The names of the seven continents of the world are: Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, North America, South America, and Antarctica. All the continents of the world start and end with the same alphabet if you consider North and South Americas as one continent.

How are the 7 continents divided?

Today we divide the world into seven continents: North America and South America are two separate continents linked by an isthmus; across the Atlantic Ocean sits Africa, a large continent straddling the Equator; separated from Africa by the Mediterranean Sea, Europe is, in fact, a peninsula, extending westward from the

Are there 7 continents or 8?

By most standards, Earth has seven continents – Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America. A group of geologists believes we should recognize an eighth.

One of the first men to challenge this was Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer and cartographer who argued that the lands were a separate continent. Ultimately the continents would go onto bare Vespucci’s name when it became clear that it was a separate landmass.