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Oceania
Oceania (sometimes Oceanica) is a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands—mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity. The term "Oceania" was coined in 1831 by French explorer Dumont d'Urville. The term is used today in many languages to denote a continent...
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American Samoa
American Samoa /əˈmɛrɪkən səˈmoʊə/ (help·info) (Samoan: Amerika Sāmoa or Sāmoa Amelika) is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa (formerly known as Western...
Area:
- 199 km² (76.8 mi² )
Baker Island
Baker Island (pronounced /ˈbeɪkər/) is an uninhabited atoll located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean about 3,100 kilometers (1,700 nmi) southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and Australia, and is...
Coral Sea Islands
The Coral Sea Islands Territory includes a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, Australia. The only inhabited island is Willis Island. The territory covers 780,000 km, extending...
Cook Islands
The Cook Islands /ˈkʊk ˈaɪləndz/ (help·info) (Cook Islands Māori: Kūki 'Āirani) are a self-governing parliamentary democracy in free association with New Zealand. The fifteen small islands in this South Pacific Ocean country have a total land area...
Area:
- 240 km² (92.7 mi² )
East Timor
East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste (Tetum: Timor Lorosae; officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste) is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecussi...
Area:
- 15,410 km² (5949.8 mi² )
Fiji
An island nation in the South Pacific Ocean east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of Tuvalu. The country occupies an archipelago of about 322 islands, of which 106 are permanently inhabited, and 522 islets. The two major islands, Viti Levu and...
Area:
- 18,274 km² (7055.6 mi² )
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French Polynesia
French Polynesia [ˈfrɛntʃ pɒlɨˈniːʒə] (help·info) (French: Polynésie française, Tahitian: Pōrīnetia Farāni) is a French overseas collectivity in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous...
Area:
- 4,167 km² (1609 mi² )
Guam
Guam ( /ˈɡwɑːm/ (help·info); Chamorro: Guåhån)is an island in the western Pacific Ocean and is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. The island's...
Area:
- 541.3 km² (209 mi² )
Howland Island
Howland Island (pronounced /ˈhaʊlənd/) is an uninhabited coral island located just north of the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, about 1,700 nautical miles (3,100 km) southwest of Honolulu. The island lies almost halfway between Hawaii and...
Jarvis Island
Jarvis Island (pronounced /ˈdʒɑrvɨs/; formerly known as Bunker Island) is an uninhabited 4.5 square kilometer (1.75 sq. mile) coral island located in the South Pacific Ocean at 0°22′S 160°01′W / 0.367°S 160.017°W / -0.367; -160.017, about halfway...
Johnston Atoll
Johnston Atoll is a 50-square-mile (130 km) atoll in the North Pacific Ocean about 1400 km (750 nmi) west of Hawaii. There are four islands located on the coral reef platform, two natural islands, Johnston Island and Sand Island, which have been...
Kingman Reef
Kingman Reef (pronounced /ˈkɪŋmən/) is a largely submerged uninhabited tropical atoll located in the North Pacific Ocean, roughly half way between the Hawaiian Islands and American Samoa at 6°24′N 162°24′W / 6.4°N 162.4°W / 6.4; -162.4. It is the...
Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands /ˈmɑrʃəl ˈaɪləndz/ (help·info), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), is a Micronesian nation of atolls and islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, just west of the International Date Line and just north of...
Area:
- 181 km² (69.9 mi² )
Midway Atoll
Midway Atoll (or Midway Island or Midway Islands, pronounced /ˈmɪdweɪ/; Hawaiian: Pihemanu Kauihelani ) is a 2.4 mi² (6.2 km²) atoll located in the North Pacific Ocean (near the northwestern end of the Hawaiian archipelago), about one-third of the...
Niue
Niue (pronounced /ˈnjuːeɪ/ in English) is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean. It is commonly known as the "Rock of Polynesia", and natives of the island call it "the Rock".
Though self governing, Niue is in free association with New Zealand...
