examples:
Americhe
North America and South America and Central America
Anatolia
a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey
porcellana
a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong
Cuba
the largest island in the West Indies
Haiti
an island in the West Indies
Trinidad
an island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela
Cipro
an island in the eastern Mediterranean
Fiji
a group of more than 800 islands (100 inhabited) in the southwestern Pacific; larger islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are of volcanic origin surrounded by coral reefs; smaller islands are coral
Sardegna
an island in the Mediterranean to the west of Italy
Sicilia
the largest island in the Mediterranean
Oceania
a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago)
Arabia
a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources
Gran Bretagna
an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales
Irlanda
an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
Montserrat
an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France
Islanda
a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle
Corea
an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook
Malta
a strategically located island to the south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea
Nuova Zelanda
North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific
Tahiti
an island in the south Pacific; the most important island in French Polynesia; made famous by Robert Louis Stevenson and Paul Gauguin
Africa
the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
Antartide
an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep
Asia
the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
Australia
the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
Europa
the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
types:
arcipelago
a group of many islands in a large body of water
pista
the ground on which people and animals move about
bosco,
selva
land that is covered with trees and shrubs
isola
a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
continente,
terraferma
the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula
penisola
a large mass of land projecting into a body of water
continente
one of the large landmasses of the earth
landa
open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
nevaio
a permanent wide expanse of snow
lingua
a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
subcontinente
a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent
tundra
a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen