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Eurasia is a large landmass covering about 52,990,000 km2 (20,846,000 mi2) or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface (36.2% of the land area) located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. Sometimes considered a single continent,[1] Eurasia comprises the traditional continents of Europe and Asia (with Eurasia being a portmanteau of the two), concepts which date back to classical antiquity and the borders for which are somewhat arbitrary. Eurasia, in turn, is part of the yet larger landmass of Afro-Eurasia, whereby Eurasia is joined to Africa at the Isthmus of Suez. Eurasia is inhabited by almost 4.8 billion people, more than 71% of the world's population. Eurasia was the host of many ancient civilizations, based in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and ancient China. Jared Diamond, in his book Guns, Germs and Steel, credits Eurasia's dominance in world history to the east-west extent of Eurasia and its climate zones, and the availability of Eurasian animals and plants suitable for domestication. He associated North Africa in his definition of Eurasia, due to it having a similar climate and peoples.
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Europe Travel Tour Plan
by Priya Singh
Jun 23, 2008
Europe is one of the seven conventional continents of Earth. The westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, it is surrounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, to the southeast by the Ca...
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