First Children's Encyclopedia by Dorling Kindersley - page 9

Our world
About a year (without stopping for a rest).
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Seven continents
North America, South America, Europe,
Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica are
Earth’s continents. Sometimes people call
Europe and Asia one continent (Eurasia).
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Arctic Ocean
An t a r c t i c a
Indian
Ocean
Pacific
Ocean
The smallest continent?
The continent of Australia is
also the world’s biggest island.
The most crowded
continent?
About 3,500
million people live in Asia.
The biggest ocean?
The
Pacific Ocean is as big as all
other oceans put together.
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The Equator is
an imaginary line
around the middle
of the world.
Southern Ocean
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