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Continent in sentence

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Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, and it contains the geographic South Pole.
It's the fifth largest continent on the planet at nearly twice the size of Australia.
On average, it's the coldest, windiest, driest continent and has the highest average elevation of all the continents.
Because it's so harsh and hard to get to, there are no permanent human residents on Antarctica, but anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 people reside throughout the year at the research stations scattered across the continent.
Well, first, much of the continent is more than three kilometers above sea level, and temperature decreases with elevation.
And when in 1492 he sailed the ocean blue, he found something better than India: a whole new continent."
With the addition of images of the Pope's friends and family, this was a perfect decoration for a small court limited to the European continent.
The slave trade had become an arms race, altering societies and economies across the continent.
Not only did the continent lose tens of millions of its able-bodied population, but because most of the slaves taken were men, the long-term demographic effect was even greater.
Unknown in the West, this was the collected wisdom of an entire continent, the voice of Africa at a time when Africa was thought not to have a voice at all.
"An offense against the entire continent?
But Bonaparte couldn't rest unless he had control of the whole continent, and all he knew was fighting.
Millions dead all over the continent, and the whole international order shattered."
It was thanks to Napoléon that the continent was reshaped from a chaotic patchwork of fragmented feudal and religious territories into efficient, modern, and secular nation states where the people held more power and rights than ever before."
But the metric system remained standard for formal use, and it spread across the continent, along with France's borders.
They live on every continent, including Antarctica.
The year was 2011 and all over southern Africa and the whole continent, affordable data packages for smartphones and Internet surfing became much easier to get.
Because at that time, if you were to search Africa on Twitter or on Google or any kind of social media, you would think that the entire continent was just pictures of animals and white guys drinking cocktails in hotel resorts.
And these were the same Africans that I began to meet in my own travels around the continent.
We were standing in the middle of something amazing, because for the first time ever young Africans could discuss the future of our continent in real time, without the restriction of borders, finances and watchful governments.
On a continent where more than a handful of leaders have been in power longer than the majority of the populations has been alive, we are in desperate need of something new, something that works.
My dream is that young Africans begin to realize that the entire continent is our canvas, is our home.
But equally importantly, it is home to the offices of almost every single multinational corporation that invests directly into South Africa and indeed, into the entire African continent.
But we analyzed every 50-mile by 50-mile block on the continent, and we found that half of farmers live in just these shaded regions.
And Rwanda has decided to become the technology hub, or a technology hub on the continent.
But that narrative is being challenged now because the continent has not been doing well in the last two years.
The '80s and '90s were the lost decades, when Africa was not doing well, and some of you will remember an "Economist" cover that said, "The Lost Continent."
Today, we have about 687 million mobile lines on the continent.
There were many conflicts on the continent.
Youth unemployment on the continent is about 15 percent, and underemployment is a serious problem.
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