Answer» Correct Answer - Option 4 : Australia
The correct answer is Australia. - Asia is the biggest and Australia is the smallest continent.
- Listed in order of size are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.
- There are seven continents in the world and Asia is the largest, and according to land-mass, Australia is the smallest at almost one-fifth of the size of Asia, but Europe is not far behind as it has just over a million more square miles than Australia.
- Earth's oldest known piece of continental crust dates to the era of the moon's formation.
- Australia holds the oldest continental crust on Earth, researchers have confirmed, hills some 4.4 billion years old.
- Africa is the hottest continent on the planet.
- Antarctica is the only continent that does not have an indigenous human population.
- It is also the least populous of all the countries.
- Antarctica is the largest desert in the world.
- Although most of the deserts in Europe are classed as "semi- deserts" and was known as the only continent without deserts.
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