Oceania

Oceania

Geopolitical Oceania
Area	8,525,989 km2 (3,291,903 sq mi)
Population	36,659,000 (2010, 6th)
Pop. density	4.19/km2 (10.9/sq mi)
Demonym	Oceanian
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
Languages	29 (official and unofficial) Bislama Carolinian Chamorro Cook Islands Maori Cocos Malay (unofficial) English Fijian French Futunan (unofficial) Gilbertese Hawaiian Hindi Hiri Motu Indonesian Māori Marshallese Nauruan Niuean Palauan Pitkern (unofficial) Rapa Nui (unofficial) Rotuman (unofficial) Samoan Spanish Tahitian (unofficial) Tokelauan Tongan Tok Pisin Tuvaluan Wallisian (unofficial)
Time zones	UTC+14 (Kiribati) to UTC-11 (American Samoa and Niue) (West to East)
Largest cities	List of cities in Oceania Sydney, Australia Melbourne, Australia Brisbane, Australia Perth, Australia Auckland, New Zealand Adelaide, Australia Wellington, New Zealand Honolulu, Hawaii, United States Canberra, Australia Christchurch, New Zealand Jayapura, Indonesia Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Nouméa, New Caledonia Gold Coast, Australia

Oceania (UK /ˌoʊʃiˈɑːniə, ˌoʊsi-/ or US /ˌoʊʃiːˈæniə/), also known as Oceanica, is a region centred on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Opinions of what constitutes Oceania range from its three subregions of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia to, more broadly, the entire insular region between Southeast Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago.

The term is often used more specifically to denote a continent comprising Australia and proximate islands or biogeographically as a synonym for either the Australasian ecozone (Wallacea and Australasia) or the Pacific ecozone (Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia, excluding both New Zealand and mainland New Guinea).