Oceania

Oceania is a vast, arbitrarily defined expanse of the world where the Pacific Ocean – rather than land borders – connects the nations. It is home to glistening white beaches, coconut palms swaying in the breeze, beautiful coral reefs, and rugged volcanic islands rising out of the blue ocean.
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Essential Destinations

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There is nowhere else quite like , nicknamed…

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is the most far-flung, easterly region of Oceania.

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is one of the most beautiful countries…

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, in northwest Oceania, is the home…

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is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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The Independent State of comprises…

Oceania

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Latitude of center
-20° or 20° south
Longitude of center
137° east
Wiki­data ID
Q55643

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Oceania” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Океаниа”
  • Achinese: “Oseania”
  • Adyghe: “Океание”
  • Afrikaans: “Australië en Oseanië”
  • Afrikaans: “Oseanië en Australië”
  • Afrikaans: “Oseanië”
  • Albanian: “Oqeania”
  • Amharic: “ኦሺያኒያ”
  • Amharic: “ኦሽያኒያ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ὠκεανία”
  • Angika: “ओशिनिया”
  • Angika: “ओशीनिया”
  • Arabic: “أستراليا وأوقيانوسيا”
  • Arabic: “أوقيانوسيا وأستراليا”
  • Arabic: “أوقيانوسيا”
  • Arabic: “الأقيانوس”
  • Aragonese: “Australia y Oceanía”
  • Aragonese: “Oceanía y Australia”
  • Aragonese: “Oceanía”
  • Armenian: “Օվկիանիա”
  • Arpitan: “Ocèania”
  • Assamese: “ওচেনিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Australia y Oceanía”
  • Asturian: “Oceanía y Australia”
  • Asturian: “Oceanía”
  • Atayal: “Tayangco”
  • Awadhi: “ओशिआनिया”
  • Aymara: “Oseaniya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Avstraliya və Okeaniya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Okeaniya və Avstraliya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Okeaniya”
  • Balinese: “Oséania”
  • Bambara: “Oseania”
  • Bambara: “Oseyani”
  • Banjar: “Oseania”
  • Banjar: “Usiania”
  • Bashkir: “Австралия һәм Океания”
  • Bashkir: “Океания һәм Австралия”
  • Bashkir: “Океания”
  • Basque: “Ozeania”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Oseania”
  • Batak Toba: “Oseania”
  • Bavarian: “Australien und Ozeanien”
  • Bavarian: “Ozeanien und Australien”
  • Bavarian: “Ozeanien”
  • Belarusian: “Акіянія і Аўстралія”
  • Belarusian: “Акіянія”
  • Belarusian: “Аўстралія і Акіянія”
  • Bengali: “ওশিয়ানিয়া”
  • Bengali: “ওশেনিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Oséani”
  • Bhojpuri: “ओशिनिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “ওশেনিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Osenia mo Ostrelia”
  • Bislama: “Osenia”
  • Bislama: “Ostrelia mo Osenia”
  • Bosnian: “Australija i Okeanija”
  • Bosnian: “Okeanija i Australija”
  • Bosnian: “Okeanija”
  • Breton: “Aostralia hag Okeania”
  • Breton: “Okeania hag Aostralia”
  • Breton: “Okeania”
  • Bulgarian: “Австралия и Океания”
  • Bulgarian: “Океания и Австралия”
  • Bulgarian: “Океания”
  • Burmese: “အိုရှန်းနီးယား”
  • Catalan: “Austràlia i Oceania”
  • Catalan: “Oceania i Austràlia”
  • Catalan: “Oceania”
  • Cebuano: “Oseyaniya”
  • Central Bikol: “Oseanya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Oceania”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئوسترالیا و ئۆقیانووسیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆقیانووسیا”
  • Chavacano: “Oceania”
  • Chechen: “Австрали а, Океани а”
  • Chechen: “Океани”
  • Chinese: “大洋洲”
  • Chinese: “澳大利亚和大洋洲”
  • Chinese: “澳大利亞和大洋洲”
  • Chinese: “澳洲和大洋洲”
  • Church Slavic: “Аѵстралїꙗ и Ѡкєанїꙗ”
  • Church Slavic: “Ѡкєанїꙗ и Аѵстралїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Австрали тата Океани”
  • Chuvash: “Океани”
  • Cornish: “Oceania”
  • Corsican: “Oceania”
  • Corsican: “Uceania”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Avstraliya ve Okeaniya”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Okeaniya ve Avstraliya”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Okeaniya”
  • Croatian: “Oceanija”
  • Czech: “Austrálie a Oceánie”
  • Czech: “Oceánie a Austrálie”
  • Czech: “Oceánie”
  • Danish: “Australien og Oceanien”
  • Danish: “Oceanien og Australien”
  • Danish: “Oceanien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Avstralye u Okyanusya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Okyanusya”
  • Dinka: “Othyania”
  • Dotyali: “ओशिनिया”
  • Dutch: “Australië en Oceanië”
  • Dutch: “Oceanië en Australië”
  • Dutch: “Oceanië”
  • Eastern Mari: “Океаний”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوستراليا واوشيانيا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوشيانيا واوستراليا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوشيانيا”
  • Emilian: “Uceàgna”
  • Esperanto: “Aŭstralio kaj Oceanio”
  • Esperanto: “Oceanio kaj Aŭstralio”
  • Esperanto: “Oceanio”
  • Estonian: “Austraalia ja Okeaania”
  • Estonian: “Okeaania ja Austraalia”
  • Ewe: “Oceania”
  • Extremaduran: “Oceania”
  • Extremaduran: “Oceanía”
  • Faroese: “Osiania”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Oceania”
  • Finnish: “Australia ja Oseania”
  • Finnish: “Oseania ja Australia”
  • Finnish: “Oseania”
  • French: “Australie et Océanie”
  • French: “Océanie et Australie”
  • French: “Océanie”
  • Friulian: “Oceanie”
  • Fulah: “Oseyaaniya”
  • Gagauz: “Okeaniya”
  • Galician: “Oceanía”
  • Gan Chinese: “大洋洲”
  • Georgian: “ოკეანეთი”
  • German: “Australien und Ozeanien”
  • German: “Ozeanien und Australien”
  • German: “Ozeanien”
  • Gilaki: “اۊقیانۊسيه”
  • Gothic: “𐍉𐌺𐌴𐌰𐌽𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Αυστραλία και Ωκεανία”
  • Greek: “Ωκεανία και Αυστραλία”
  • Greek: “Ωκεανία”
  • Guarani: “Autarália ha Oseanía”
  • Guarani: “Oceanía”
  • Guarani: “Oseanía”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Loséyanni”
  • Haitian: “Oseyani”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thai-yòng-chû”
  • Hausa: “Osheniya”
  • Hebrew: “אוסטרליה”
  • Hebrew: “אוקיאניה”
  • Hindi: “ओशिआनिया”
  • Hungarian: “Ausztrália és Óceánia”
  • Hungarian: “Óceánia és Ausztrália”
  • Hungarian: “Óceánia”
  • Iban: “Oceania”
  • Icelandic: “Eyjaálfa”
  • Ido: “Oceania”
  • Igbo: “Oshịnia”
  • Iloko: “Oceania”
  • Inari Sami: “Australia já Oseania”
  • Inari Sami: “Oseania já Australia”
  • Inari Sami: “Oseania”
  • Indonesian: “Oseania”
  • Ingush: “Астралии а Океании”
  • Ingush: “Астралии Океании”
  • Ingush: “Океании а Астралии”
  • Interlingua: “Oceania”
  • Interlingue: “Oceania”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐅᓯᐋᓂᐊ”
  • Irish: “an Aigéine”
  • Irish: “An Aigéine”
  • Italian: “Oceania”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Uoshania”
  • Japanese: “オセアニア”
  • Japanese: “オセアニア州”
  • Japanese: “大洋州”
  • Javanese: “Oséania”
  • Jèrriais: “Ochéannie”
  • Jju: “Osheniya”
  • Kabardian: “Океаниэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Oseyanii tɛtʋ wandamm”
  • Kabyle: “Tagarawt”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Oceania”
  • Kalaallisut: “Oceania”
  • Kannada: “ಒಷ್ಯಾನಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಓಷಿಯಾನಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Okeaniya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Австралия эм Океания”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Океания эм Австралия”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Океания”
