Sentence examples for second largest continent from inspiring English sources

Africa, the second largest continent (after Asia), covering about one-fifth of the total land surface of the Earth.

Thus, although Africa is the second largest continent, it contains only about 10 percent of the world's population and can be said to be underpopulated.

Mark Read, the director of the century-old modern and contemporary art gallery Everard Read in Johannesburg, said that "on the world's second largest continent, there will be two art centers: Johannesburg and Lagos".

If time allows, you may wish to briefly review basic facts about Africa; its status as the second largest continent after Asia, with a total surface area of 11,700,000 square miles; its population of approximately 700 million people; and its location on the globe, surrounded by the Indian and Atlantic Oceans in the east and west, as well as the Mediterranean Sea to the north.

The truth is, history is made up of what we choose to accept and shaped by what we reject, and to declare Achebe alone as the "father of modern African literature" is to skew the realities of the world's second largest continent, a place of multiple languages and identities, that has been sharing and writing stories for longer than the modern English language has existed.

Africa, the second largest continent, has a variety of climates ranging from the hyper-arid to the very humid climates.

In addition, although Africa is the third largest continent, it is reportedly the fastest growing with the billionth person born there this year.

Ukraine, country located in eastern Europe, the second largest on the continent after Russia.

It covers more than, making it the fifth-largest continent, about 1.3 times as large as Europe.

It is the second largest country on the continent; only Algeria is larger.

"We are a very rich continent, the second-largest continent in the world, lush-green, plenty of resources.