Africa and Europe: relief, hydrography, climate
africa
africa
frica is the third biggest continent
for its size followed by Asia and
America, and the second most
populated in the world. Its
population represents 17% of the
world population.
The average height of Africa is 600 meters above sea level, and it does not have,
like other continents, extremely high zones and other low ones, because plateaus
predominate.
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africa
By size and population,
Europe is the penultimate
continent of the world; only
Oceania is smaller. With 10.5
million km2, including its
adjacent islands, it covers 2%
of the surface of the earth and
6.8 of its total emerged. Its
population of 788.9 million
represents a little less than
11% of the world population.
Europe has a very limited coastline profile. Europe is sometimes described
as a peninsula of peninsulas. A peninsula is a piece of land surrounded by water
on three sides. Europe is a peninsula of the Eurasian supercontinent and is
bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and
the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas to the south