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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Earth (planet).
See also changes related to Earth (planet), or pages that link to Earth (planet) or to this page or whose text contains "Earth (planet)".

Continents

  • Developing Article Antarctica: The Earth's southernmost continent, located almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle; covers the South Pole. [e]
  • Developing Article Africa: Continent stretching over the equator, hosting deserts, tropical jungles and savannah as well as over fifty nations; population about 900,000,000. [e]
  • Stub Asia: The largest continent in both land area (with 30% of Earth's land area) and population (with 4 billion people, or 60% of Earth's population). [e]
  • Developing Article Australia: Continent in the Southern Hemisphere and the federal parliamentary nation that occupies it. [e]
  • Developing Article Europe: Sixth largest continent; area 10,000,000 km2; pop. 720,000,000 [e]
  • Stub North America: The third largest continent, location of three large nations Canada, the United States, and Mexico. [e]
  • Stub South America: The fourth largest of the Earth's continents, one of the pieces that broke up from the former supercontinent Gondwana. [e]

Oceans

  • Developing Article Arctic Ocean: Collective name for the region of Earth, both land and sea, which surrounds the North Pole. [e]
  • Stub Atlantic Ocean: Second largest ocean in the world; separates the Americas from Europe and Africa. [e]
  • Stub Indian Ocean: Body of water bordered on the west by Africa; on the north by Asia; on the east by Indochina, some islands of Indonesia, and Australia; and on the south by the Antarctic Ocean. [e]
  • Stub Pacific Ocean: the largest single mass of water in the world, lying between Asia and Australia on its west, and North America and South America on its east. [e]

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  • Developing Article Atmosphere: The layers of gas surrounding stars and planets. [e]
  • Stub Mesosphere: Layer of the Earth's atmosphere that is directly above the stratosphere and directly below the thermosphere, located about 50 to 85 kilometers (30 to 50 miles) above the Earth's surface. [e]
  • Stub Stratosphere: Second major layer of Earth's atmosphere, just above the troposphere, and below the mesosphere, stratified in temperature, with warmer layers higher up and cooler layers farther down. [e]
  • Stub Troposphere: The lowest of the main layers of the Earth's atmosphere, extending up about 12km from Earth's surface. [e]