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Which continent has the most countries?

continent

[kon-tn-uhnt] / หˆkษ’n tn ษ™nt /


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"Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated," she wrote on X.

From Barron's โ— Oct. 31, 2026

Firstly, the continent hosts a rich diversity of medically important venomous species.

From Science Daily โ— Oct. 30, 2026

The tank in your basement is now in a bidding war with a continent.

From MarketWatch โ— Oct. 28, 2026

European natural-gas prices climbed above €97 a megawatt-hour for the first time since late 2022 as colder weather threatens to lift demand across the continent while the Iran war continues to disrupt global supplies.

From The Wall Street Journal โ— Oct. 27, 2026

To me, the lectures were gibberish, probably because for most of January, I thought Europe was a country, not a continent, so very little of what the professor said made sense.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Mountain ranges contain valuable records of Earth's distant past, preserving traces of vanished oceans, shifting continents, and the geological processes that transformed the planet over millions of years.

From Science Daily โ— Oct. 28, 2026

In the opening match of five separate tours to four different countries on three continents, England's mistakes opened the door for Pakistan's Arafat Minhas to take advantage.

From BBC โ— Oct. 20, 2026

But the storied New York house thinks going big is its best hope: in the space of four days, it commissioned dual world premiere operas on two continents.

From Barron's โ— Oct. 18, 2026

They’re continents, but they are only in maps that are very secret.

From Los Angeles Times โ— Oct. 9, 2026

In 1963, using magnetic studies of the Atlantic Ocean floor, they demonstrated conclusively that the seafloors were spreading in precisely the manner Hess had suggested and that the continents were in motion too.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson


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