  • Kazakh: “Аустралия және Океания”
  • Khmer: “អូសេអានី”
  • Kinaray-A: “Oseaniya”
  • Kinaray-A: “Osiyaniya”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Oseyaniya”
  • Kirghiz: “Океания”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Океания”
  • Korean: “오세아니아”
  • Korean: “오세안주”
  • Kotava: “Oceania”
  • Kurdish: “Okyanûsya”
  • Ladin: “Ozeania”
  • Ladino: “Oseania”
  • Ladino: “אוסיאניה”
  • Lao: “ໂອເຊອານີ”
  • Latin: “Oceania et Australia”
  • Latin: “Oceania”
  • Latvian: “Austrālija un Okeānija”
  • Latvian: “Okeānija un Austrālija”
  • Lezghian: “Океания”
  • Ligurian: “Oçeania”
  • Ligurian: “Òceània”
  • Limburgan: “Oceanië”
  • Lingala: “Oseanía”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Oseania”
  • Literary Chinese: “大洋洲”
  • Lithuanian: “Okeanija”
  • Livvi: “Okeanii”
  • Lojban: “poltu’a”
  • Lombard: “Oceania”
  • Low German: “Australazië”
  • Low German: “Australien un Ozeanien”
  • Low German: “Oceanië”
  • Low German: “Ozeanien”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Awstralija a Oceanija”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Oceanija”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ozeanien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Oceania”
  • Macedonian: “Океанија”
  • Magahi: “ओसनिया”
  • Maithili: “ओसिनिया”
  • Malagasy: “Ôseania”
  • Malay: “Oceania”
  • Malay: “Oseania”
  • Malayalam: “ഓഷ്യാനിയ”
  • Maltese: “Oċeanja”
  • Manx: “Yn Aarkeylann”
  • Manx: “Yn Faarkeylann”
  • Maori: “Ao-o-Kiwa”
  • Marathi: “ओशनिया”
  • Mazanderani: “اوقیانوسیه قاره”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dâi-iòng-ciŭ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tāi-iûⁿ-chiu”
  • Minangkabau: “Oseania”
  • Mingrelian: “ოკიანეთი”
  • Mirandese: “Ouceanie”
  • Mongolian: “Австрали ба далайн орнууд”
  • Mongolian: “Австрали ба Далайн орнууд”
  • Mongolian: “Далайн орнууд ба Австрали”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أوقيانوسيا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ؤقيانوسيا”
  • N'Ko: “ߏߛߌߦߊߣߌ߫ ߣߌ߫ ߏߛߑߕߙߊߟߌ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߏߛߑߕߙߊߟߌ߫ ߣߌ߫ ߏߛߌߦߊߣߌ߫”
  • Nauru: “Otsianiya”
  • Neapolitan: “Oceania”
  • Neapolitan: “Oceanie”
  • Nepali: “ओसिनिया”
  • Newari: “ओसियानिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Oseaanien”
  • Northern Sami: “Austrália ja Oseania”
  • Northern Sami: “Oseania ja Australia”
  • Northern Sami: “Oseania”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oseania”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oseania”
  • Norwegian: “Oseania”
  • Novial: “Oseania”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oceania”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܘܩܝܢܘܣܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gārsecglond”
  • Ossetian: “Австрали æмæ Океани”
  • Ossetian: “Океани”
  • Pa'o Karen: “အိုဆျန်းနီးယား”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਸ਼ੇਨੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Oseania”
  • Pedi: “Oceania”
  • Persian: “اقیانوسیه”
  • Picard: “Ochéanie”
  • Piemontese: “Osseania”
  • Polish: “Australia i Oceania”
  • Polish: “Oceania i Australia”
  • Pontic: “Ωκεανίαν”
  • Portuguese: “Oceania”
  • Portuguese: “Oceânia”
  • Pushto: “اقيانوسيه”
  • Pushto: “اوقيانوسيه”
  • Quechua: “Mamaquchaku”
  • Quechua: “Usiyaña”
  • Romanian: “Australia și Oceania”
  • Romanian: “Australia și Oceaniaa”
  • Romanian: “Oceania și Australia”
  • Romanian: “Oceania”
  • Romansh: “Oceania”
  • Russia Buriat: “Океани”
  • Russian: “Австралия и Океания”
  • Russian: “Океания и Австралия”
  • Russian: “Океания”
  • Rusyn: “Океанія”
  • Samoan: “Oseania”
  • Samogitian: “Okeanėjė”
  • Sanskrit: “ओशीनिया”
  • Sardinian: “Otzeània”
  • Sardinian: “Otzèania”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Ozeanien”
