Today we will see a brief sketch on quick facts on the World (which is our subject for the week). This fact will go into the formation of the world that exists today and may be a little sort of elementary.
The world as it is of today divided into continents which are composed of countries, was earlier a single supercontinent called Pangaea as you all may know. It further split into Gondwana (the name given to a southern precursor supercontinent) and Laurasia (the name given to the Northern supercontinent). After further splits, the resultant land formations came to be known as Africa, Asia, North America, South America, Australasia, Europe and Antartica i.e today's continents.
As of today, there are 203 Sovereign States in the world, out of these 194 are widely recognised states and the rest of them too are Sovereign States but are not widely recognised by other states. The list given below shows the number of Sovereign States or countries per continent including the de facto sovereign states (States which are not widely recognised by other sovereign states). The continents are listed as per their size in sq.km:
1. Asia: 49 countries
2. Africa: 53 countries
3. North America: 23 countries
4. South America: 12 countries
5. Antartica: (no sovereign states)
6. Europe: 50 countries
7. Oceania: 16 countries
As there are some political controversies involved in the fact, please be free to comment on this fact, if anything is wrong.
Nice post...led to to the wiki post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_state
ReplyDeleteDidn't know sovereign states like Abkhazia and Transnistria were still even minutely recognised!! :)
Actually, the list (continents & countries0 shows only the 194 widely recognised sovereign states, besides these they are also some minor dependant territories like Macau, Greenland, Western Sahara e.t.c also exist ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_outlying_territories_by_total_area).
ReplyDeleteHey, I didnt mention any link to the wiki post (or any other post in fact), although I refer Wiki most of the times.