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1851 map of Pacific listing colonial names of individual islands. Since the beginning of the 19th century, Australia and the islands of the Pacific have been grouped by geographers into a region called Oceania. [17] [18] It is often used as a quasi-continent, with the Pacific Ocean being the defining characteristic. [19]
Map English short and formal names [20] Status Domestic short and formal names Capital Population Area [28] American Samoa Territory of American Samoa [22] Unincorporated territory of the United States: English: American Samoa — Territory of American Samoa Samoan: Amerika Sāmoa: Pago Pago [22] [24] 67,242 [30] 199 km 2 (77 sq mi) Ashmore and ...
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Map depicts sovereign states and a de facto state (tw) fully located on islands: those with land borders shaded green, and those without shaded dark blue. Countries/territories not shown on the map: Antarctica (aq) (continental disputed territory), Australia (au) (continental country), the Cook Islands (ck) and Niue (nu) (free association with New Zealand), Greenland (gl) (constituent country ...
World map of the five-ocean model with approximate boundaries. This list of countries which border two or more oceans includes both sovereign states and dependencies, provided the same contiguous territory borders on more than one of the five named oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. [1]
Abrolhos Archipelago; Belcher Islands; Bermuda Islands; Bocas del Toro; Broken Islands; Corn Islands; Cranberry Isles; Diego Ramírez Islands; Falkland Islands
The Pacific Islands, sparsely populated but strategically located, have outsize influence in the competition between the US and China. The Pacific's smallest countries are 'critical geostrategic ...
This is a list of islands in Oceania by area.It includes all islands in Oceania greater than 10 km 2 (3.9 sq mi), sorted in descending order by area. No Indonesian islands outside the provinces of Western New Guinea or any other island of the Malay Archipelago are included.