  • Scots: “Oceanie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Roinn a’ Chuain Shèimh”
  • Serbian: “Аустралија и Океанија”
  • Serbian: “Океанија и Аустралија”
  • Serbian: “Океанија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Okeanija”
  • Shan: “ဢူဝ်းသီးၼီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Oceania”
  • Sicilian: “Oceania”
  • Silesian: “Australijŏ i Ôceanijŏ”
  • Silesian: “Ôceanijŏ i Australijŏ”
  • Sindhi: “اوشينيا”
  • Sinhala: “ඕෂනියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Australia da Oseania”
  • Skolt Sami: “Oseania da Australia”
  • Slovak: “Austrália a Oceánia”
  • Slovak: “Oceánia”
  • Slovenian: “Avstralija in Oceanija”
  • Slovenian: “Oceanija in Avstralija”
  • Slovenian: “Oceanija”
  • Somali: “Ooshiyaaniya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوقیانوسیه”
  • Southern Sotho: “Oceania”
  • Spanish: “Australia y Oceania”
  • Spanish: “Australia y Oceanía”
  • Spanish: “Oceania y Australia”
  • Spanish: “Oceanía y Australia”
  • Spanish: “Oceanía”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Oseyaniya”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵓⵇⵢⴰⵏⵓⵙⵢⴰ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⵓⵚⵢⴰⵏⵉⵜ”
  • Sundanese: “Oséania”
  • Swahili: “Australia na Pasifiki”
  • Swahili: “Pasifiki na Australia”
  • Swedish: “Australien och Oceanien”
  • Swedish: “Oceanien”
  • Swiss German: “Australien und Ozeanien”
  • Swiss German: “Ozeanien und Australien”
  • Swiss German: “Ozeanien”
  • Tachelhit: “Uqyanusya”
  • Tagalog: “Oseaniya”
  • Tahitian: “Oteania”
  • Tajik: “Уқёнусия”
  • Talysh: “Avstraliyə de Okeaniyə”
  • Talysh: “Okeanijə”
  • Tamil: “ஓசியானியா”
  • Tatar: “Avstraliä häm Okeanlıq”
  • Tatar: “Avstraliä wä Okeanlıq”
  • Tatar: “Okeanlıq häm Avstraliä”
  • Tatar: “Okeanlıq wä Avstraliä”
  • Tatar: “Австралия вә Океанлык”
  • Tatar: “Австралия һәм Океанлык”
  • Tatar: “Океанлык вә Австралия”
  • Tatar: “Океанлык һәм Австралия”
  • Telugu: “ఓషియానియా”
  • Tetum: “Oseánia”
  • Thai: “โอเชียเนีย”
  • Tibetan: “རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེན་པོའི་གླིང་ཆེན།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Osenia”
  • Tsonga: “Oxiyeniya”
  • Tulu: “ಒಷ್ಯಾನಿಯ”
  • Turkish: “Avustralya ve Okyanusya”
  • Turkish: “Okyanusya ve Avustralya”
  • Turkish: “Okyanusya”
  • Turkmen: “Awstraliýa we Okeaniýa”
  • Turkmen: “Okeaniýa we Awstraliýa”
  • Tyap: “Osheniya”
  • Udmurt: “Океания”
  • Uighur: “ئوكيانىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Австралія і Океанія”
  • Ukrainian: “Австралія й Океанія”
  • Ukrainian: “Океанія i Австралія”
  • Ukrainian: “Океанія й Австралія”
  • Ukrainian: “Океанія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Oceanija”
  • Urdu: “آسٹریلیا اور اوقیانوسیہ”
  • Urdu: “اوقیانوسیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Okeaniya”
  • Venetian: “Oseània”
  • Veps: “Avstralii da Okeanii”
  • Veps: “Avstralii da Valdmerimad”
  • Veps: “Avstralii i Okeanii”
  • Veps: “Avstralii i Valdmerimad”
  • Veps: “Okeanii”
  • Veps: “Valdmerimad”
  • Vietnamese: “châu Đại Dương”
  • Vietnamese: “Châu Đại Dương”
  • Vlaams: “Oceanië”
  • Volapük: “Seanop”
  • Võro: “Austraalia ja Okõaania”
  • Võro: “Okõaania ja Austraalia”
  • Walloon: “Oceyaneye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Oceania”
  • Welsh: “Oceania”
  • Western Armenian: “Ովկիանիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Oseaanje”
  • Western Mari: “Океани”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوشیانا”
  • Wolof: “Oseyaani”
  • Wu Chinese: “大洋洲”
  • Xhosa: “Oceania”
  • Yakut: “Океания”
  • Yiddish: “אקעאניע”
  • Yoruba: “Oṣéáníà”
  • Yue Chinese: “大洋洲”
  • Zeeuws: “Oceanië”
  • Zhuang: “Dayangzcouh”
  • Zulu: “I-Osheaniya”
  • “ma Osejanija”
  • “ma Osijanija”
  • “Oseaniah”

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