Montenegro (Crna Gora, Црна Гора) - Podgorica.Kosovo** - Pristina (Serbia continues to maintain its sovereignty claim over Kosovo.Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina) - Sarajevo.Belgium ( Dutch: België, French: Belgique, German: Belgien) - Brussels.Below is the list of fully sovereign or de facto countries that are indisputably either entirely or partially situated within Europe. In other systems it is part of Asia, Eurasia or Eurafrasia. It is a continent in one of the seven continent systems and the seven continent system. Sri Lanka - Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte (administrative), Colombo (commercial)Įurope is the second smallest continent, but the third most populous.Russia - Moscow (Russia is a part of Asia geographically, but, politically, it is a part of Europe).Asia consists of forty-nine countries as per the United Nations along with many other highly autonomous regions and disputed areas that are often generalised as countries of their own. There is a massive rift valley and a huge mountain range, both of which are covered at present.Īsia is the largest and most populous continent and is a continent in the seven continent system. The huge Lake Vostok has been covered by ice for at least 15 million years. There are important geographical features covered by the ice. However, there is a large part where the ice does not cover land: the ice shelves. For comparison, Antarctica is nearly twice the size of Australia.Ībout 98% of Antarctica is covered by ice. At 14,000,000 square kilometres (5,400,000 square miles), it is the fifth-largest continent. It contains the geographic South Pole and is in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle. Western Sahara (Listed in Sl No.53 above /*Africa*/) is not a UN Member as on Īntarctica is Earth's southernmost continent. Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) - Yamoussoukro.Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) - Kinshasa.Cameroon (also spelled Cameroun) - Yaoundé.It is thought to be the continent where the first humans evolved. There are 54 fully recognized and independent countries in Africa, and 14.7% (1.216 billion) of the world's population lives there. It is surrounded by large areas of water. With 1.3 billion people as of 2018, it accounts for about 16% of the world's human population. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area, accounting for about a fifth of the world's land. The list below follows the seven continent system and predominantly includes only U.N member states unless otherwise stated.Īfrica is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent. Additionally certain highly autonomous first level administrative divisions fall under the definition of the word country. However, there are many more constituent, de facto and self-proclaimed independent states that are typically added to that list. The minimum answer is the 193 United Nations member states. There is no universally accepted answer as to how many countries in the world there actually are. The most common system used varies from country to country. As Antarctica has no permanent population it isn't uncommon for it to be removed from these classification systems. The only variable in these systems is Antarctica. The five continent system is applying Eurasia and The Americas together, all other continents remain the same.įinally the four continent system is the same as the prior, however Africa joins Eurasia to become Afro-Eurasia, leaving only Oceania and Antarctica as separate continents. There are two versions of the six continent system, one merging Europe and Asia to create Eurasia, and the other merging North and South America to create The Americas The six continent system is essentially the same as the seven continent system, the only difference being two continents are merged. The first continent system is the seven continent system consisting of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania/ Australia, North America, South America and Antarctica. There are multiple continent classification systems in use. This article consists of a list of countries by continent, along with their capitals. JSTOR ( January 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged or removed.įind sources: "List of countries by continents" – news Please help improve this article by adding reliable sources. This article needs more sources for reliability.
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