Asked by Makayla

What should be applied to the names of continents?

italics
parentheses
apostrophe
quotation marks
capitalization
hyphen

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Capitalization.

Continent names are proper nouns and should be capitalized (Asia, Africa, Europe, etc.). They are not normally italicized, put in parentheses or quotation marks, or given an apostrophe. A hyphen is only used when the continent name appears in a compound form (e.g., Asia-Pacific).