Oceania

See also: Oceânia, Óceánia, and Oceanía

English

Regions within Oceania.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊ.ʃiˈɑː.nɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊ.ʃiˈæn.i.ə/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌɐʉ.ʃiːˈaː.ni.ə/, /-njə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌəʉ.ʃiˈaː.ni.ə/, /-njə/
• (Ireland, also) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊʃiˈænə/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: O‧ce‧a‧nia

Proper noun

Oceania

2. A continent or continental region composed of many islands (Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia) plus Australasia, located between Asia, Antarctica and the Americas.

Usage notes

Despite the fact that Oceania is not widely classified a continent in anglophone countries, 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)

Meronyms

• Australasia
• Melanesia
• Micronesia
• Polynesia

Related terms

• Oceanic
• Oceanian
• Oceanianist
• ocean

Descendants

• → Japanese: オセアニア (Oseania)

Translations

geographical region

• Afrikaans: Oseanië
• Albanian: Oqeani
• Amharic: ኦሺያኒያ (ʾošiyaniya)
• Arabic: أُوقِيَانُوسِيَا f (ʔuqiyānusiyā)

  Hijazi Arabic: أوقْيانوسْيا f (ʔōgyānūsya)

• Armenian: Օվկիանիա (Ōvkiania)
• Assamese: ওচেনিয়া (üsenia)
• Azerbaijani: Okeaniya
• Basque: Ozeania (eu)
• Belarusian: Акія́нія f (Akijánija)
• Bengali: ওশেনিয়া (bn) (ōśeniẏa)
• Bulgarian: Океа́ния f (Okeánija)
• Burmese: အိုရှန်းနီးယား (uihran:ni:ya:)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Океа́нія f (Okeánija)
• Catalan: Oceania (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大洋洲 (zh) (Dàyángzhōu), 海洋洲 (zh) (Hǎiyángzhōu)

• Czech: Oceánie (cs) f
• Danish: Oceanien (da)
• Dutch: Oceanië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Oceanio
• Estonian: Okeaania
• Faroese: Osiania
• Fiji Hindi: Oceania
• Finnish: Oseania (fi)
• French: Océanie (fr) f
• Friulian: Oceanie f
• Galician: Oceanía (gl) f
• Georgian: ოკეანეთი (oḳeaneti)
• German: Ozeanien (de) n
• Greek: Ωκεανία (el) f (Okeanía)

  Ancient: please add this translation if you can

• Hebrew: אוקיאניה f (okiánia)
• Hindi: ओशिआनिया (hi) m (ośiāniyā)
• Hungarian: Óceánia (hu)
• Icelandic: Eyjaálfa (is)
• Igbo: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: Oseania (id)
• Irish: an Aigéine f
• Italian: Oceania (it) f
• Japanese: オセアニア (ja) (Oseania), 大洋州 (ja) (たいようしゅう, Taiyōshū)
• Kazakh: Океания (kk) (Okeaniä)
• Khmer: អូសេអានី (ʼouseeʼaanii)
• Korean: 오세아니아 (ko) (Oseania), 대양주(大洋洲) (daeyangju), 오세안주(오세안洲) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: Океания (Okeaniya)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino: Oseania
• Lao: ໂອເຊອານີ (lo) (ʼō sē ʼā nī)
• Latin: Oceania f
• Latvian: Okeānija f
• Lithuanian: Okeanija (lt) f
• Macedonian: Океанија f (Okeanija)
• Malay: Oseania
• Maltese: L-Oċeanja f
• Marathi: ओशनिया (ośniyā)
• Norman: Ochéannie f
• Northern Sami: Oseania
• Northwestern Ojibwa: Gichi-minis-gichi-aki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Oseania (no)

  Nynorsk: Oseania

• Occitan: Oceania (oc) f
• Odia: ଓସେନିଆ (oseniā)
• Pashto: اوقيانوسيه f (oqeyānosyá)
• Persian: اقیانوسیه (fa) (oqyânusiye)
• Polish: Oceania (pl) f
• Portuguese: Oceania (pt) f, Oceânia (pt) f
• Romanian: Oceania f
• Russian: Океа́ния (ru) f (Okeánija)
• Scots: Oceanie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Океанија f, Оцеанија f (Croatia)

  Roman: Okeanija f, Oceanija (sh) f (Croatia)

• Silesian: Uoceańijo f
• Sinhalese: ඕසියානාව (ōsiyānāwa)
• Slovak: Oceánia f
• Slovene: Oceanija f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Oceanija f

