Insular Oceania
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geographic region comprising Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia
Key facts
- Area
- 9,000,000 km (3,500,000 sq mi) ( 7th )
- Population
- 44,491,724 (2021, 6th )
- Population density
- 4.94/km (12.8/sq mi)
- Gdp nominal
- $1.630 trillion (2018, 6th )
- Gdp per capita
- $63,842 (2024, 2nd )
- Religions
- 62.1% Christianity 32.7% Protestantism 24.1% Catholicism 4.8% other Christian 36.4% no religion 1.3% other
- Demonym
- Oceanian
- Countries
- UN members ( 14 ) Australia Chile (via Easter Island) Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Indonesia (via Western New Guinea provinces) United States (via Hawaiʻi) Associated ( 2 ) Cook Islands Niue
- Time zones
- UTC+9 ( Papua , Palau ) to UTC–6 ( Easter Island ), (west to east)
- Largest cities
- 10 largest cities in Oceania Sydney , Australia Melbourne , Australia Brisbane , Australia Perth , Australia Auckland , New Zealand Adelaide , Australia Honolulu , United States Gold Coast – Tweed Heads , Australia Christchurch , New Zealand Newcastle – Maitland , Australia
- Un m49 code
- 009 – Oceania, 001 – World
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- subcontinent
- Part of
- Oceania
- Has part
- Remote Oceania
- Population
- 12355695
- Area
- 1260000
- Time zone
- UTC+13:00
- Image
- Oceania-map.JPG
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- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Insular Oceania
- topic's main category
- Category:Insular Oceania
- number of out-of-school children
- 1142102
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Insular Oceania
- does not have part
- Australian continent
- different from
- Pacific Islands
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Oceania ( UK: /ˌoʊ.si.ˈɑː.ni.ə, ˌoʊ.ʃi.-, -ˈeɪ.n-/ OH-s(h)ee-AH-nee-ə, -AY-, US: /ˌoʊ.ʃi.ˈæ.ni.ə, -ˈɑː.n-/ OH-shee-A(H)N-ee-ə) is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Oceania is also described as a continent, with mainland Australia regarded as its continental landmass.
Spanning the Eastern and Western hemispheres, at the centre of the water hemisphere, Oceania is estimated to have a land area of about 9,000,000 square kilometres (3,500,000 sq mi) and a population of around 46.3 million as of 2024, when including Australia but excluding the Malay Archipelago. When compared against other continental land areas, Oceania is the smallest and the second-least populated after Antarctica. It is home to Earth’s third-largest remaining area of tropical rainforest, which covers much of the island of New Guinea.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Insular Oceania” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.