Continents

The edge of land that borders an ocean is called the coastline.

Syria is part of the continent of Asia, specifically in the region called "the Middle East." "Southwest Asia" is also being slowly adopted as a more politically-correct alternative for the term "Middle East." Syria is very close both to North Africa and south-eastern Europe, but is not part of Africa or Europe. This is because the internationally accepted demarcation of the border between Asia and Africa is the Suez Canal; and the demarcation between Asia and Europe runs through the Urals and the Dardanelles, making Syria an Asian country.

The Indo-European language family (which includes such languages as Spanish, English, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, German. and French) is to be found in all the inhabited continents of the world.

Europe
Europe

Australia is both a country and a continent, but it does not fit the geographical definition of an island.

Being surrounded by water, it is classed as an island continent, but not an island.

Florence (Firenze) is in Italy, which is on the European continent.

Continents are defined by geological features such as tectonic plates. There are seven continents based on these features and their separation by oceans. This classification has been historically recognized and is commonly used for geographical and demographic purposes.

In Greek mythology, Europa was a Phoenician princess who was abducted by Zeus in bull form and taken to the island of Crete, where she gave birth to Minos, Rhadamanthus and Sarpedon. For Homer, Europe (Greek: Εὐρώπη Eurṓpē; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was a mythological queen of Crete, not a geographical designation. Later Europa stood for mainland Greece, and by 500 BC its meaning had been extended to lands to the north. In etymology one theory suggests the name Europe is derived from the Greek words meaning broad (eurys) and face (ops) - broad having been an epithet of Earth itself in the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion; see Prithvi (Plataia). A minority, however, suggest this Greek popular etymology is really based on a Semitic word such as the Akkadian erebu meaning "sunset", cognate to Arabic maghreb, Hebrew ma'ariv. (see also Erebus). From the Middle Eastern vantage point, the sun does set over Europe, the lands to the west. Likewise, Asia is sometimes thought to have derived from a Semitic word such as the Akkadian asu, meaning "sunrise", and is the land to the east from a Middle Eastern perspective. For centuries, the Turks used the term Frengistan (land of the Franks) in referring to Europe. The majority of major world languages use words derived from "Europa" to refer to the continent - e.g. Chinese uses the word Ōuzhōu (歐洲), which is an abbreviation of the transliterated name Ōuluóbā zhōu (歐羅巴洲).

North America and South America are the two continents in the Western Hemisphere.

The Philippines is located in the continent of Asia.

Europe, Asia and North America are in the Northern Hemisphere

Africa is in both Hemispheres

South America, Australasia and Antarctica are in the southern hemisphere

Europe is the continent located in all four hemispheres: Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western hemispheres.

Lake Huron is located in North America.

All of them: North and South America, Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa, and Antartica.

When you are at the North Pole, the only direction you can go is south. So this makes every continent south of the North Pole.

The first continent is believed to be Pangaea, which existed around 300 million years ago. Pangaea eventually broke apart due to tectonic plate movements, leading to the formation of the continents we know today.

Africa - 30,300,000 sq km Antarctica - 14,000,000 sq km approx Asia - 44,700,000 sq km Australia - 7,686,850 sq km Europe - 9,940,000 sq km North America - 24,360,000 sq km South America - 17,770,000 sq km

-- Europe and North America are entirely in the northern hemisphere.

-- Australia and Antarctica are entirely in the southern hemisphere.

-- Asia, Africa, and South America are partly in each.

Yes, Europe does, Its 15 or so yellow stars on a blue background. (The number has changed based on the number of members in the European Union.) This is the flag set for the European Union. Australia has a country flag which also serves as its continental flag. Antarctica has a few flags, the principle one being a sky blue flag with the white continental shape of Antarctica. Africa's flag is represented by the African Union flag, a green flag with a white stripe in the middle and a yellow image of Africa in the middle of the white stripe. South America recently adopted a white flag for Unisal, the South American Union. Only Asia and North America lack continental flags.

More mountain ranges. There are really 3 major mountain ranges on each continent. ex: North America - Rockies, Canadian Rockies, and Appalachians. Where as there are only 7 continents.

South America is the closest continent to Antarctica.
The continent closest to Antarctica is the tip of South America, about 600 miles across the Drake Passage -- sometimes called the wildest water on earth. South America (Also, Antarctica is a continent)

Asia is the biggest continent in terms of both land area and population. It covers about 30% of the Earth's total land area and is home to over 4.5 billion people.

Europe is almost entirely in the northern ANDWestern hemisphere.

Only North and South America are almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. (Only Alaska's Aleutian Islands extend into the eastern hemisphere.)

By technical definition, parts of Europe, Africa, and Antarctica are in the western hemisphere, as well as islands in New Zealand.

Haiti is situated in the Caribbean which is a sub-region of the North American continent.