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Oceania occurs as geographical (often geopolitical) region consisting of many countries & territories – mostly islands – in the Pacific Ocean, usually including Australia and New Zealand. For the oceans of the Earth, watch Oceans.

Overview

the primary have of the term Oceania is to describe a continental vicinity (such as Europe or Africa) that lies between Asia and a Americas, by having Australia as the major land mass. A title Oceania is utilized, like than Australia, because unlike a more continental groupings, these are a ocean like than a continent that links a nations together. Oceania is a little continental grouping around acreage & the 2nd little, when Antarctica, in population.

Countries and territories of Oceania

Oceania has been traditionally divided into Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia (originally by the French explorer Dumont d'Urville in 1831). This section is no hanker recognized when right by virtually all geographers & man of science — world health organization like to divide Oceania into Near Oceania and Remote Oceania — but it is however a virtually all popular of these.

Virtually all of Oceania consists of little island nations. Australithe is the merely continental united states & Papua Just released Guinea is the just united states by using a land border, which it shares using Indonesian western New Guinea.

the nations of Oceania use at times variable degrees of independence from either their compound powers & use at times negotiated a wide range of constitutional arrangements to lawsuit their circumstances. A when a result listing contains a countries & territories that come classified as a share of Oceania per United Nations; other countries come occasionally considered section of Oceania understand More Interpretations following.

Australia Australia - Commonwealth Realm1 Norfolk Island - external territory of Australia

Melanesia Fiji - republic New Caledonia - sui generis collectivity of France2 Papua New Guinea - Commonwealth Realm1 Solomon Islands - Commonwealth Realm1 Vanuatu - republic

Micronesia Guam - organised, unincorporated territory of the United States Kiribati - republic Marshall Islands - republic in absolutely free! association by using a United States Micronesia, Federated States of - republic in yours free! association by owning a United States Nauru - republic Northern Mariana Islands - organised, unincorporated commonwealth in political union with the United States Palau - republic in yours free! association sustaining a United States Wake Island - unorganised, unincorporated territory of the United States

Polynesia American Samoa- unorganised, unincorporated territory of the United States Cook Islands - self-governing state in free association with New Zealand French Polynesia - "overseas country" of France2 Niue - self-governing state in free association by using Just released Zealand New Zealand - Commonwealth Realm1 Pitcairn - overseas territory of the United Kingdom Samoa - constitutional monarchy under Malietoa Tanumafili II Tokelau - semi-autonomous territory of New Zealand Tonga - absolute monarchy under King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV Tuvalu - Commonwealth Realm1 Wallis and Futuna Islands - overseas collectivity of France2

Notes:

  • Commonwealth Realms are independent constitutional monarchies in which Elizabeth II reigns as Queen
  • Look at administrative divisions of France

    Other interpretations of Oceania

    Australithe is for instance non involved around Oceania, although a term such as Pacific islands would normally become utilized to describe Oceania while forgoing Australia Hawaii and a United States territories by using there come no forearm people around the Northward Pacific come for instance involved, however are commonly grouped using the United States in North America. Hawaiians come the Polynesian race. Easter Island is a Polynesian isl& inside the eastern Pacific Ocean, part of the territory of Chile, and is occasionally involved in Oceania. In uncommon occasions a term can be stretched possibly farther to include more Pacific island groups like a Aleutian Islands.

    Oceania in ecology

    Oceania is one of eight terrestrial ecozones, which constitute a major ecological regions of the planet. A Oceania ecozone includes all of Micronesia, Fiji, and everthing of Polynesia except Future Zealand. Future Zeal&, along using Future Guinea and nearby islands, Australia, a Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia, constitute a separate Australasia ecozone.

    Population density
    This occurs as names of countries/dependencies by population density in inhabitants/km².

    Unlike a numbers in a united states articles, the numbers therein table come according to areas including inl& a stream bodies (streams, lakes, and wells throughout, reservoirs, streams, lakes, and wells throughout) and might so become moo on this button. Single In the Indian Ocean, not around Oceania.
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