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Federal territories of sovereign states located outside these states' mainland. 2. Territories that constitute integral parts of sovereign states in some form other than as federal territories, where a significant part of the sovereign state's landmass is located outside Oceania or the territory is located outside the sovereign state's mainland.
English: Map of Polynesia based on the United Nations geoscheme M49 coding classification devised by the United Nations Statistics Division. Exceptions: New Zealand shown and so needs a qualifier description on any Wiki article; Hawaii and Easter Island shown which belong to USA and Chile in the 'Americas' geozone. SVG format.
Polynesia [a] (UK: / ˌ p ɒ l ɪ ˈ n iː z i ə / ⓘ POL-in-EE-zee-ə, US: /-ˈ n iː ʒ ə /- EE-zhə) is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.
Oceania with its sovereign states and dependent territories within the subregions Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Definitions of Oceania vary. [21] [22] [7] The broadest definition encompasses the many islands between mainland Asia and the Americas.
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]
Spanning the Eastern and Western hemispheres, at the centre of the water hemisphere, Oceania is estimated to have a land area of about 9,000,000 square kilometres (3,500,000 sq mi) and a population of around 46.3 million as of 2024. Oceania is the smallest continent in land area and the second-least populated after Antarctica.
Northern Mariana Islands (580) – Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (United States) Capital: Saipan Palau (585) – Republic of Palau Capital: Ngerulmud United States Minor Outlying Islands (581) (United States) [note 2] Capital: Washington, D.C. (administrative centre) Polynesia (061
The boundaries of Oceania are defined in a number of ways. Most definitions include parts of Australasia such as Australia , New Zealand , and New Guinea , and parts of Maritime Southeast Asia . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Ethnologically , the islands of Oceania are divided into the subregions of Melanesia , Micronesia , and Polynesia .