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Pacific Rim. Countries in blue border the Pacific Rim. The Pacific Rim comprises the lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Basin includes the Pacific Rim and the islands in the Pacific Ocean. [1] The Pacific Rim roughly overlaps with the geological Pacific Ring of Fire.
Diagram of the geological process of subduction. The Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) [ note 1 ] is a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes. It is about 40,000 km (25,000 mi) long [ 1 ] and up to about 500 km (310 mi) wide, [ 2 ] and surrounds most of the ...
The Asia–Pacific (APAC) is the region of the world adjoining the western Pacific Ocean. The region's precise boundaries vary depending on context, but countries and territories in Australasia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia are often included. In a wider context, Central Asia, North Asia, the Pacific Islands, South Asia, West Asia (including ...
Rebecca Fatima Santa Maria. Establishment. 1989 ; 35 years ago(1989) Website www.apec.org. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC / ˈeɪpɛk / AY-pek[ 1 ]) is an inter-governmental forum for 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region. [ 2 ]
The five main islands: Hokkaido - the northernmost and second largest main island. Honshu - the largest and most populous island; home of the capital Tokyo. Kyushu - the third largest main island and closest to the Asian continent. Shikoku - the second smallest main island after Okinawa; between Honshu and Kyushu.
The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean. At 103 million km 2 (40 million sq mi), it is the largest tectonic plate. [2] The plate first came into existence as a microplate 190 million years ago, at the triple junction between the Farallon, Phoenix, and Izanagi Plates. The Pacific Plate subsequently grew ...
In 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and encountered the Pacific Ocean, calling it the South Sea. In 1521, a Spanish expedition led by the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan was the first recorded crossing of the Pacific Ocean, Magellan then naming it the "peaceful sea."
The allure of easier access to and spreading civilizing influence over territories throughout the Pacific Rim incentivized America to expand westward, [15] with its borders and influence reaching Asia by the mid-to-late 19th century in a kind of extended "Manifest Destiny", [16] and America taking over Guam and the Philippines and dispelling ...