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/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: O‧ce‧a‧nia

Proper noun

Oceania

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

Usage notes

Despite the fact that Oceania is not widely classified a continent, 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

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:)
• 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
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Oseania (no)

  Nynorsk: Oseania

• Occitan: Oceania (oc) f
• Odia: ଓସେନିଆ (osenia)
• 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)
• Rusyn: Океа́нія 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

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o.se.əˈni.ə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u.se.əˈni.ə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o.se.aˈni.a/

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Proper noun

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a geographical region or continent in the Pacific Ocean)

Related terms

• oceànic

See also

• (continents) continent; Àfrica,‎ Amèrica,‎ Amèrica del Nord/‎Nord-amèrica,‎ Amèrica del Sud/‎Sud-amèrica,‎ Antàrtida,‎ Àsia,‎ Europa,‎ Oceania ^{(Category: ca:Continents) [edit]}

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 geographical region or continent in the Pacific Ocean)

Derived terms

• oceaniano

Related terms

• oceano

See also

• (continents) continente; Africa, America (America meridionale, America settentrionale), Antartide, Asia, Europa, Oceania ^{(Category: it:Continents)}

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /oː.keˈa.ni.a/, [oːkeˈäniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.t͡ʃeˈa.ni.a/, [ot͡ʃeˈäːniä]

Proper noun

Ōceania f sg (genitive Ōceaniae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Oceania (a geographical region or continent in the Pacific Ocean)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Ōceania
Genitive	Ōceaniae
Dative	Ōceaniae
Accusative	Ōceaniam
Ablative	Ōceaniā
Vocative	Ōceania

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.t͡sɛˈaɲ.ja/

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

Proper noun

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a geographical region or continent in the Pacific Ocean)

Declension

Declension of Oceania

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

Further reading

• Oceania in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Oceânia

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/

• Hyphenation: O‧ce‧a‧ni‧a

Proper noun

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a geographical region or continent in the Pacific Ocean)

Usage notes

The form Oceania is almost the only form used in Brazil, while Oceânia is more common in Portugal.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [o.tʃe̯a.ni.a]

Proper noun

Oceania f

1. Oceania (a geographical region or continent in the Pacific Ocean)

Declension

gender f	uncountable
Nom/Acc	Oceania
Gen/Dat	Oceaniei