Oceania

Etymology
From, coined circa 1812 by geographer , from the.

Proper noun

 * 1) A geographical region or continent composed of many islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia) plus Australasia. It is located between Asia, Antarctica and the Americas.

Usage notes
Despite the fact that Oceania is not widely classified a continent, some people use the term when referring to the continents of the world in place of the Australian continent, mostly because several Oceanian countries are located in the Pacific Ocean and would otherwise be unable to be classified within a continent unless grouped in with Australia.

Oceania contains the following countries:


 * Australia
 * East Timor (sometimes included)
 * Federated States of Micronesia
 * Fiji
 * Indonesia (part)
 * Kiribati
 * Marshall Islands
 * Nauru
 * New Zealand
 * Palau
 * Papua New Guinea
 * Samoa
 * Solomon Islands
 * Tonga
 * Tuvalu
 * Vanuatu

Territories in Oceania belonging to other countries include:


 * Hawaii (United States)
 * American Samoa (United States)
 * Easter Island (Chile)
 * French Polynesia (France)
 * Bonin Islands (Japan)
 * Guam (United States)
 * Wallis and Futuna (France)
 * Northern Mariana Islands (United States)
 * New Caledonia (France)

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Oseanië
 * Albanian: Oqeani
 * Amharic: ኦሺያኒያ
 * Arabic: أُوقِيَانُوسِيَا
 * Hijazi Arabic: أوقْيانوسْيا
 * Armenian: Օվկիանիա
 * Assamese: ওচেনিয়া
 * Azerbaijani: Okeaniya
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: Акія́нія
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: Океа́ния
 * Burmese: အိုရှန်းနီးယား
 * Carpathian Rusyn: Океа́нія
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Oceanio
 * Estonian: Okeaania
 * Faroese: Osiania
 * Fiji Hindi: Oceania
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: Oceanie
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ოკეანეთი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Hebrew: אוקיאניה
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Igbo:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: Aigéine
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: អូសេអានី
 * Korean:, 대양주(大洋洲), ^오세안주(오세안洲)
 * Kyrgyz: Океания
 * Ladin:
 * Ladino: Oseania
 * Lao:
 * Latin: Oceania
 * Latvian: Okeānija
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: Океанија
 * Malay: Oseania
 * Maltese: L-Oċeanja
 * Marathi: ओशनिया
 * Norman: Ochéannie
 * Northern Sami: Oseania
 * Northwestern Ojibwa: Gichi-minis-gichi-aki
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: Oseania
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ଓସେନିଆ
 * Pashto: اوقيانوسيه
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: Oceania
 * Russian:
 * Scots: Oceanie
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Океанија, Оцеанија
 * Roman: Okeanija,
 * Silesian: Uoceańijo
 * Sinhalese: ඕසියානාව
 * Slovak: Oceánia
 * Slovene: Oceanija
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: Oceanija
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Karagatanan
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: ஓசியானியா
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: Oseánia
 * Thai: โอเชียเนีย
 * Tibetan: རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེན་པོའི་གླིང་ཆེན
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Okeaniýa
 * Ukrainian: Океа́нія
 * Uyghur: ئوكيانىيە
 * Uzbek:
 * Veps: Valdmerimad
 * Vietnamese: Châu Đại Dương (洲大洋), Châu Úc (洲澳), Úc Châu (澳洲)
 * Võro: Okõaania
 * Votic:
 * Wolof: Oseyaani
 * Yiddish: אָקעאַניע

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Usage notes
The form Oceania is almost the only form used in Brazil, while Oceânia is more common in Portugal.

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