What are the continental Regions?

Is named continental regions to the large areas of territory that are surrounded by the oceans, that is, to the continents. The continental regions are: Asia, Oceania, Europe, America, Africa and Antarctica.

These six big blocks o continental regions add up to a total of 150 million square kilometers, which is equivalent to 29% of the earth's surface. 71% of the remaining land area is covered by water.

The continental divide it is arbitrary (in some cultures or countries there is talk of the existence of five or seven continents), because it does not respond to the different tectonic plates of the continental regions, but to divisions geopolitics.

Although it occurs in continents such as Oceania or America, it is not a strict condition that continental regions are surrounded by oceans since, in some cases, two continents are connected by a small or medium portion of land.

Characteristics of the continental regions

Europe

Limits of continental regions

1. Europe. It is bordered by the Arctic Glacial Ocean to the north, Asia to the east, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa (via the Strait of Gibraltar) to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.
2. Asia. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Glacial Ocean, to the east by the Pacific Ocean, to the south by the Indian Ocean, to the southwest with the Red Sea and west with the African continent, with the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea and Europe.
3. Africa. It is bordered to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, to the northwest by Europe (through the Strait of Gibraltar), to the northeast by Asia (through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea). To the east it borders the Indian Ocean and to the west the Atlantic Ocean.
4. America. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Glacial Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Antarctic Glacial Ocean and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.
5. Oceania. It is bordered to the east by the Pacific Ocean, to the south by the Antarctic Glacial Ocean and to the west by the Indian Ocean.
6. Antarctica. It borders a single ocean that surrounds it; the Antarctic Glacial Ocean.

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