{"population":5000,"blurb":{"text":"Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of 14,200,000 km2 (5,500,000 sq mi). Most of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of 1.9 km (1.2 mi).","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica"},"vexillology":{"text":"Throughout history, various flag designs have been proposed to represent the uninhabited territory of Antarctica in a manner similar to national flags representing countries. Because Antarctica is governed as a condominium, there is no institution that can adopt an official flag, so all flags are used unofficially.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Antarctica"},"flagDesign":null,"photos":["https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Crab_Nebula.jpg/500px-Crab_Nebula.jpg","https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Cercophonius_squama.jpg/500px-Cercophonius_squama.jpg","https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/1657_map_Polus_Antarcticus.jpg/500px-1657_map_Polus_Antarcticus.jpg","https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/2008_South_Pole_marker_1.jpg/500px-2008_South_Pole_marker_1.jpg"],"absent":["flagDesign"]}