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Continent

Continent is a direct Landform subtype for the seven continents (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America). It adds no properties of its own.

Use containsPlace to list countries, or sameAs to link to Wikidata. Continents are Landform (geographic) not AdministrativeArea (political).

Full example of schema.org/Continent json-ld markup

The markup is verified as valid with Rich Results Test from Google.

schema.org/Continent
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Continent",
  "name": "North America",
  "description": "The continent containing Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.",
  "sameAs": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49"
}
</script>

Minimal valid version

The smallest markup that still produces a valid Continent entity. Use it as the floor. Reach for the advanced example above when you want search engines and AI agents to understand more about your content.

schema.org/Continent (minimal)
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Continent",
  "name": "North America"
}
</script>

Google rich results this unlocks

Continent is a structural type. It does not produce a rich result on its own.

Its value comes from combining it with a primary type whose markup earns a rich result (Article, Product, Event, and so on). Continent becomes the trunk that the primary type branches off viamainEntityorbreadcrumb. Include it on every page as the backbone of your markup.

Common Continent mistakes

Mistakes that pass validation but silently fail to earn rich results or mislead consumers walking the graph. Avoid these and your markup will be ahead of most sites in the wild.

  1. 01

    Continent for a region

    Wrong
    Continent for subcontinental regions like 'Eastern Europe'
    Right
    AdministrativeArea or a bare Place for non-continental regions

    Continent is for the seven continents specifically. Sub-regions aren't continents.

Schema properties in this example

ContinentLandformPlacenamedescriptionsameAscontainsPlaceAdministrativeArea

Also mentioned in 1 other example

Continent also appears in Landform. See the full Continent schema page for every reference.

About the example data

North America, containing the Xoo Code universe's Dunmore, PA.

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