Random Continent Generator: All 7 With Area, People and Highest Point
One press draws one of the seven continents, as a card with its area, 2025 population, number of countries, highest point and a globe, or as a slice on a wheel.
Random Continent Generator: All 7 With Area, People and Highest Point: how it works
A random continent generator has only seven answers, so each card adds a globe, the area, 2025 population, number of countries and highest point. In the list nothing repeats until all seven have come up. Switch to Wheel and all seven sit on a wheel to spin in front of a room.
Seven continents here, six or five elsewhere
This page uses the seven-continent model taught in most English-speaking countries. Schools in Greece and in many Romance-speaking countries teach six, with North and South America as one America. Russia and parts of Eastern Europe also count six, but join Europe and Asia as Eurasia. A five-continent count keeps the single America and leaves out uninhabited Antarctica.
How the countries on each card are counted
The counts follow the United Nations' regions and add up to 195: the 193 member states plus the Holy See and the State of Palestine. All of Russia counts in Europe, and all of Turkey and Kazakhstan in Asia. North America's 23 are Canada, the United States, Mexico, seven Central American countries and 13 Caribbean island countries.
Tips
Draw two and compare. Asia wins on area, people and highest point, and holds about 59 of every 100 people alive. On countries Africa beats it, 54 to 48.
For seven group projects, set the count to 7 and read the continents down your list of groups. The wheel never lands on the same continent twice running.
Plan an imaginary trip in two draws: continent first, then a country. Europe, Africa and South America have country pages here.
Questions and answers
Why does one card say Australia and Oceania?
Australia on its own is the smallest continent. New Zealand and the Pacific island countries lie far from any mainland, so atlases group them with Australia as Oceania. The card counts that whole region: 14 countries and about 47 million people. Its highest point, Puncak Jaya, is on New Guinea. Mainland Australia's is Mount Kosciuszko, at 7,310 feet.
Is Mount Elbrus or Mont Blanc the highest point in Europe?
It depends where Europe ends. Elbrus, at 18,510 feet, stands in southern Russia, about seven miles north of the Caucasus watershed. Run the boundary along that watershed, as this page does, and Elbrus is in Europe. Leave the Caucasus out and the title passes to Mont Blanc in the Alps, at about 15,770 feet.
Who owns Antarctica?
Nobody. Seven countries claim parts of it, but the Antarctic Treaty, signed by 12 countries on 1 December 1959, set those claims aside and keeps the continent for peace and science. It now has 58 parties. Nobody lives there permanently: about 5,000 people work at research stations in summer and about 1,000 stay through winter.
