Furthermore, sitting astride the centre of the Eurasian land mass, it provides a land bridge between Asia and Europe.

With the aim of enhancing cooperation, creating and strengthening an atmosphere of peace, confidence and friendship on the Asian continent,

Africa is the second largest continent, a landmass second from Asia.

Measures are frequently juxtaposed in this way on the American continent and in some African and Asian countries.

The situation on the Asian continent and in the world is rapidly changing.

11. In 1997, much of the African continent was bypassed by the Asian currency crisis.

The death of President Eyadema is a great loss for the States of West Africa and the African continent.

In recent years, moreover, migratory flows have intensified in Asia, Africa, the countries of the former eastern bloc and from Asia to other continents.

A bridge spanning the Indian Ocean, connecting the continents of Asia and Africa, is now being built through the New Asia Africa Strategic Partnership (NAASP).

The needs of the African continent

The African continent has a right to all the privileges enjoyed by other continents.

Africa is a very large continent.

And this is what we started to do in one of the largest countries on the continent, Nigeria.

Railways through Africa

The Tasmanian devil is found only on the island of Tasmania, which is that small island just to the south of the mainland of Australia.

Dying for Europe

The Organization of American States has taken action in Haiti, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is continuing its work on the Eurasian continent.

The Asian Cooperation Dialogue, launched by Thailand in 2002 with the aim of creating an Asian Community, engaged 28 States in 2005, representing all regions of the continent.

Now let's look at the continent as a whole.

We wish to see the European continent prosperous and secure.

Forty from the continent alone. Ha!

15. Africa has suffered the worst deforestation with its forest cover reduced to only 8 per cent of the total land area of the African continent.

Electricity grids are divided into two parts, the eastern part linked to Scandinavia and the western part to the European mainland.

Given the urgency of Africa's development, Syria has made that continent a priority for its official development assistance.

Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo, Oslo

Africa is the youngest continent, and it is one with great promise for positive change.

There's a crime hatching on that bedeviled continent.

Mountain ranges, plate tectonics, moves the continents around, forms ore deposits.

43. The children of the African continent continued to experience an enormous amount of suffering.

The good news is that a powerful investment led impetus should partly offset declining export growth and allow Asia s landing to be soft rather than hard. All bets would be off, however, in the event of a eurozone breakup and a full blown European implosion.

ADDIS ABABA Climate change will hit Africa a continent that has contributed virtually nothing to bring it about first and hardest.

In fact, our continent, whose importance is more apparent every day, must pursue with determination and in unity its fight for the democratization of international relations.

In 1996, the programme was extended to the whole African continent.

And it is quite clear that apes originated on the African continent.

The Commission used this methodology in different landlocked subregions in Asia, including South Asia, North east Asia and Central Asia.

The mainland of China covers 96,000,000 square kilometers, and it is the largest country in Asia, as well as the third largest in the world.

As Nigeria's President Obasanjo recently remarked, Africa is a continent on the move.

In Africa, Gondwana molded Proteas.

For Africa, there is abundant political will in our continent to make the African Union succeed.

Zambia continues to be concerned about the conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, the Republic of Congo, Sudan and elsewhere on the continent.

President Eyadema will be greatly missed, not only by the people of Togo but also by those of the West African region and of the entire African continent.

Africa had recently made considerable strides towards maintaining peace on the continent.

Are we doing the best we can for the continent?

It can be seen that Africa is still a poor continent.

The other critical region in the continent has been Central Africa.