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Location of Oceania. The following outline is provided as an overview and topical guide to Oceania. Oceania is a geographical, and geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term is also sometimes used to denote a continent comprising Australia and proximate Pacific islands.
George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose wartime BBC career influenced his creation of Oceania. What is known of the society, politics and economics of Oceania, and its rivals, comes from the in-universe book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, a literary device Orwell uses to connect the past and present of 1984. [1]
For political reasons, the United Nations considers the boundary between the two regions to be the Indonesian–Papua New Guinean border. [2] Papua New Guinea is occasionally considered Asian as it neighbours Indonesia, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] but this is rare, and it is generally accepted to be part of Oceania.
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."
Below are separate lists of countries and dependencies with their land boundaries, and lists of which countries and dependencies border oceans and major seas.The first short section describes the borders or edges of continents and oceans/major seas.
Below is a list of countries and dependencies in Oceania by area. [1] Australia is the largest country in Oceania while Nauru is the smallest. Country / dependency %
The UNSD notes that "the assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories". [1] The number between parentheses is the UN M49 code (009 for the whole of Oceania).
Maps of Oceania. Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of Oceania. Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of the Oceans.