Oceania

Oceania is a large geographical region in the Pacific Ocean. It is made up of 14 countries in the surrounding area. It is often listed with the continents of the world.

The term "Oceania" does not have one single agreed definition. The widest definition of Oceania includes the entire region between continental Asia, Australasia, and the Americas as well as islands in the Pacific Rim such as the Japanese archipelago, Taiwan, and the Aleutian Islands.

On the other hand, the Oceania ecozone includes all of Micronesia, Fiji (Melanesia) and all of Polynesia, except New Zealand. Sometimes, people use the term 'Oceania' to include only the Polynesian and Melanesian islands in the Pacific Ocean, as separate from Australasia. When Oceania is treated separately from Australia, the region of Oceania is referred to as "Australia and Oceania".

In the United Nations' geographic regions, Oceania includes Australia and the nations of the Pacific from Papua New Guinea east, but not the Malay Archipelago or Indonesian New Guinea.

A smaller usage of Oceania as a continent includes only Australia (including Tasmania), New Guinea, and the islands between them. This part of the world is usually called Australasia instead. For these reasons, it is not correct to say that Australasia is part of Oceania, because what is meant by 'Oceania' is not clear. Australasia has an exact definition in biogeography and geology; Australasia includes New Zealand, Australia (including Tasmania), and Melanesia, New Guinea, and the islands just north and east of Australia. All these are south-east of the Bali–Lombok line, also known as the Wallace Line.

Countries in Oceania
Some listed here are part of a larger State.















 Languages 

 Bislama in Vanuatu
 Chamorro in Guam and Northern Mariana Islands
 Chinese in Kiribati
 English in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, etc.
 Fijian in Fiji
 French in Vanuatu and France's overseas territories
 Gilbertese in Kiribati
 Hawaiian in Hawaii
 Hindi in Fiji
 Hiri Motu in Papua New Guinea
 Indonesian in South Papua, West Papua, Aru Islands, etc
 Japanese in Bonin Islands
 Malay in Chrismas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands
 Maori in Cook Islands
 Marshallese in Marshall Islands
 Nauruan in Nauru
 Niuean in Niue
 Norfuk in Norfolk Island
 Palauan in Palau
 Pidgin in Hawaii
 Pitkern in Pitcairn Islands
 Rapanui in Easter Island
 Rarotongan in Cook Islands
 Samoan in Samoa and American Samoa
 Spanish in Guam, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Easter Island, Galapagos Islands and the Juan Fernandez Islands
 Tok Pisin in Papua New Guinea
 Tokelauan in Tokelau
 Tongan in Tonga
 Tuvaluan in Tuvalu

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