Ocean
Arctic Ocean
- Surface area
- 14,056,000 km²
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Named after
- north
- Measurement held by Wikidata (CC0), converted to the atlas unit. Where Wikidata carries several values that differ by more than 2%, the atlas shows none rather than picking one.
- Coastal countries
- 4 countries
- Sea limits follow Natural Earth's cartographic outlines. A coast is counted where a land border runs within about 2 km of the outline for at least 10 km. Neighboring seas drawn separately (for example the Aegean within the Mediterranean) are not included.
- Coastal countries incl. neighboring seas
- 6 countries
- Countries on this ocean’s own coast, plus countries on the seas (not other oceans) that share at least 100 km of boundary with it. The list below names the sea each one is reached through.
- Wikidata
- Q788
Among the world's oceans
Each line is every one of the oceans in this atlas that carries the measurement, ordered smallest to largest. The line down the middle is the median; the mark on each line is this one. Deserts are not ranked against lakes — the comparison is always within the same kind.
- Surface area14,056,000 km²4th of 4 · median 63,393,500 km²
Connections
Neighboring seas
Coastal via neighboring seas