Melanesia

Melanesia is a subregion of in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from in the west to the Fiji Islands in the east, and includes the Arafura Sea.
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Melanesia

  • Region with about 11,100,000 residents
  • Description: subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific, extending from New Guinea to Fiji; comprising Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, and New Caledonia; bordered by Southeast Asia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Australia
  • Neighbors:
  • Categories
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    cultural region
  • Location:
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Latitude of center
-18.9° or 18° 54′ south
Longitude of center
174.2° or 174° 12′ east
Wiki­data ID
Q37394

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Melanesia” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Melanesia”
  • Afrikaans: “Melanesia”
  • Afrikaans: “Melanesië”
  • Albanian: “Melanesia”
  • Amharic: “መላኔዥያ”
  • Arabic: “ميلانيزيا”
  • Arabic: “ميلانيسيا”
  • Armenian: “Մելանեզիա”
  • Arpitan: “Mèlanèsia”
  • Arpitan: “Mèlanèsie”
  • Asturian: “Melanesia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Melaneziya”
  • Balinese: “Mélanésia”
  • Basque: “Melanesia”
  • Bavarian: “Melanesien”
  • Belarusian: “Меланезія”
  • Belarusian: “Мэланэзія”
  • Bengali: “মেলানেশিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Melanezija”
  • Breton: “Melanezia”
  • Bulgarian: “Меланезия”
  • Burmese: “မီလန်နီးရှား”
  • Catalan: “Melanèsia”
  • Cebuano: “Melanesia”
  • Central Bikol: “Melanesya”
  • Chechen: “Меланези”
  • Chinese: “美拉尼西亚”
  • Chinese: “美拉尼西亚群岛”
  • Chinese: “美拉尼西亞”
  • Chuvash: “Меланези”
  • Croatian: “Melanezija”
  • Czech: “Melanésie”
  • Czech: “Melanézie”
  • Danish: “Melanesien”
  • Dutch: “Melanesië”
  • Esperanto: “Melanezio”
  • Estonian: “Melaneesia”
  • Faroese: “Melanesia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Melanesia”
  • Fijian: “Melanesia”
  • Finnish: “Melanesia”
  • French: “Mélanésie”
  • French: “Mélanésien”
  • French: “Mélanésienne”
  • French: “Mélanésiens”
  • Galician: “Melanesia”
  • Georgian: “მელანეზია”
  • German: “Melanesien”
  • German: “Melanesisch”
  • Greek: “Μελανησία”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Mélanézi”
  • Hebrew: “מלאנזיה”
  • Hebrew: “מלנזיה”
  • Hebrew: “מלנזים”
  • Hindi: “मेलानिशिया”
  • Hindi: “मेलानेसिया”
  • Hungarian: “Melanézia”
  • Icelandic: “Melanesía”
  • Ido: “Melanezia”
  • Iloko: “Melanesia”
  • Indonesian: “Melanesia”
  • Interlingue: “Melanesia”
  • Irish: “An Mheilinéis”
  • Italian: “Melanesia”
  • Japanese: “メラネシア”
  • Javanese: “Mèlanésia”
  • Kazakh: “Меланезия”
  • Kinaray-A: “Melanesya”
  • Kinaray-A: “Milanisya”
  • Kirghiz: “Меланезия”
  • Korean: “멜라네시아”
  • Korean: “멜라네시아인”
  • Kotava: “Melanesia”
  • Kurdish: “Melanezya”
  • Lao: “ເມລາເນຊີ”
  • Latin: “Melanesia”
  • Latvian: “Melanēzija”
  • Limburgan: “Melanesië”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Melanesia”
  • Lithuanian: “Melanezija”
  • Luxembourgish: “Melanesien”
  • Macedonian: “Меланезија”
  • Malagasy: “Melanezia”
  • Malay: “Melanesia”
  • Maltese: “Melanesja”
  • Marathi: “मेलनेशिया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Melanesia”
  • Mingrelian: “მელანეზია”
  • Nepali: “मेलानेसिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Melaneesien”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Melanesia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melanesia”
  • Norwegian: “Melanesia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Melanesia”
  • Ossetian: “Меланези”
  • Pampanga: “Melanesia”
  • Papiamento: “Melanesia”
  • Persian: “ملانزی”
  • Polish: “Melanezja”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Melanésias”
  • Portuguese: “Melanésia”
  • Quechua: “Milanisya”
  • Romanian: “Melanezia”
  • Russian: “Меланезия”
  • Samoan: “Gagana Vanuatu”
  • Samoan: “Melanisia”
  • Samogitian: “Melanezėjė”
  • Sardinian: “Melanèsia”
  • Scots: “Melanesia”
  • Scots: “Melanesie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Melanìsia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “na h-Eileanan Dubha”
  • Serbian: “Меланезија”
  • Serbian: “Меланезије”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Melanezija”
  • Silesian: “Melanezyjŏ”
  • Sindhi: “ميلئنيزيا”
  • Slovak: “Melanézia”
  • Slovenian: “Melanezija”
  • Spanish: “Melanesia”
  • Swahili: “Melanesia”
  • Swedish: “Melanesien”
  • Swedish: “Melanesier”
  • Swiss German: “Melanesie”
  • Swiss German: “Melanesien”
  • Tagalog: “Melanesya”
  • Tamil: “மெலனேசியா”
  • Tatar: “Меланезия”
  • Telugu: “మెలనేషియా”
  • Thai: “เมลานีเชีย”
  • Thai: “เมลานีเซีย”
  • Tok Pisin: “Melanesia”
  • Turkish: “Melanezya”
  • Turkmen: “Melaneziýa”
  • Uighur: “مېلانېزىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Меланезія”
  • Urdu: “میلانیشیا”
  • Uzbek: “Melaneziya”
  • Venetian: “Mełanèzia”
  • Vietnamese: “Melanesia”
  • Vlaams: “Melanesië”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Melanesia”
  • Welsh: “Melanesia”
  • Western Frisian: “Melaneezje”
  • Western Mari: “Меланези”
  • Western Panjabi: “میلانیشیا”
  • Wolof: “Melaneesi”
  • Wolof: “Melanesi”
  • Wu Chinese: “美拉尼西亚”
  • Yoruba: “Melanésíà”
  • Yue Chinese: “美拉尼西亞”
  • “ma lili Melanesija”

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