Sentence examples for third largest continent from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Chemists made up the second largest continent, at 8%, and mathematicians were third, at 5%. (Respondents were allowed to choose multiple fields, but no other discipline exceeded 3%.) Some 91% worked in academia, and 81% described themselves as faculty members and/or principal investigators.

For decades the same headlines have dominated our view of the world's second largest continent.

It is the second largest continent in the world after Asia.

In six hours of presidential and vice-presidential debate, the world's second largest continent has been relegated to mere soundbites about birthers and Benghazi conspiracy theories.