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The large area of the land is known as

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Answered by himasree1205
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Explanation:

A continuous area of land surrounded by ocean is called a "landmass". Although it may be most often written as one word to distinguish it from the usage "land mass"—the measure of land area—it is also used as two words. Landmasses include supercontinents, continents, and islands

Answered by kshitijgrg
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Answer:

The large landmasses are known as the continents.

Explanation:

  • A continent is any of several large land masses. Generally recognized through conferences in place of any strict criteria, as many as seven geographical areas typically appear as continents. Ordered from biggest in the region to smallest, those seven areas are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.
  • Variations with fewer continents can also additionally merge a number of those, for example, America, Eurasia, or Afro-Eurasia are occasionally handled as single continents, which could deliver the entire quantity as little as four. Zealandia, a in large part submerged mass of continental crust, has additionally been defined as a continent.
  • In geology, a continent is described as "one in every of Earth's primary landmasses, inclusive of each dry land and continental shelves".
  • The geological continents correspond to 6 huge regions of continental crust which might be discovered at the tectonic plates, however, exclude small continental fragments inclusive of Madagascar which might be normally known as microcontinents. The Continental crust is the handiest acknowledged to exist on Earth.
  • There are particular divisions on the Earth's floor. The huge landmasses are called the continents and the large water in our bodies is known as the ocean.
  • The Earth floor is ordinarily included through Oceans nearly 71% region of Earth. And handiest 29% is taken into consideration as land surface.

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