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Studying Abroad – An overview of educational information in South America

Overview: South America is the fourth largest of the 7 continents. It has 12 countries & 3 major territories. From a population standpoint, South America is home to roughly 370 million people, which makes it the fifth most populated continent. South America is divided politically into 12 indepen

Studying Abroad – An overview of educational information North America

Overview: North America is the 3rd largest of the 7 continents. It is made up of 23 countries including Canada, Greenland, Mexico, United States, and all the countries of Central America and the island countries and dependencies of the Caribbean. North America is one of the more prosperous of the se

Studying Abroad – An overview of educational information Africa

Overview: Africa is the second largest continent in the world and has 5 different conveniently divided regions as the East, West, North, Southern and Central Africa. From the Sahara Desert to Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa is continent of extremes. Some areas have tremendous natural resources while othe

Studying Abroad – An overview of educational information Australia

Overview: Australia is the smallest of the 7 continents and includes Oceania. Oceania is considered as yet another small sized continent that the geography experts now jointly define as Australia/Oceania. Collectively it combines all of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, as well as the thousa

Studying Abroad – An overview of educational information in Europe

Overview : Europe is the sixth largest of the seven continents and includes 44 countries, Independencies, Islands, and Territories. In other words we can say that Europe is the second smallest continent covering roughly 4 million square miles. It has, however, the second largest human population wit

Studying Abroad – An overview of educational information in Asia

Overview: Asia is the largest of the seven continents. The continent has nearly 50 countries and can be broadly divided into six major regions as enumerated below. With about 3.3 billion people, Asia comprises nearly three fifths of the world’s total population. The six major Asian regions, ea