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11 de abr. de 2024 · Pacific Islands, geographic region of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises three ethnogeographic groupings—Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia—but conventionally excludes Australia, the Indonesian, Philippine, and Japanese archipelagoes, and the Ryukyu, Bonin, Volcano, and Kuril island arcs beyond Japan.
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Hace 2 días · Islands in the Pacific Ocean are of four basic types: continental islands, high islands, coral reefs and uplifted coral platforms. Continental islands lie outside the andesite line and include New Guinea, the islands of New Zealand, and the Philippines.
- 4,280 m (14,040 ft)
- 165,250,000 km² (63,800,000 sq mi)
- 10,911 m (35,797 ft)
- 710,000,000 km³ (170,000,000 cu mi)
Hace 3 días · Polynesia [a] ( UK: / ˌpɒlɪˈniːziə / POL-in-EE-zee-ə, US: /- ˈniːʒə / -EE-zhə) is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The indigenous people who inhabit the islands of Polynesia are called Polynesians.
17 de abr. de 2024 · Oceania, collective name for the islands scattered throughout most of the Pacific Ocean. The term, in its widest sense, embraces the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas . A more common definition excludes the Ryukyu, Kuril, and Aleutian islands and the Japan archipelago.
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Hace 3 días · Tonga ( / ˈtɒŋə / TONG-ə, / ˈtɒŋɡə / TONG-gə; [a] Tongan: [ˈtoŋa] ), officially the Kingdom of Tonga ( Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga ), is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The country has 171 islands – of which 45 are inhabited. [1]
- Unitary parliamentary semi-constitutional monarchy
5 de abr. de 2024 · Palau, country in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of some 340 coral and volcanic islands perched on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge. The Palau (also spelled Belau or Pelew) archipelago lies in the southwest corner of Micronesia, with Guam 830 miles (1,330 km) to the northeast, New Guinea 400 miles (650 km) to the south, and the ...
9 de abr. de 2024 · Last Updated: Apr 09, 2024. Ten Pacific Island countries which are members of the World Bank have a population of about 3.4 million people, scattered across an area equivalent to 15 percent of the globe’s surface, with a development trajectory that will be shaped by their economic geography.
