Continent Name Generator

One press names a continent, draws its shape in words and says what lies at its heart.

Continent Name Generator: 20 continents

Valdenentia, a continent with a desert on one coast and rainforest on the other. At its heart: an impact crater.

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OpeningValden
Endingentia
Shapewith a desert on one coast and rainforest on the other
At its heartan impact crater

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Bardolara, a continent that tilts, high in the east and drowned in the west. At its heart: a massif.
Sorvenotia, a continent that is flat enough to see weather coming for three days. At its heart: a massif.
Jastenia, a continent held together by an isthmus a day's ride wide. At its heart: an escarpment.
Wendarul, a continent that curls around a gulf like a sleeping cat. At its heart: a shield.
Faldorgaea, a continent that tilts, high in the east and drowned in the west. At its heart: a karst.
Yondarland, a continent that is still rising out of the sea at its eastern end. At its heart: a craton.
Dremarotia, a continent that is still rising out of the sea at its eastern end. At its heart: a high plateau.
Bardolland, a continent that sits across the equator like a saddle. At its heart: a sand sea.
Hulvarotia, a continent that mapmakers have never agreed on the northern edge of. At its heart: an inland sea.
Hulvarul, a continent that mapmakers have never agreed on the northern edge of. At its heart: a pole of inaccessibility.
Zindaringia, a continent shaped like a fishhook. At its heart: a continental divide.
Arveshana, a continent drawn out into a thousand-mile tail of islands. At its heart: a salt flat.
Arveshara, a continent drawn out into a thousand-mile tail of islands. At its heart: a graben.
Jastenotia, a continent ringed by reefs that ships enter through four gaps. At its heart: a high plateau.
Sorvenentia, a continent whose far coast no ship has yet charted. At its heart: an escarpment.
Vendarotia, a continent shaped like a leaf with a bite taken out. At its heart: a rift valley.
Kelvarara, a continent that mapmakers have never agreed on the northern edge of. At its heart: a graben.
Pervenotia, a continent whose far coast no ship has yet charted. At its heart: a sand sea.
Orsteneria, a continent that takes four months to cross on foot. At its heart: an ice sheet.
Kaldorasia, a continent that curls around a gulf like a sleeping cat. At its heart: a karst.

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How it works

This continent name generator names a landmass for a made-up world, describes its shape and puts a real landform at its heart. It works as a fantasy continent name generator for a map, a novel or a game.

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Name one continent or a whole world

Press New continent name. Tap a part to lock it, then press again. Lock the ending on ia and press for a family of continents that sound alike. Lock the shape you have already drawn and press until a name fits it.

Real endings, real hearts

The endings come from real names: gaea from Pangaea, ana from Gondwana, entia from Laurentia, the ancient core of North America. The heart is a real term of geography, such as a craton, an old and stable part of a continent, or a steppe.

Tips

For fantasy continent names that belong together, keep one ending and change only the opening.
As a landmass name generator it suits a great island too: keep the name and the heart.

Questions and answers

How do you come up with a name for a continent?

Borrow an ending that real continents and ancient landmasses carry, such as ia, ica or asia, and put a new opening in front. Then decide its shape and what lies in the middle, which a map will need.

What were the ancient continents called?

Geologists name many. Pangaea was a supercontinent of the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. Laurasia was its northern landmass and Gondwana the other, and Rodinia came together more than a billion years ago.

What is at the heart of a continent?

Often a craton, an old and stable part of the continent, or a shield of very old exposed rock. A continent may also hold a steppe, a high plateau, an inland sea or a basin whose water never reaches the ocean.

Are these names used anywhere else?

Every name the rows can spell was checked against real places and countries, the real and ancient continents, Wikipedia page titles and fan wikis of games and fiction, and the opening behind a hit was cut. Search a name before you publish it.

Opening: all 42 openings

A 1

Arvesh

B 2

Bardol
Belmar

C 2

Corlan
Corven

D 2

Dremar
Dulmar

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E 2

Embar
Esken

F 2

Faldor
Fenmar

G 1

Golven

H 2

Hesken
Hulvar

I 1

Ilmar

J 1

Jasten

K 2

Kaldor
Kelvar

M 2

Marden
Mindar

N 3

Nelvar
Norvel
Nostar

O 3

Olmar
Ombar
Orsten

P 1

Perven

Q 1

Quenor

R 2

Rendar
Rosmar

S 1

Sorven

T 1

Tindar

U 1

Urven

V 2

Valden
Vendar

W 2

Wendar
Wolmar

Y 2

Yarven
Yondar

Z 3

Zarven
Zelmar
Zindar

How this list was compiled: Our own list of 42 invented openings, written on 2026-10-02. Every one of the 588 names the Opening and Ending rows can spell was built by script and screened that day, and the opening behind a hit was cut: an English dictionary; first-name and surname files; GeoNames places (https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/, CC BY 4.0); every word of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_sovereign_states, exact and one letter away; the real continents, the ancient continents named in the Ending row and the lost continents of legend; a list of invented places from published games, books and films; every list on this site and its sister sites; a rude-word list read across the join; English Wikipedia page titles; every page title of 16 fantasy fan wikis; and exact page titles on 6 more (forgottenrealms.fandom.com, elderscrolls.fandom.com, wowpedia.fandom.com, pathfinder.fandom.com, finalfantasy.fandom.com, starwars.fandom.com). 77 candidates were cut (34 a real first name or surname; 13 a dictionary word; 9 a Wikipedia page title; 9 a name from published fiction, or one letter from it; 6 a real place or region, the word for its people, or one letter from one; 4 taken out on a second reading; 2 a fan wiki page title), among them Bel, Ros, Sar, Ber, Tem, Cas, Kestor, Hes. No list of places or fiction is complete, so search a name before you publish it. Licence: own work

