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Seven Continents

The seventh continent has 93% of its length covered by the Pacific Ocean and is inhabited by only five million people.

Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Oceania and Antarctica. These are the six continents, right? Well, it may not be so. A group of scientists claims that there are actually seven continents and one sub-continent (India). According to a study published in the scientific journal Geology, there is a continent that is partly submerged and that they named Zealand.

According to the study, to be considered a continent, the piece of land must have more than one million square meters, not be connected to other continents and be elevated above the surrounding area. Now, “Zealand is a continent submerged in the Pacific Ocean and from it we can only glimpse its highest mountains, the islands of New Zealand and New Caledonia”, explains Laia Alegret, a paleontologist at the University of Zaragoza and co- author of the study. “What differentiates this continent from the remaining six is that it has a very unusual geography since most of its extension is under water, a kilometer deep.”

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Zealand has an extension of about 5 million square kilometers and only 7% of its extension is above the water line, in the form of thousands of islands. All of these archipelagos are then mountain tops that rise to about 1,000 meters in altitude from the main piece of land.

The continent is inhabited by five million people, being the second less populous, after Antarctica.

The study also reveals that about 60 or 85 million years ago, the tectonic plates that constituted the super-continent Gondwana separated and gave rise to Australia and Antarctica. A few million years later, a new movement caused part of the mass that gave rise to Oceania to sink a kilometer. This activity took place in the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area that encompasses a large cluster of tectonic plates.

Countries in Africa
Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cabo Verde Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia	Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia	Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo Rwanda São Tomé and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Countries in Asia
Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq	Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Oman Pakistan	Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Taiwan Thailand Tajikistan Turkmenistan Turkey United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen
Countries in Europe
Albania Andorra Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece	Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Macedonia	Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom Vatican City
Countries in Oceania
Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia	Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa	Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
Countries in North America
Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica	Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico	Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States
Countries in South America
Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile	Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay	Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela

EU Commission

European Commission, Assembly (2014) of 28 independent Commissioners, one from each of the EU Member States.

The commissioners are politicians, not civil servants, and usually have a political background in their home country. The Commissioners are elected by the governments of the Member States, but after their appointment they are not allowed to take instructions from their respective home countries and must act in the best interests of the Community.

The Commission shares the various responsibilities between the individual Commissioners. The Commission has an almost complete monopoly of initiative in addition to significant control obligations towards the Member States.

According to Countryaah.com, any country joining the EU has the right to be a member of the Commission. By the Treaty of Amsterdam, the European Parliament was given an important role, with Parliament approving the Council of Ministers’ recommendation on the appointment of the President of the Commission and the other Commission.

By the Treaty of Nice, the role of the President of the Commission has been strengthened, with a Commissioner having to resign if the President so requests, following the approval of the College.

The Lisbon Treaty directly links the outcome of the European elections to the election of the President of the Commission. At the same time, a post of Vice-President of the Commission responsible for external relations is created. This title, entitled EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, must also be the European Council’s mandate for the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy.

The Commission was hit by a scandal in 1999 when an independent expert committee published a report on fraud and neglect. Since then, the Prodi Commission in 2000 has adopted a code of conduct and initiated a reform program covering key areas of the Commission’s administration, which has been continued by the Barroso Commission after 2005.

The 50 countries with the fewest radios in the world

Rank	Country	Number of Radios
1	Guinea-Bissau (Africa)	77,000
2	Djibouti (Africa)	84,000
3	Bhutan (Asia)	85,000
4	Lesotho (Africa)	133,000
5	Guadeloupe (North America)	188,000
6	Swaziland (Africa)	198,000
7	Equatorial Guinea (Africa)	230,000
8	Bahamas (North America)	230,000
9	Iceland (Europe)	290,000
10	Central African Republic (Africa)	300,000
11	Luxembourg (Europe)	310,000
12	Malta (Europe)	316,000
13	Namibia (Africa)	332,000
14	Bahrain (Asia)	360,000
15	Botswana (Africa)	380,000
16	Brunei Darussalam (Asia)	380,000
17	Qatar (Asia)	387,000
18	Mongolia (Asia)	387,000
19	Macedonia (Europe)	430,000
20	Guinea (Africa)	438,000
21	Congo (Africa)	473,000
22	Mauritius (Africa)	500,000
23	Guyana (South America)	520,000
24	Papua New Guinea (Australia-Oceania)	520,000
25	Haiti (North America)	554,000
26	Fiji (Australia-Oceania)	582,000
27	Kyrgyzstan (Asia)	593,000
28	Burkina Faso (Africa)	620,000
29	Gambia (Africa)	620,000
30	Nepal (Asia)	691,000
31	Gabon (Africa)	710,000
32	Trinidad and Tobago (North America)	710,000
33	Cyprus (Europe)	730,000
34	Albania (Europe)	750,000
35	Laos (Asia)	849,000
36	Angola (Africa)	922,000
37	Mozambique (Africa)	940,000
38	Armenia (Asia)	950,000
39	Tajikistan (Asia)	960,000
40	Liberia (Africa)	1,014,000
41	Slovenia (Europe)	1,046,000
42	Panama (North America)	1,054,000
43	Paraguay (South America)	1,070,000
44	Bosnia and Herzegovina (Europe)	1,140,000
45	Sierra Leone (Africa)	1,210,000
46	Senegal (Africa)	1,280,000
47	Guatemala (North America)	1,350,000
48	Philippines (Asia)	1,410,000
49	United Arab Emirates (Asia)	1,410,000
50	Yemen (Asia)	1,450,000

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Commit 4 Countries

Commit 4 Countries

Seven Continents

Countries in Africa

Countries in Asia

Countries in Europe

Countries in Oceania

Countries in North America

Countries in South America

EU Commission

The 50 countries with the fewest radios in the world

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