North America - (23) \n#5 Oceania - (14) \n#6 South America - (12)
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Earth has a surface area of 196,940,400 square miles, slightly less than a perfect ball with a diameter of 7913.5 miles The surface area of the seven continents and all the islands of the world is about 57 million miles, while the total area of the six habitable continents (Antarctica excluded) is around 52 million square miles. \n\nThe human population on earth has crossed six billion. If we distribute all the exposed land evenly among all mankind, 133 people would have to share one square mile. What that means is that every single person on Earth, man woman and child would have close to five acres of land for his or her use. More precisely, each person would get 209,000 square feet of land, or a square plot of land 457 feet on each side. \n\nNot all this land can be used beneficially however. A significant portion of the Earth's exposed land is unhabitable or cannot be used for any agricultural purpose. Large portions lie in the far north. Large portions are extremely arid. Large portions are very mountainous. In sum, only about one fourth of all the land on earth, or somewhat more than 12 million square miles, is arable. \n\nToday, over half of the arable land in the world is in fact not under cultivation. Bringing the unused land into service in many cases would require huge investments of money and effort, and would do considerable damage to the environment. For example, only about 28% of the arable land on the African continent is used for growing crops. Immense tracts of forests or jungles would have to be cleared to bring the rest of the arable land on that continent to productive use. \n\nThus, only about one eighth of each imaginary plot of land distributed to each person is land which is under cultivation. In effect, each person has a piece of land about 26,000 square feet (a square 161 feet on each side or just a bit more than ½ an acre) at his or her disposal on which to grow all that he or she needs.
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earth= 5 billion, sun= 7 billion, sky ie universe= 12 billion\nmoon= 4 billion