In which continent does the world's smallest species of turtle live?

The question asks for the world's smallest species of turtle yet the answer is the world's smallest species of tortoise. They are two different creatures tortoises spend most of their time on land and turtles are adapted for life spent in water.

I had no idea! Wow, Nature is always a surprise!

While the Speckled Padloper is technically a tortoise, you are probably wondering what is the smallest turtle species. Meet the North American bog turtle or glyptemys muhlenbergii.Coming in at a blistering size of 4.5 inches long (11 cm), this tiny guy not only holds the crown of smallest turtle in the United States, but it is also the smallest turtle on the entire North American continent! These small turtles can be found in marshes that stretch across much of the eastern band of the United States. They are easily recognizable by the small orange or yellow spot on either side of their black-colored heads. Although the bog turtle has been listed as a protected species in the United States since 1995, researchers and environmentalists have been perplexed

One out of three voted for Antarctica.

I may be wrong but I don’t think this breed can swim so it is more likely to be a tortoise.. not a turtle (a misnomer)

South Africa is not a continent

Keith Richard Mears, Not true sir. I see it everywhere I go.

Hernando Villegas, No a turtle lives in the water and tortoise lives on land.

Turtle and tortoise are they one and the same?