Afro-Eurasie
Afro-Eurasie,[1] an aa Afrasie,[2] Eurafrasie[2] or Eufrasie,[3] is the lairgest landmass on Yird. It mey be defined as a supercontinent, wi the term bein a portmanteau o its constituent pairts Africae an Eurasie (further dividit intae Europe an Asie) which are jyned thegither at the Isthmus o Suez.[4] Afro-Eurasie encompasses 84,980,532 square kilometers an haes a population o approximately 6 billion fowk, or roughly 85% o the warld population.[5] It is an aa kent as the Auld Warld, as opposed tae the Americas, Antarctica an Oceanie, which are kent as the New Warld.
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| Aurie | 84,980,532 km2 |
|---|---|
| Population | 6,000,000,000 (2013) |
| Demonym | Afro-Eurasian |
| Kintras | 147 |
| Dependencies | 17 |
ReferencesEedit
- ↑ Frank, Andre G. (1998), ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-21474-3
- ↑ a b For example, Henry Field uses both terms in The University of California African Expedition: I, Egypt. American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 50, No. 3, Part 1 (Jul. - Sep., 1948), pp. 479-493.
- ↑ Vincent Capdepuy, 2011, Un espace : l'Eufrasie, M@ppemonde, N°104
- ↑ R. W. McColl, ed. (2005, Golson Books Ltd.). 'continents' - Encyclopedia of World Geography, Volume 1. p. 215. ISBN 9780816072293. Retrieved 2012-06-26.
And since Africa and Asia are connected at the Suez Peninsula, Europe, Africa, and Asia are sometimes combined as Afro-Eurasia or Eurafrasia.
Check date values in:|year=(help) - ↑ Based upon population estimates for 2007 cited in a UN report, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision (Highlights).