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General perspective
The world’s population reached over 7 billion inhabitants in 2011. In mid-2015, it
was estimated at 7,376,471,982. Asia is the most populated continent, followed by
Africa and America, which surpassed one billion inhabitants as well in 2011. The
population density does not correspond to the order by population, because although
Asia is the continent with more inhabitants per area, the one that follows is neither
Africa nor America, but Europe.
The number of continents varies according to culture and country, and this is due to
the definition of "continent". The strictest definition would be that it is a large,
continuous and separate land mass surrounded by water. With this strict criterion,
there would only be three continents, since Africa, Europe and Asia are joined
among themselves, so much that there are those who speak of an "Afro-Eurasia"
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traditions have led that in the education system, the media and even the scientific
area of each region of the world, it is taught different number of continents. In some
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Only America, Antarctica and Australia are completely separated continents. Africa
and Asia are linked by the isthmus of Suez. Europe, in the strict way, is only a
peninsula of Asia. However, by different historic and cultural reasons is considered
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