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Deaths in Oceania by country (4 C) Murder in Oceania by country (11 C) A. Death in Australia (8 C, 1 P) F. ... Death in Papua New Guinea (4 C, 1 P) S. Death in Samoa ...
Country Number of deaths (2023) China 11,684,177 India 9,507,008 United States 2,975,658 Nigeria 2,675,442 Indonesia 2,117,706 Russia 1,794,857 Pakistan 1,600,313
Some of these people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the states or territories of Oceania. The region of Oceania was the last continent where the Catholic Church arrived. Consequently, it is the continent with the fewest Catholic saints. Mother Mary of the Cross (Mary MacKillop), the first saint from Australia.
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the geographical region of Oceania. Although it is mostly ocean and spans many tectonic plates, Oceania is occasionally listed as one of the continents. Most of this list follows the boundaries of geopolitical Oceania, which includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
A German map of Oceania from 1884, showing the region to encompass Australia and all islands between Asia and Latin America French writer Gustave d'Eichthal remarked in 1844 that, "the boundaries of Oceania are in reality those of the great ocean itself."
As many as 2,000 people are feared to have been buried by last week’s massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, according to the country’s National Disaster Centre, as survivors recounted the ...
The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries, the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies. See List of extinct countries, empires, etc. and Former countries in Europe after 1815 for articles about countries that are no longer in existence.
Papua New Guinea [note 1] [13] is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has a land border with Indonesia to the west and neighbours Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east.