Continent

A continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, with up to seven regions commonly regarded as continents. These are (from largest in size to smallest): Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. In geology, areas of continental crust include regions covered with water.

Definitions and application

By convention, "continents are understood to be large, continuous, discrete masses of land, ideally separated by expanses of water." Many of the seven most commonly recognized continents identified by convention are not discrete landmasses separated completely by water. The criterion "large" leads to arbitrary classification: Greenland, with a surface area of 2,166,086 square kilometres (836,330 sq mi) is considered the world's largest island, while Australia, at 7,617,930 square kilometres (2,941,300 sq mi) is deemed the smallest continent.

The Earth's major landmasses all have coasts on a single, continuous world ocean, which is divided into a number of principal oceanic components by the continents and various geographic criteria. The definitions of continents are sometimes extended beyond the major landmasses, in a way that every bit of land on earth is included in a continent.

The Continent (film)

The Continent (Chinese: 后会无期) is a 2014 Chinese road trip comedy film directed and written by Han Han. The film was released on July 24, 2014.

This movie was produced by Beijing Lorry Limited, Hangzhou Guomai Media Limited, and Bona Film Group Limited. Han Han, the famous youth author in China mainland, is this movie’s screenwriter and director. Bolin Chen and William Feng are the leading roles. This movie is talking about several young men who lived in an island which is located in East Sea have planned a journey to across the China mainland, and the experiences they have gone through finally decided the ends of their destinies.

The filming process was started on Feb. 14, 2014. The movie team had found views from five places, which were Shanghai, Xichang, Chifeng, Mount Putuo in Zhoushan, and Dongji Island. It was finished on May 26, 2014. One of the leading roles, William Feng, was injured when the filming process was nearly finished. On July 24, 2014, the movie was shown in China mainland.

Continent (disambiguation)

A continent is a large landmass.

Continent may also refer to:

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