Oceania

See also Oceânia, Óceánia, and Oceanía

English

Wikipedia

Regions within Oceania.

Etymology

From French Océanie, coined circa 1812 by geographer Conrad Malte-Brun, from the Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanos, “Oceanus”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˌəʊ.ʃiˈɑːn.(iː.)ə/, X-SAMPA: /%@U.Si"A:n.(i:.)@/
• (US) IPA: /ˌoʊʃiˈæniə/, X-SAMPA: /%oUSi{ni@/
• Rhymes: -eɪniə

Proper noun

Oceania

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

Usage notes

Dispite the fact that Oceania is technically not a continent, some people use the term when refering to the continents of the world in place of the Australian continent, mostly because the Australian continent only contains four countries (Australia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Indonesia,) and because the other thirteen Oceanian countries are located in the Pacific Ocean and would otherwise be unable to be classified within a continent.

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) Easter Island (Chile) French Polynesia (France) Bonin Islands (Japan)

Guam (United States) Wallis and Futuna (France) Northern Mariana Islands (United States) New Caledonia (France)

Related terms

• Oceanic
• Oceanian
• ocean

Translations

a geographical region composed of many islands

Afrikaans: Oseanië (af) Arabic: أوقيانوسيا (ar) (’ukiyaanusiya) f. Armenian: Օվկիանիա (hy) (Ovkiania) Basque: Ozeania (eu) Bosnian: Okeanija (bs) f. Bulgarian: Океания (bg) f. Catalan: Oceania f. Chinese: Mandarin: 大洋洲 (cmn) (Dàyángzhōu) Croatian: Ocèānija (hr) f. Czech: Oceánie (cs) f. Danish: Oceanien (da) Dutch: Oceanië (nl) n. Esperanto: Oceanio (eo) Estonian: Okeaania (et) Fiji Hindi: Oceania Finnish: Oseania (fi) French: Océanie (fr) f. Georgian: ოკეანეთი (ka) (okeanet'i) German: Ozeanien (de) n. Greek: Ωκεανία (el) (Okeanía) f. Hebrew: אוקיאניה (he) (okiania) f. Hindi: ओशिआनिया (hi) (ośi'āniyā) m. Hungarian: Óceánia (hu) Italian: Oceania (it) f.

Japanese: オセアニア (ja) (Oseania), 大洋州 (ja) (たいようしゅう, Taiyōshū) Khmer: ពួកកោះក្នុងសមុទ្រប៉ាស៊ីភិច (km) (puək kɑh knong samot paasiipʰic) Korean: 오세아니아 (ko) (Oseania) Macedonian: Океанија (mk) (Okeánija) f. Maltese: l-Oċeanja Northern Sami: Oseania Persian: اقیانوسیه (fa) (oqyânusiye) Polish: Oceania (pl) f. Portuguese: Oceania (pt) f. Romanian: Oceania (ro) Russian: Океания (ru) (Okeánija) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Океанија f. Roman: Okeanija f. Spanish: Oceanía (es) f. Swedish: Oceanien (sv) Tamil: ஓசியானியா (ta) Telugu: ఓషియానియా (te) Tetum: Oseánia Thai: โอเชียเนีย (th) Turkish: Okyanusya (tr) Vietnamese: Châu Đại Dương (vi) Võro: Okõaania Wolof: Oseyaani (wo)

See also

• Appendix:Place names in Oceania

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Catalan

Proper noun

Oceania f. 

1. Oceania

See also

• (continents) continent; Àfrica, Antàrtida, Àsia, Oceania, Europa, Amèrica del Nord/Nord-amèrica, Amèrica del Sud/Sud-amèrica ^{(Category: ca:Continents) [edit]}

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /otʃeˈanja/, X-SAMPA: /otSe"anja/

Proper noun

Oceania f.

1. Oceania

Related terms

• oceano

See also

• (continents) continente; Africa, America meridionale, America settentrionale, Antartide, Asia, Europa, Oceania ^{(Category: it:Continents) [edit]}

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Proper noun

Oceania (genitive Oceaniae); f, first declension

1. Oceania

Inflection

nominative	Oceania
genitive	Oceaniae
dative	Oceaniae
accusative	Oceaniam
ablative	Oceaniā
vocative	Oceania
locative	Oceaniae

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɔt͡s̪ɛˈaɲja/

Proper noun

Oceania f.

1. Oceania

Declension

	Singular only
Nominative	Oceania
Genitive	Oceanii
Dative	Oceanii
Accusative	Oceanię
Instrumental	Oceanią
Locative	Oceanii
Vocative	Oceanio

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [o.tʃe̯a.ni.a]

Proper noun

Oceania f.

1. Oceania

Declension

gender f.	uncountable
Nom/Acc	Oceania
Gen/Dat	Oceaniei