AFROEURASIA Antonyms

• an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep

• the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations

• the nations of the Asian continent collectively

• a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony

• the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean

• the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

• an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members

• the nations of the European continent collectively

• a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)

• the isthmus joining North America and South America; extends from the southern border of Mexico to the northern border of Colombia

• the nations of Central America collectively

• a popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia)

• a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama

• the nations of the North American continent collectively

• a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama

• the nations of the South American continent collectively