How many continents are there, seven, six, or even fewer? The answer depends on who you ask. In this video, we explore the surprising debate over the number of continents on Earth, revealing how ...

With information on capitals, years of independence, political developments, and other details on each country, the map below features the array of life that is South America. Next: Argentina ...

The first of three maps "visualizing the progress of President-Elect Herbert Hoover around South America appears this week in TIME. The Hoover Odyssey is chronicled in National Affairs. Lands ...

That is understandable — feeling like [map of South America] is not the most relatable feeling in the world — although 22,000 Twitter users (and counting) saw fit to retweet this little one ...

This 1912 map uses the Mercator projection, which inflates the size of land near the poles such that Greenland appears to be the same size as South America when in fact it is only one-eighth as ...

Find out more about the continent of South America with this KS1 primary geography guide from BBC Bitesize. ... Map of South America. ... Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall.

But some of the first known world maps put south at the top as a matter of course. For example, in 1154 Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi drew a south-up map of Europe, Asia and northern Africa ...