How did the present name for continents came up?

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How did the present name for continents came up?

Answer 1

AFRICA - Africa terra, "land of the Afri"

AMERICA - So-named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci

ANTARCTICA - Originally from Greek antarktikos, from anti + arktikos "Arctic". Literally "opposite the Arctic". Arktikos comes from Arktos, the Greek name for the constellation of the Great Bear Ursa Major, visible only in the Northern Hemisphere.

ASIA - It originally was just a name for the east bank of the Aegean Sea, an area known to the Hittites as Assuwa. In early Classical times, the Greeks started using the term "Asia" to refer to the whole region known today as Anatolia (the peninsula which forms the Asian portion of present-day Turkey).

AUSTRALIA - derived from the Latin Australis, meaning of the South.

EUROPE - derives from Europa, probably a compound meaning "broad-faced" (referring to the Earth), eurus  meaning "broad" and ōps meaning "face".