Do Australia and Oceania mean the same place?

Australia is a country located in Oceania, and its full name is the Commonwealth of Australia. But Oceania cannot be understood as the Commonwealth of Australia. Oceania has 14 countries.

Commonwealth of Australia, referred to as "Australia". Its territory covers an area of 7,692,024 square kilometers and is 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 meaning "the continent of the south", comes from Latin? Terraaustralis has changed. 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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Oceania, with a total land area of about 8.97 million square kilometers, accounting for about 6% of the world's total land area, 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.

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 14 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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Baidu Encyclopedia-Oceania