A continent is one of the world's main continuous pieces of land. (The word continent comes from the Latin terra continens, meaning "continuous land".)

Unfortunately, even the experts cannot agree on how many continents there are:

• 7 Continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
• 6 Continents: Africa, Antarctica, Eurasia, North America, Oceania, South America
• 6 Continents: Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, Oceania
• 5 Continents: Africa, America, Antarctica, Eurasia, Oceania
• 4 Continents: Eurafrasia, America, Antarctica, Oceania

Curiously, we have a word for somebody who comes from Mars (a Martian), but we have no word for somebody who comes from Antarctica.

This chart lists what is probably the most widely-accepted number of continents (7), and shows the associated adjective and the noun used for a person from each continent:

Continent	Adjective	Person
Africa	African	an African
Antarctica	Antarctic	-
Asia	Asian	an Asian
Europe	European	a European
North America	North American	a North American
Oceania	Oceanian	an Oceanian
South America	South American	a South American

"Continent" is a geographical term, not political.

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