Continents of the World
The six inhabited continents, mapped—with every country, computed populations and land areas, plus a plain explanation of how continents are counted.
Interactive world map
Zoom out to the whole Earth, then drill into any continent.
The live map loads the moment you reach it—keeping the page fast. Tap below if it hasn’t started.
Map tiles & data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
The six continents
Each card shows the number of countries and total population, summed from the dataset.
How many continents are there?
A continent is one of Earth’s great landmasses. There is more than one way to count them. The seven-continent model—Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Australia/Oceania—is the one most widely taught in English-speaking countries. A six-continent model is common elsewhere: some merge Europe and Asia into a single Eurasia, while others combine North and South America into a single Americas. A five-ocean model is used for the seas; you can explore it on the oceans page.
This site organises the world by the six inhabited continents that contain sovereign countries: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania. Antarctica is left out of the country listings because it has no permanent population and no sovereign states—only research stations governed by international treaty. Across these six regions sit all 197 countries on worldmap.page, home to roughly 8,003,231,794 people in total on about 133,610,437 km² of land.
By the figures on this site, Asia is the most populous continent and Asia the largest by land area. Africa contains the most countries, while South America has the fewest. Pick any continent below to open its interactive map, browse every country it contains and see computed totals for population and land area.