• Spanish: Oceanía (es) f
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: Oceanien (sv)
• Tagalog: Karagatanan
• Tajik: Уқёнусия (tg) (Uqyonusiya)
• Tamil: ஓசியானியா (ōciyāṉiyā)
• Telugu: ఓషియానియా (te) (ōṣiyāniyā)
• Tetum: Oseánia
• Thai: โอเชียเนีย (oo-chiia-niia)
• Tibetan: རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེན་པོའི་གླིང་ཆེན (rgya mtsho chen po'i gling chen)
• Turkish: Okyanusya (tr)
• Turkmen: Okeaniýa
• Ukrainian: Океа́нія f (Okeánija)
• Uyghur: ئوكيانىيە (okyaniye)
• Uzbek: Okeaniya (uz)
• Veps: Valdmerimad
• Vietnamese: Châu Đại Dương (洲大洋), Châu Úc (洲澳), Úc Châu (澳洲)
• Võro: Okõaania
• Votic: please add this translation if you can
• Wolof: Oseyaani
• Yiddish: אָקעאַניע (okeanye)

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French Océanie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [u.se.əˈni.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [o.se.əˈni.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [o.se.aˈni.a]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia)

Related terms

• oceànic

See also

continents: continentsedit

• Àfrica
• Amèrica
  • Amèrica del Nord, Nord-amèrica
  • Amèrica del Sud, Sud-amèrica
• Antàrtida
• Àsia
• Europa
• Oceania

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Océanie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.t͡ʃeˈa.nja/
• Rhymes: -anja
• Hyphenation: O‧ce‧à‧nia

Proper noun

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia)

Derived terms

• oceaniano

Related terms

• oceano

See also

continents: continentiedit

• Africa
• America
  • America meridionale
  • America settentrionale
• Antartide
• Asia
• Europa
• Oceania

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [oː.keˈa.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [o.t͡ʃeˈäː.ni.ä]

Proper noun

Ōceania f sg (genitive Ōceaniae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Oceania (a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Ōceania
genitive	Ōceaniae
dative	Ōceaniae
accusative	Ōceaniam
ablative	Ōceaniā
vocative	Ōceania

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.t͡sɛˈaɲ.ja/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aɲja
• Syllabification: O‧ce‧an‧ia

Proper noun

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia)

Declension

Declension of Oceania

	singular
nominative	Oceania
genitive	Oceanii
dative	Oceanii
accusative	Oceanię
instrumental	Oceanią
locative	Oceanii
vocative	Oceanio

See also

continents: kontynentyedit

• Afryka
• Ameryka
  • Ameryka Południowa
  • Ameryka Północna
• Antarktyda
• Azja
• Europa
• Oceania

Further reading

• Oceania in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Oceânia

Etymology

Borrowed from French Océanie.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.si.aˈni.ɐ/ [o.sɪ.aˈni.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /o.sjaˈni.ɐ/, /o.se.aˈni.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.si.aˈni.ɐ/ [o.sɪ.aˈni.ɐ], (faster pronunciation) /o.sjaˈni.ɐ/, /o.se.aˈni.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /o.se.aˈni.a/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔ.sjɐˈni.ɐ/

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: O‧ce‧a‧ni‧a

Proper noun

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia)

Usage notes

• The form Oceania is almost the only form used in Brazil, while both coexist in Portugal.

Related terms

• oceaniano
• oceânico

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French Océanie. By surface analysis, ocean +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [o.tʃe̯a.ni.a]

Proper noun

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia)

Declension

	singular
	definite
nominative-accusative	Oceania
genitive-dative	Oceaniei

Welsh

Etymology

Internationalism, see English Oceania.

Proper noun

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia)

   Synonym: Ynysoedd y De

See also

continents: cyfandiroeddedit

• Affrica
• Antarctica
• Asia
• Ewrop
• Oceania, Ynysoedd y De
• yr Amerig
  • De America
  • Gogledd America
    • Canolbarth America

• (countries of Oceania) gwledydd Oceania (Ynysoedd y De); Awstralia, Ffiji, Ciribati, Fanwatw, Micronesia, Nawrw, Niue, Palaw, Papwa Gini Newydd, Samoa, Seland Newydd, Tonga, Twfalw, Ynysoedd Cook, Ynysoedd Marshall, Ynysoedd Solomon