Continent Name Generator

Real continent names are surprisingly plain once you translate them. Asia and Europe probably come from Akkadian words for sunrise and sunset; Australia is Latin for "southern land"; Antarctica means "opposite the bear", the northern constellation; and America honours a mapmaker's first name. Geologists continue the tradition with Gondwana (a region of India), Laurasia (Laurentia plus Eurasia), and Rodinia (Russian for "motherland"). The lesson for worldbuilders is that continents get simple, sweeping names, often from a direction, a discoverer, or a founding myth, and the grandeur comes from age rather than syllables.

The list above works in several registers. Original single-word continents such as Vaeloria, Kesh, and Thessamar are built to sit comfortably beside kingdom and city names in the same tongue. Latin and Greek forms (Australis, Hesperia, Terra Incognita) suit scholarly or classical worlds. English descriptive names (the Sundering Coast, the Frostmarch, Eastreach) work well when the continent is named by settlers from elsewhere. Legendary and mythic lands like Meropis, Kumari Kandam, and Jambudvipa are drawn from real traditions and are excellent inspiration for a world's older cartography.

When you name continents, keep them short and phonetically distinct from one another. If your world has Vaeloria and Vindaris side by side, readers will mix them up; Vaeloria and Kesh they will not.