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12 km 2 (5 sq mi) Wake Island: Unincorporated territory of the United States: English: Wake Island [31] None: Uninhabited [31] 6.5 km 2 (2.5 sq mi) Wallis and Futuna Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands Overseas collectivity of France: French: Wallis et Futuna — Territoire des Iles Wallis et Futuna [20] Mata-Utu [22] [24] 15,398 [30 ...
The United Nations geoscheme subdivides the region into Australia and New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. 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]
Fiji has the highest percentage of Hindus in Oceania at 29.7% [317] In absolute numbers, Australia has the largest population of Hindus in Oceania constituting 2.7% of the country's population. [318] In New Zealand, Hindus form 2.65% of the population of. [319] Samoa also has a significant Hindu population. [320]
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]
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 .
[10]: 1 He ultimately concludes that the region is a historical category which evolved in the nineteenth century from the discoveries made in the Pacific and has been legitimated by use and further research in the region. It covers populations that have a certain linguistic, biological and cultural affinity – a certain ill-defined sameness ...
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. ... 4.7%: 416,060 ...
Countries in Oceania by region (4 C) Dependent territories in Oceania by region (3 C) M. Geography of Melanesia (8 C, 12 P) Geography of Micronesia (9 C, 9 P) P.