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OceaniaOceania is a name used for varying groups of islands of the Pacific Ocean. In its narrow usage it refers to Polynesia (including New Zealand), Melanesia (including New Guinea) and Micronesia. In a wider usage it includes Australia. It may also include the Malay archipelago. Uncommonly does usage include islands such as Japan and the Aleutian Islands. Although the islands of Oceania do not form part of a true continent, for the purposes of dividing the whole world into continents Oceania is sometimes associated with the continent of Australia. As such, it is the smallest continent in area and the second smallest, after Antarctica, in population. This article primarily refers to the grouping of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Australia.
In ecology, Oceania is one of eight terrestrial ecozones, which constitute the major ecological regions of the planet. The Oceania ecozone includes all of Micronesia, Fiji, and all of Polynesia except New Zealand. New Zealand, along with New Guinea and nearby islands, Australia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia, constitute the separate Australasia ecozone.
Almost every country in Oceania is borderless. The only exception is Papua New Guinea, which borders Indonesia.
Map
- See also: World map
Regions and Countries
Micronesia
Melanesia
Polynesia
Australasia
Territories in Oceania belonging to other continents' countries include:
Population density
This is a list of countries/dependencies by population density in inhabitants/km2.
Unlike the figures in the country articles, the figures in this table are based on areas including inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers) and may therefore be lower here.
| country
| pop. dens.
| area
| population
|
|
| (/km²)
| (km²)
| (2002-07-01 est.)
|
| Nauru
| 587
| 21
| 12,329
|
| Tuvalu
| 429
| 26
| 11,146
|
| Marshall Islands
| 407
| 181
| 73,630
|
| American Samoa (US)
| 345
| 199
| 68,688
|
| Guam (US)
| 293
| 549
| 160,796
|
| Micronesia
| 194
| 702
| 135,869
|
| Northern Mariana Islands (US)
| 162
| 477
| 77,311
|
| Tokelau (N.Z.)
| 143
| 10
| 1,431
|
| Tonga
| 142
| 748
| 106,137
|
| Kiribati
| 119
| 811
| 96,335
|
| Cook Islands (N.Z.)
| 87
| 240
| 20,811
|
| French Polynesia (Fr.)
| 62
| 4,167
| 257,847
|
| Samoa
| 61
| 2,944
| 178,631
|
| Wallis and Futuna (Fr.)
| 57
| 274
| 15,585
|
| Norfolk Island (Aus)
| 53
| 35
| 1,866
|
| Fiji
| 47
| 18,270
| 856,346
|
| Cocos Islands (Aus)
| 45
| 14
| 632
|
| Palau
| 42
| 458
| 19,409
|
| Solomon Islands
| 17
| 28,450
| 494,786
|
| Vanuatu
| 16
| 12,200
| 196,178
|
| New Zealand
| 15
| 268,680
| 3,908,037
|
| Papua New Guinea
| 11
| 462,840
| 5,172,033
|
| New Caledonia (Fr.)
| 11
| 19,060
| 207,858
|
| Niue (1)
| 8.2
| 260
| 2,134
|
| Christmas Island (Aus)
| 3.5
| 135
| 474
|
| Australia
| 2.5
| 7,686,850
| 19,546,792
|
| Pitcairn Islands (UK)
| 1.0
| 47
| 47
|
(1) Niue has strong ties with New Zealand
- See also: History of Oceania
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Oceania is also one of the three super-states in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and is the location of the novel's version of London where Winston Smith, the main character lives. It is composed of the two American continents, the British Isles, and the southern half of Africa below the Congo River. It also controls to a different degree at various times during the course of its eternal war with Eurasia and Eastasia: polar regions, the islands of the Pacific, Antartic regions; it occasionally conquers the rest of Africa, but is later driven back by Eurasia. Oceania doesn't have a single capital, although what could be seen as regional capitals such as London are in place. (See: Goldstein's book.)
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Index of Oceanian political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to parties, organizations, governments and media.
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