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  2. List of seas on Earth - Wikipedia

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    Ocean – the four to seven largest named bodies of water in the World Ocean, all of which have "Ocean" in the name (see: Borders of the oceans for details). Sea has several definitions: [a] A division of an ocean, delineated by landforms, [6] currents (e.g., Sargasso Sea), or specific latitude or longitude boundaries. This includes but is not ...

  3. File:Whole world - land and oceans 12000.jpg - Wikipedia

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  4. World map - Wikipedia

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    A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.

  5. File:World map ocean locator-en.svg - Wikipedia

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    This map was improved or created by the Wikigraphists of the Graphic Lab (fr). You can propose images to clean up, improve, create or translate as well. This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape .

  6. File:Oceans and seas boundaries map-en.svg - Wikipedia

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    This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version.Modifications: Translated remaining French labels, fixed some English labels, added missing sea and lake names, added missing lake, refactored text styling of some labels to match the rest, fixed rainbow of colors assigned to random islands, added missing Malta and Bermuda islands.

  7. Mecca - Wikipedia

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    Mecca has been referred to by many names. As with many Arabic words, its etymology is obscure. [24] Widely believed to be a synonym for Makkah, it is said to be more specifically the early name for the valley located therein, while Muslim scholars generally use it to refer to the sacred area of the city that immediately surrounds and includes the Ka'bah.

  8. List of archipelagos - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of archipelagos, organised by oceans then seas and finally arranged alphabetically. Geographically isolated islands are included as well. Geographically isolated islands are included as well.

  9. Borders of the oceans - Wikipedia

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    The borders of the oceans are the limits of Earth's oceanic waters.The definition and number of oceans can vary depending on the adopted criteria. The principal divisions (in descending order of area) of the five oceans are the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern (Antarctic) Ocean, and Arctic Ocean.