If anything Africa is the closest to being obvious. Antartica doesn't qualify, as it has no permanent population [1]. Even if it did, its non-permanent populati

If anything Africa is the closest to being obvious. Antartica doesn't qualify, as it has no permanent population [1]. Even if it did, its non-permanent population is so many orders of magnitude behind the rest [2] that its inclusion in the original term 'continents' would be clearly misleading. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_continents_by_population#Area_and_population http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_continents_by_populatio...