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World SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Changing world
pp.50–51

The Earth and everything that lives on it make up ▸ ▸ Climate change
the world. We often show the world as a map. Just p.60
over one-quarter of it is land, which is divided into ▸ ▸ Earth p.83

seven huge areas, called continents. The rest of ▸ ▸ Earth’s surface
p.84
the world is covered in water, or oceans. ▸ ▸ Maps p.155

Where we live
We live on all of the world’s The world’s smallest The world’s biggest country
seven continents. Apart from country is Vatican is Russia. It stretches from
City. It is contained
Antarctica, the continents within the city of Eastern Europe across Asia
to the Pacific Ocean.
are divided into areas Rome, in Italy.
called countries.

Europe

North America Asia

The world’s
biggest city is
Africa
Tokyo, in Japan.
More than 36
million people
live there.
About the
world South America The world’s
richest country
The world’s is Qatar in
poorest country Western Asia.
is the Central Oceania
Population: African Republic,
7.5 billion in Africa.

Highest point:
Mount Everest

Antarctica
Lowest point:
Mariana Trench

City life
Biggest desert: There are more Half of all the people on
Sahara Desert (hot) than 7.5 billion Earth live in cities. Many
or Antarctica (cold) people in the world, live in one of the world’s
living in about 35 megacities, each of
Longest river: 200 countries. which has more than
Nile ten million people.
This nighttime photograph of the megacity
Paris, in France, was taken from space.
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