Is Australia Oceania?

Australia is not Oceania. Australia refers to Australia, which belongs to Oceania and is called the Commonwealth of Australia. Oceania includes Australia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia and other islands, and Oceania has 14 countries.

Commonwealth of Australia (English: The Commonwealth of Australia), referred to as "Australia". Its territorial area is 7692024 square kilometers. It is located between the South Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, surrounded by the sea. It is the only country in the world whose territory covers the whole continent, so it is also called "Australia". Australia has many unique animals, plants and natural landscapes, and is a multicultural immigrant country.

The word "Australia" originally means "Southern Continent" and comes from the Latin terraaustralis. When Europeans discovered this continent in the17th century, they mistakenly thought it was a land that went straight to the South Pole, so they named it "Australia".

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The total land area of Oceania is about 8.97 million square kilometers, accounting for about 6% of the total land area of the world. It is the smallest continent in the world. Apart from Antarctica, it is the least populated continent in the world. Located in the vast sea area north and south of the equator in the south-central Pacific Ocean, between Asia and Antarctica, adjacent to the Indian Ocean in the west, the Pacific Ocean in the east, and far away from North and South America.

The English name of Oceania is Oceania, which means "land surrounded by the ocean", in which "ocean" means "sea" and the suffix -ia means land. The name appeared in 18 12, which was coined by Danish geographer Marte Brun. ?

Oceania spans the northern and southern hemispheres, from 47 south latitude to 30 north latitude, across the eastern and western hemispheres, from east longitude110 to west longitude160, with the distance from east to west1000 million kilometers and the distance from north to south more than 8,000 kilometers. It consists of a continent and many islands scattered in the vast sea, including Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea (Irian Island) and Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.

Oceania has 16 independent countries, and the remaining 10 areas are still under the jurisdiction of the United States, Britain, France and other countries. The level of economic development varies greatly among countries. Australia and New Zealand have developed economies, while other island countries are mostly agricultural countries with relatively backward economies. Industry is also mainly concentrated in Australia, followed by New Zealand. It is geographically divided into six regions: Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.

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