Area:
- 260 km² (100 mi² )
Nauru
Nauru /nɑːˈuːruː/ (help·info), officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island nation in Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbor is Banaba Island in Kiribati, 300 km to the east. Nauru is the world...
Area:
- 21 km² (8.1 mi² )
New Caledonia
New Caledonia (French: officially: Nouvelle-Calédonie; colloquially: (la) Calédonie; popular nicknames: (la) Kanaky, (le) Caillou), is a "sui generis collectivity" of France located in the region of Melanesia in the southwest Pacific. It comprises a...
Area:
- 18,575 km² (7171.8 mi² )
Northern Mariana Islands
The Northern Mariana Islands /ˈnɔrðərn mɛəriˈænə ˈaɪləndz/ (help·info), officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), is a commonwealth in political union with the United States, occupying a strategic region of the western...
Area:
- 477 km² (184 mi² )
Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island [ˈnɔː(r)fək ˈaɪlənd] (help·info) (Norfuk: Norfuk Ailen) is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. It and two neighbouring islands form one of Australia's external territories....
Area:
- 34.6 km² (13.4 mi² )
Palmyra Atoll
Palmyra Atoll (pronounced /pælˈmaɪrə/) is an incorporated atoll administered by the United States federal government. The atoll is 4.6 sq mi (12 km), and it is located in the Northern Pacific Ocean. Geographically, Palmyra is one of the Northern...
Pitcairn Islands
The Pitcairn Islands (pronounced /ˈpɪtkɛən/; Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially named the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The islands are a British overseas territory ...
Area:
- 47 km² (18 mi² )
Samoa
Samoa /səˈmoʊə/ (help·info), officially the Independent State of Samoa (formerly known as Western Samoa and German Samoa), is a country governing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New...
Area:
- 2,831 km² (1093 mi² )
Tokelau
Tokelau (pronounced /ˈtoʊkəlaʊ/) is a territory of New Zealand that consists of three tropical coral atolls in the South Pacific Ocean. The United Nations General Assembly designated Tokelau a Non-Self-Governing Territory. Until 1976 the official...
Area:
- 10 km² (3.9 mi² )
Tonga
Tonga (pronounced /toŋa/), officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprises 169 islands, 36 of which are inhabited, and stretches over a distance of about 800 kilometres (500...
Area:
- 748 km² (289 mi² )
Tuvalu
Tuvalu ( /tuːˈvɑːluː/ (help·info) or /ˈtuːvəluː/), formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbours are Kiribati, Samoa and Fiji. It...
Area:
- 26 km² (10 mi² )
Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( /ˌvɑːnuːˈɑːtuː/ (help·info) or /ˌvænˈwɑːtuː/), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (French: République de Vanuatu, Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of...
Area:
- 12,189 km² (4706.2 mi² )
Wake Island
Wake Island (also known as Wake Atoll, pronounced /ˈweɪk/) is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19 kilometers) in the North Pacific Ocean, located about two-thirds of the way from Honolulu (2,300 statute miles or 3,700 km west) to Guam ...
Area:
- 10.5222 km² (4.06264 mi² )
Wallis and Futuna
Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (French: Wallis et Futuna or Territoire des îles Wallis et Futuna, Fakauvea and Fakafutuna: Uvea mo Futuna), is a Polynesian French island territory (but not part of, or...
Area:
- 264 km² (102 mi² )
Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands /ˈsɒləmən ˈaɪləndz/ (help·info) is a country in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. Together they cover a land mass of 28,400 square kilometres (10,965 sq mi). The capital is Honiara,...
Area:
- 28,896 km² (11157 mi² )
Viti Levu
Viti Levu (pronounced [ˈβiti ˈleβu]) is the largest island in the Republic of Fiji, the site of the nation's capital, Suva, and home to a large majority of Fiji's population.
The largest island, Viti Levu (pronounced Vee-tee Le-vu) is home to 70% of...
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (commonly called the North Island and the South Island), and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
Area:
- 268,680 km² (103738 mi² )
