APIs/Continent

Continent API

GET /continent/{code}

Look up a continent by two-letter code. Country and postal hang off this layer.

Pass NA, EU, AF, AS, OC, SA, or AN for name, region, and area. List every country in that continent at /continent/{code}/countries.

Try it

$ curl "https://api.parseapi.com/continent/na" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

// 200 · ~13ms · USA
{
  "continent": "NA",
  "name": "North America",
  "region": "Americas",
  "subregion": "Northern America",
  "population": 600000000,
  "area": 24709000,
  "emoji": "🌎"
}

Response fields

continent
Continent code (NA, EU, AF, AS, OC, SA, AN)
name
Common name
region
Broader region
subregion
UN subregion
population
Population estimate
area
Land area in km²
emoji
Continent emoji

SPEED

Fast from everywhere.

Median time for a /continent response to reach a real city, first byte back, measured live from 16 cities. Not a lab benchmark. The whole trip.

US

13ms

EU

16ms

APAC

43ms

LatAm

16ms

ME

126ms

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