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The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.
Pacific Islands.png Module:Location map/data/Pacific Islands is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Pacific Islands . The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Map of the islands of the Federated States of Micronesia. List of the islands of the Federated States of Micronesia, in the central and western Caroline Islands Archipelago of the Western Pacific Ocean. The islands are within the Micronesia cultural and ecological region of Oceania. There are 607 islands and islets in the Federated States of ...
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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 ...
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
List of settlements in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands; List of villages and neighbourhoods in the Cook Islands; List of cities in French Polynesia; List of villages in Guam; List of places in Hawaii; List of cities in New Caledonia; List of villages in Niue; List of settlements in Norfolk Island; List of villages in the Northern Mariana Islands