🐧 Antarctica
Antarctica is the southernmost continent and the only one with no permanent population and no sovereign countries. It is governed by the Antarctic Treaty and holds about 70% of the world's fresh water as ice.
- Countries
- 0
- Area
- 14,200,000 km²
- Population
- No permanent population
- Highest point
- Vinson Massif (4,892 m)
- Largest country
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- Smallest country
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Antarctica facts
- The lowest natural temperature ever recorded, −89.2 °C, was measured at Vostok Station.
- Antarctica is technically the largest desert in the world.
- No country owns Antarctica; the Antarctic Treaty reserves it for scientific research.
- Its ice sheet averages about 1.9 kilometres thick.
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Countries
Antarctica has no sovereign countries — only research stations operated under the Antarctic Treaty.