Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Afro-Eurasia, also Afrasia, Eurafrasia or Eufrasia, is the largest landmass on Earth. It may be defined as a supercontinent, with the term being a portmanteau of its constituent parts Africa and Eurasia (further divided into Europe and Asia) which are joined together at the Isthmus of Suez. Afro-Eurasia encompasses 84,980,532 square kilometers and has a population of approximately 6 billion people, or roughly 85% of the world population. It is also known as the Old World, as opposed to the Americas, Antarctica and Oceania, which are known as the New World.The mainland of Afro-Eurasia has been referred to as the World Island, a term coined by Sir Halford John Mackinder in The Geographical Pivot of History. (The term excludes non-mainland islands and archipelagos.) It was the original scope of the word 'continent'.. }
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- Afro-Eurasia abstract "Afro-Eurasia, also Afrasia, Eurafrasia or Eufrasia, is the largest landmass on Earth. It may be defined as a supercontinent, with the term being a portmanteau of its constituent parts Africa and Eurasia (further divided into Europe and Asia) which are joined together at the Isthmus of Suez. Afro-Eurasia encompasses 84,980,532 square kilometers and has a population of approximately 6 billion people, or roughly 85% of the world population. It is also known as the Old World, as opposed to the Americas, Antarctica and Oceania, which are known as the New World.The mainland of Afro-Eurasia has been referred to as the World Island, a term coined by Sir Halford John Mackinder in The Geographical Pivot of History. (The term excludes non-mainland islands and archipelagos.) It was the original scope of the word 'continent'.".