The fastest-growing continent in the world will eventually split up, creating a new ocean and another landmass.

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is created during the biannual WEO exercise, which begins in January and June of each year and results in the April and September/October WEO publication.

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.