Continent
Oceania
- Countries
- 24 countries
- Area of its countries
- ≈ 8,504,000 km²
- Sum of the geodesic areas of the countries Terratlasia files under this continent (Natural Earth boundaries). Every country is filed under one continent, so this is not the physical area of the continent: Russia counts entirely toward Europe, Türkiye toward Asia.
- Population of its countries
- 42.4M
- Sum of Natural Earth population estimates for the countries filed under this continent (2011–2019).
Connections
UN subregions
- Polynesia9
- Micronesia7
- Melanesia5
- Australia and New Zealand3
Natural geography 4
Features spanning several countries of this continent
Straits 1
Countries 24
Area computed from boundaries · population: Natural Earth estimates
Most populous countries
- Australia25.4M
- Papua New Guinea8.8M
- New Zealand4.9M
- Fiji890K
- Solomon Islands669.8K
- Vanuatu299.9K
- New Caledonia287.8K
- French Polynesia279.3K
- Samoa197.1K
- Guam167.3K
| Capital | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 American Samoa | Polynesia | 120 | 55,312 | — |
 Australia | Australia and New Zealand | 7,691,284 | 25,364,307 | Canberra |
 Cook Islands | Polynesia | 60 | 17,459 | — |
 Fiji | Melanesia | 18,346 | 889,953 | Suva |
 French Polynesia | Polynesia | 2,605 | 279,287 | — |
 Guam | Micronesia | 480 | 167,294 | — |
 Kiribati | Micronesia | 933 | 117,606 | Tarawa |
 Marshall Islands | Micronesia | 236 | 58,791 | Majuro |
 Micronesia | Micronesia | 522 | 113,815 | Palikir |
 Nauru | Micronesia | 28 | 12,581 | — |
 New Caledonia | Melanesia | 18,616 | 287,800 | — |
 New Zealand | Australia and New Zealand | 267,249 | 4,917,000 | Wellington |
 Niue | Polynesia | 196 | 1,620 | — |
 Norfolk Island | Australia and New Zealand | 41 | 2,169 | — |
 Northern Mariana Islands | Micronesia | 392 | 57,216 | — |
 Palau | Micronesia | 339 | 18,008 | Melekeok |
 Papua New Guinea | Melanesia | 462,299 | 8,776,109 | Port Moresby |
 Pitcairn Islands | Polynesia | 39 | 54 | — |
 Samoa | Polynesia | 2,692 | 197,097 | Apia |
 Solomon Islands | Melanesia | 25,633 | 669,823 | Honiara |
 Tonga | Polynesia | 430 | 104,494 | Nuku'alofa |
 Tuvalu | Polynesia | 10 | 11,646 | Funafuti |
 Vanuatu | Melanesia | 11,254 | 299,882 | Port Vila |
 Wallis and Futuna | Polynesia | 131 | 11,558 | — |