Printable maps of North America and information on the continent’s 23 countries including history, geography facts.
Africa is the world’s second largest and second most-populous continent (the first being Asia in both categories). At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth’s total surface area and 20% of its total land area.
Description. Asia is the largest and most populous continent in the world, sharing borders with Europe and Africa to its West, Oceania to its South, and North America to its East.
Fra Mauro map outline re-oriented with North at the top. Ptolemy, he writes, like all cosmographers, could not personally verify everything that he entered on his map and with the lapse of time more accurate reports will become available.
North Asia or Northern Asia, sometimes known as Siberia, is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the Russian regions of Siberia, Ural and the Russian Far East – an area east of the Ural Mountains.
Adoration of Christ the King, detail of the map of Asia. On the southern portion of the Cathay coast, the general uniformity of the coast is broken by three bays, and it is significant that these are associated with three great ports, Zayton [near Changchow], Cansay [Hangchow, better known in medieval records as Quinsay ] and Cincolam …
Africa: Africa is the second-largest of the seven continents on Earth (Asia is the largest continent).Africa is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, the Indian Ocean on the east, the Mediterranean Sea on the north, and the Red Sea on the northeast.
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