The full names of all continents

Of the seven continents, the full names of all continents are: Asia (full name Asia), Europe (full name Europe), America (full name North Asia and South Asia), Africa (full name Africa), Oceania and Antarctica.

1, Asia (full name Asia)

Of the seven continents in the world, Asia has the largest area, the largest population and the oldest name. Asia is the abbreviation of "Asia Asia", which means "the place of sunrise in the East". According to legend, the name Asia was given by the ancient Phoenicians. At the beginning of the 4th century AD, people regarded the Ural Mountains as the dividing line between the two continents, and the southeast of the dividing line was called Asia, or Asia for short.

2. Europe (full name of Europe)

The full name of Europe is "Europa", which literally translates as "the place where the sun sets in the west". There are some legends about the origin of its name. In Greek mythology, Demeter was a goddess who specialized in farming activities. She endowed the world with abundant grains and prosperous people and animals. In the portrait of this goddess, people always depict her sitting on the back of a bull. This land will be named Europa after this beautiful princess.

3. America (the full name of North America and South America)

North America and South America are collectively called America, and America is the abbreviation of "America". The name America is said to commemorate a famous navigator named Amerigo Weiss Pucci in Florence. Although Columbus discovered America as early as 1492, he still believed that this continent was a part of Asia.

4. Africa (full name Africa)

Africa is short for Africa. The origin of the word Africa. There are many interesting legends. According to a legend, in 2000 BC, an ancient Yemeni chief named Afriks invaded North Africa and established a city called Afriyie there. Later, people called this large area Africa.

5. Oceania

Oceania means "land in the ocean". Generally speaking, it refers to most of the islands in the Pacific Ocean. In a narrow sense, it refers to Australia, New Zealand and Polynesia in the east of the Pacific Ocean, Micronesia in the middle and Melanesia in the west. In the past, Oceania was also called "Australia" for short, because Australia accounted for 85% of the land area of Oceania. The name of Oceania first appeared around 18 12 and was named by Danish geographer Matt Brown.

6. Antarctica

Because the continent is located around the southernmost south pole of the earth, it is named. Its English name is Antarctica, which comes from the Greek anti (in turn) plus Arctic (North Pole), which means the opposite of the North Pole, that is, the South Pole. Antarctica was discovered by French Bouvier from 1738 to 1739. When he was sailing, he found an island (now Bouvier Island) near the Antarctic continent.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Seven continents