Population 36,659,000 (2010, 6th) Demonym Oceanian | Population density 4.19/km (10.9/sq mi) | |
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Area 8,525,989 km (3,291,903 sq mi) Countries 14 (list of countries)
Australia
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Nauru
New Zealand
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Associated (2) (list)
Cook Islands
Niue Dependencies External (21) (list)
American Samoa
Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Baker Island
Clipperton Island
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Coral Sea Islands
French Polynesia
Guam
Howland Island
Jarvis Island
Johnston Atoll
Kingman Reef
Midway Atoll
New Caledonia
Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands
Pitcairn Islands
Tokelau
Wake Island
Wallis and Futuna
Internal (4) (list)
Easter Island
Hawaii, United States
Juan Fernández Islands
Palmyra Atoll | ||
Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania vary, with it being defined in various ways, often geopolitically or geographically. In the geopolitical conception used by the United Nations, International Olympic Committee, and many atlases, the Oceanic region includes Australia and the nations of the Pacific from Papua New Guinea east, but not the Malay Archipelago or Indonesian New Guinea. The term is sometimes used more specifically to denote Australasia as a geographic continent, or biogeographically as a synonym for either the Australasian ecozone (Wallacea and Australasia) or the Pacific ecozone (Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia apart either from New Zealand or from mainland New Guinea).
Although Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands belong to the Commonwealth of Australia and are inhabited, they are nearer Indonesia than the Australian mainland, and are commonly associated with Asia instead of Oceania.
Demographics by territory
The demographic table below shows all inhabited states and territories of Oceania. The information in this chart comes from the CIA World Factbook or the United States Department of State, unless noted otherwise or not available (NA); where sources differ, references are included.