Harold Porter National Botanical Garden, Western Cape, South Africa

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Harold Porter National Botanical Garden, Western Cape, South Africa. By Abu Shawka

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Africa

Africa is the second largest of the continents, three times the area of Europe. Three-quarters of the continent lies within the tropics. It features Great Rift Valley, containing most of the great lakes of East Africa; the Atlas Mountains in the northwest; the Sahara Desert (world’s largest desert) in the north; Namib and Kalahari deserts in the south; equatorial rainforest in the middle; and great rivers like Nile, Congo, Niger, Zambezi, and Limpopo.

Asia

Asia is the largest of the continents, occupying one-third of the total land surface of the world. Lying in the eastern hemisphere, Asia extends from the Arctic Circle to just over 10°S of the equator. The Asian mainland, which forms the greater part of the Eurasian continent, lies entirely in the northern hemisphere. It contains the world’s highest mountains and largest inland seas.

Europe

Europe is second-smallest continent, occupying 8% of the Earth’s surface. It lies entirely in the northern hemisphere between 36°N and the Arctic Ocean. About two-thirds of the continent is a great plain which covers the whole of European Russia and spreads westwards through Poland to the Low Countries. To the north lie the Scandinavian highlands. To the south, a series of mountain ranges stretch east-to-west (Caucasus, Carpathians, Alps, and Pyrenees).

North America

North America is the third largest of the continents (including Greenland and Central America), and over twice the size of Europe. It occupies the northern part of the landmass of the western hemisphere between the Arctic Ocean and the tropical Panama isthmus. In Canada and the USA, the Great Plains of the interior separate the Rocky Mountains to the west. These western mountains extend south into Mexico as the Sierra Madre.

Oceania

Oceania is the general term for the islands of the central and south Pacific, including Australia, New Zealand, and the eastern half of New Guinea. It stretches from the tropics in the north to the southern tip of New Zealand, Oceania can be broadly divided into groups of volcanic and coral islands. Australia (the largest island in the world) occupies more than 90% of the land surface.

South America

South America is the fourth largest of the continents, nearly twice as large as Europe (13% of the world’s land surface), extending south from Central America. Five-sixths of the continent lies in the southern hemisphere and two-thirds within the tropics. It includes the Andes mountain system, which stretches the whole length of the west coast, the equatorial Amazon rainforest—the largest rainforest in the world.