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The Oceans

The Earth's surface if roughly 70% water and 30% land.

The Earth is also called the Water Planet.

The 4 Oceans are :-

  • Pacific
  • Atlantic
  • Indian
  • Artic.

The Continents

The Earth's total land area is divided geographically into seven continents :-

  1. Asia
  2. Africa
  3. North America
  4. South America
  5. Antartica
  6. Europe
  7. Oceania

Islands

The Earth's 10 largest islands are :-

  1. Greenland
  2. New Guinea
  3. Borneo
  4. Madagascar
  5. Baffin
  6. Sumatra
  7. Honshu
  8. Great Britain
  9. Victoria
  10. Ellesmere

Mountains

The highest mountain peak in each continent :-

  • Asia
  • Africa
  • North America
  • South America
  • Antartica
  • Europe
  • Oceania

There are more than 100 mountain peaks over 7000 m high in Asia, mainly in the Himalayas.

Everest 8848m
K2 8611m
Kanchenjunga 8598m
Lhotse 8511m
Yalung Kang 8502m
Makalu 8481m
Dhaulagiri 8172m
Manaslu 8153m
Cho Oyu 8153m
Nanga Parbat 8126m


 
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