Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

you pull your kids out of school for a year, stash your stuff in storage, rent out your house, put your career on pause and set out into the wide world, bound for all seven continents as a family.

By Matt Kaplan The world ... Your kids may have come home from school singing this infectious ditty, or another like it. But are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that ...

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...