Continent of the World and Their countries.

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The following are the continent of the world:

Africa
A Roman term Africa terra "African land", the land of Africus, the northern part of Africa, a part of the Roman Empire. The Roman name has possibly its roots in the Phoenician term Afryqah, meaning "colony", as translitered into Roman Latin.

AmericaThe name America was first used in 1507 by the Cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in its treatise "Cosmographiae Introduction" to name the New World, after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian navigator who made two (or four) trips to America with Spanish and Portuguese expeditions, it was Vespucci who first recognized that America was a new continent, and not part of Asia.

Asia
Latin and Greek origin - the "Eastern Land", it is speculated to be from the word asu "to go out, to rise," in reference to the sun, thus "the land of the sunrise."

Australia
Latin - Terra Australis incognita the " Southern Land", an imaginary, hypothetical continent, a large landmass in the south   of the Indian Ocean, the supposed counterpart of the Northern Hemisphere (see: Map of the World by Pieter van den Keere).

Europe
Latin and Greek origin. Europa, Europe, often explained as "broad face," from eurys "wide" and ops "face." Some suggests a possible semantic origin by the Sumerian term erebu with the meaning of "darkness" and "to go down, set" (in reference to the sun) which would parallel Orient.

Oceania
From the French Term Océanie, the southern Pacific Islands and Australia, conceived as a continent.

Antarctic
Old French: antartique, in Modern Latin: antarcticus, in Greek: antarktikos, from anti: "opposite" + arktikos: "of the north".
 

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