Australia and America

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Facts About Australia or Oceania: 

• Australia is the largest island (an island is a land mass that is surrounded by water on all sides). It is known as “Island Continent”.
• Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul, Australinea or Meganesia, to distinguish it from the Australian mainland, is a continent comprising mainland Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, Seram, possibly Timor, and neighbouring islands.
• The lands were joined with Antarctica as part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana until the plate began to drift north about 96 million years ago.

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Facts About North America:

• North America has the largest number of people who speak English either as their first language (231 million people) or speak English as their second language and who describe themselves as speaking English ‘very well’ or fluently.
• Italian explorer Christopher Columbus was the first European to navigate to North America in 1492.
• North America is the continent which is home to the largest Christian population in the world. Almost 80% of the people in Canada, the USA and Mexico consider themselves as Christians.
• North America was named after the explorer Americo Vespucci.
• North America is the only continent that has every kind of climate – Tropical, Dry, Continental, Moderate, and Polar.
• Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes, is the largest fresh water lake in the world. It is located on the border between the United States and Canada.
• North America has the highest average income per person as compared to any other continent and average food intake per person is also greater than that of any other continents.
• North America is the third-largest continent in area (9.54 million square miles), following Asia and Africa, and the fourth in population after Asia, Africa, and Europe.
• The first written constitution of the world is that of U.S.
• The second largest producer of natural gas is United States. Russia is the largest Producer of Natural Gas.
• The first inhabitants of North America are believed to be of Asian origin.
• Glidden Sholes invented typewriter in North America.
• North America is home to the longest highway in the world.
• Niagara Falls of North America is one of the most popular waterfalls in the world.

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Facts About South America:

• South America is home to the world’s highest uninterrupted waterfall, Angel Falls in Venezuela.
•  The highest single drop waterfall Kaieteur Falls in Guyana
•  The longest mountain range, the Andes (whose highest mountain is Aconcagua at 6,962 m [22,841 ft])
• Angel Falls are the world’s highest waterfalls
• Amazon River Basin is the world’s largest river basin
• The Andes are the world’s longest mountain range
• Main natural resources in South America are minerals such as iron ore (used to make steel) or copper and agricultural produce such as corn, coffee, wheat, soybean and cocoa.
• The southernmost city in the world is on the South American continent.  The city is called Ushuaia, is located on the Argentinian part of the Tierra del Fuego and more than 55,000 people live there.
• The most populous city in South America is Sao Paulo. Almost half of the population of the South American continent lives in Brazil.
• The Incas were the largest group of indigenous people in South America when the Europeans arrived.
•  There are two landlocked countries in South America: Paraguay and Bolivia are located in the interior of the continent and have neither access to the Atlantic Ocean nor to the Pacific Ocean.
• The Aconcagua is considered the second highest of the world’s Seven Summits after Mount Everest which is in Asia.
• Quinine, the first drug that was used to prevent and treat malaria is obtained from the bark of the tree called Cinchona that grows in Ecuador, South America
• Argentina’s Patagonia has one of the highest wind energy potential on earth.