The Order of Things

Today's mentalfloss.com Think Thursday Brain Game challenge is a classic puzzle we first ran over four years ago. Good luck!

List the seven continents of the world, AFRICA, ANTARCTICA, ASIA, EUROPE, NORTH AMERICA, OCEANIA, and SOUTH AMERICA, in order from MOST land area to LEAST land area.

Here is the SOLUTION. 

SOLUTION:

1. ASIA (17.3 million sq. mi.)
2. AFRICA (11.7 million sq. mi.)
3. NORTH AMERICA (9.1 million sq. mi.)
4. SOUTH AMERICA (6.9 million sq. mi.)
5. ANTARCTICA (5.5 million sq. mi.)
6. EUROPE (4.1 million sq. mi.)
7. OCEANIA (3 million sq. mi.)

Thanks for playing!