Multipolar World In The Making?

The earth surface consists of three basic components air, water and land. Water covers 70.8 per cent of total earth area while only 29.2 per cent is the land surface. The land area is divided into different continents - Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, South America and North America and Antarctica, while the water part is divided into different oceans which are - Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Arctic Oceans. Both the continents and oceans are further divided into-subsystems. The sub-systems include different regions that are classified on geographic, economic, strategic, cultural and maritime basis.