Africa-Eurasia

Africa-Eurasia plus associated islands.

Africa-Eurasia, or Afro-Eurasia, is a supercontinent and the world's largest landmass, containing around 85% of the human population. It is typically subdivided by the Suez Canal into the continents of Africa and Eurasia, the latter of which has been historically further subdivided into Europe and Asia. Historians of the cultural materialism school may subdivide it into Eurasia-Northern Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, based on differing agricultural systems and other differences. (See Guns, Germs, and Steel for example.)

Some geographers and historians have referred to it as Eurafrasia or Afrasia (omitting the European peninsula from the name), although these terms have never come into general use. In geopolitics the mainland of Africa-Eurasia (excluding islands such as the British Isles, Japan and Madagascar) has been referred to as the World Island.

The Old World includes Africa-Eurasia and its surrounding islands.
*Eurasia
**Asia
***Northern Asia
***Western Asia
***Central Asia
***Eastern Asia
***Southern Asia
***Southeastern Asia
**Europe
***Northern Europe
***Western Europe
***Eastern Europe
***Southern Europe
*Africa
**Northern Africa (sometimes moved to the list above)
**Western Africa
**Central Africa
**Eastern Africa
**Southern Africa

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