Ending: all 14 endings

A 3

ana As in Gondwana, whose remnants make up about two-thirds of today's continental area.
ara As in Vaalbara, a possible early supercontinent named from two cratons, Kaapvaal and Pilbara.
asia As in Laurasia, the more northern of the two great landmasses of Pangaea.

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E 2

entia As in Laurentia, the ancient geological core of North America.
eria As in Cimmeria, an ancient continent that rifted from Gondwana and joined Eurasia.

G 1

gaea As in Pangaea, the supercontinent of the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.

I 4

ia As in Rodinia, a supercontinent that came together more than a billion years ago.
ica As in Baltica, an ancient continent that is now northwestern Eurasia.
idia As in Laramidia, an island continent of the Late Cretaceous, when a seaway split North America in two.
ingia As in Beringia, a prehistoric region between the Lena River in Russia and the Mackenzie River in Canada.

L 1

land As in Kenorland, a supercontinent that may have existed very early in the history of the Earth.

O 2

onia As in Avalonia, a microcontinent of the Paleozoic era.
otia As in Pannotia, a name made from the Greek for all southern land.

U 1

ul As in Sahul, the old landmass that joined Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea.

How this list was compiled: 14 endings carried by the names of real continents and landmasses of the deep past. Each example was checked against its English Wikipedia article on 2026-10-02 (linked on each line; CC BY-SA 4.0); the wording of each line is ours. Licence: own work

Shape: all 30 shapes

Outline 10

drawn out into a thousand-mile tail of islands
held together by an isthmus a day's ride wide
round as a shield, with one deep bay
shaped like a broken ring
shaped like a fishhook
shaped like a glove with six fingers
shaped like a leaf with a bite taken out
shaped like an anvil, wide at both ends
that curls around a gulf like a sleeping cat
that narrows to a single mountain pass in the middle

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Lie of the land 10

crossed from coast to coast by a single river
cut almost in half by a gulf
ringed by reefs that ships enter through four gaps
split by one long inland sea
that is flat enough to see weather coming for three days
that tilts, high in the east and drowned in the west
whose rivers all run inward
with a coast of cliffs and only three good harbors
with a desert on one coast and rainforest on the other
with a wall of mountains down its western edge

Place on the globe 10

that is still rising out of the sea at its eastern end
that lies wholly south of the equator
that mapmakers have never agreed on the northern edge of
that reaches from one polar sea to the other
that sailors can circle in a single season
that sits across the equator like a saddle
that takes four months to cross on foot
that touches no other land for two thousand miles
that was two continents until the sea fell
whose far coast no ship has yet charted

How this list was compiled: Our own list of 30 shapes, written on 2026-10-02 and checked by script against every list on this site. Licence: own work

At its heart: all 22 landforms

Bedrock and breaks 7

a caldera A large cauldron-like hollow that forms after a volcano empties its magma chamber.
a craton An old and stable part of the continental lithosphere.
a graben A sunken block of crust bordered by parallel faults. The word is German for ditch.
a massif A principal mountain mass, such as a compact part of a mountain range.

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Bedrock and breaks, continued

a rift valley A long lowland between highlands or mountain ranges, made by a geologic rift.
a shield A large area of exposed, very old crystalline rock that forms stable ground.
an impact crater A depression formed by the impact of a smaller body from space.

High ground and ice 5

a continental divide High ground that parts the waters: rivers on one side reach one ocean, rivers on the other side another.
a cordillera A chain or network of mountain ranges. The word is borrowed from Spanish.
a high plateau A plateau is also called a high plain or a tableland.
an escarpment A steep slope or long cliff.
an ice sheet Also called a continental glacier: a mass of glacial ice that covers the land around it.

Plains 5

a karst A landscape formed where water dissolves limestone and similar rock.
a loess plain Loess is silt-sized sediment laid down by wind-blown dust.
a peneplain A low plain worn nearly flat by long erosion.
a steppe Grassland plains without closed forests, except near rivers and lakes.
badlands Dry terrain where soft rock and clay-rich soil have been heavily eroded.

Dry basins and far points 5

a pole of inaccessibility The point of a continent that is farthest from any coastline.
a salt flat Flat, open ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun.
a sand sea An erg, or sand sea, is a broad area of desert covered with wind-swept sand.
an endorheic basin A drainage basin that keeps its water: nothing flows out of it to the sea.
an inland sea A very large body of water inside a landmass.

How this list was compiled: 22 real terms of geography and geology. Each meaning was checked against the English Wikipedia article linked on it on 2026-10-02 (CC BY-SA 4.0); the wording of each line is ours. Licence: own work