Africa-Eurasia

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Categories: Continents

The supercontinent of Africa-Eurasia (or Afro-Eurasia) is the world's largest land mass and contains around 85% of the human population. It is typically subdivided into the continents Africa and Eurasia by drawing a line at the Suez Canal. Historians of the cultural materialism school may subdivide it into Eurasia-North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, based on differing agricultural systems. (See Guns, Germs, and Steel for example.)

Some geographers and historians have referred to it as Eurafrasia or Afrasia (omitting the European peninsula), although these terms have never come into general use. Sometimes it has also been referred as the World Island, especially in geopolitics.

The Old World includes Africa-Eurasia and its surrounding islands.

• Eurasia
  • Europe
  • West Asia
  • South Asia
  • Central Asia
  • Southeast Asia
  • East Asia
  • North Asia
• Africa
  • North Africa (sometimes moved to the list above)
  • West Africa
  • Central Africa
  • East Africa
  • Southern Africa

Continents and regions of the World
Image:LocationAntarctica.png Antarctica	Image:LocationAfricaEurasia.png Africa-Eurasia	Image:LocationAmericas.png Americas	Image:LocationAustralia.png Australia
Image:LocationAfrica.png Africa	Image:LocationEurasia.png Eurasia	Image:LocationNorthAmerica.png North America	Image:LocationOceania.png Oceania
Image:LocationEurope.png Europe	Image:LocationAsia.png Asia	Image:LocationSouthAmerica.png South America	Geological supercontinents : Gondwana • Laurasia • Pangea • Rodinia

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