Oceania

See also: Oceânia, Óceánia, and Oceanía

Contents

EnglishEdit

Regions within Oceania.

EtymologyEdit

From French Océanie, coined circa 1812 by geographer Conrad Malte-Brun, from the Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός (Ōkeanós, “Oceanus”)

PronunciationEdit

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊ.ʃiˈɑː.nɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊ.ʃiˈæn.i.ə/

• Audio (US)

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Proper nounEdit

Oceania

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

Usage notesEdit

Despite the fact that Oceania is technically not 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)
• Easter Island (Chile)
• French Polynesia (France)
• Bonin Islands (Japan)

• Guam (United States)
• Wallis and Futuna (France)
• Northern Mariana Islands (United States)
• New Caledonia (France)

Related termsEdit

• Oceanic
• Oceanian
• Oceanianist
• ocean

TranslationsEdit

geographical region

• Afrikaans: Oseanië
• Albanian: Oqeani
• Amharic: ኦሺያኒያ (ʾošiyaniya)
• Arabic: أُوقِيَانُوسِيَا‎‎ f (ʾuqiyānusiyā)
• Armenian: Օվկիանիա (Ōvkiania)
• Assamese: ওচেনিয়া (üsenia)
• Azerbaijani: Okeaniya
• Basque: Ozeania (eu)
• Belarusian: Акія́нія f (Akijánija)
• Bengali: ওশেনিয়া (bn) (ośeniya)
• 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
• Fiji Hindi: Oceania
• Finnish: Oseania (fi)
• French: Océanie (fr) f
• Galician: Oceanía (gl) f
• Georgian: ოკეანეთი (oḳeaneti)
• German: Ozeanien (de) n
• Greek: Ωκεανία (el) f (Okeanía)
• Hebrew: אוקיאניה‎‎ f (okiánia)
• Hindi: ओशिआनिया (hi) m (ośiāniyā)
• Hungarian: Óceánia (hu)
• Irish: an Aigéine f
• Italian: Oceania (it) f
• Japanese: オセアニア (ja) (Oseania), 大洋州 (たいようしゅう, Taiyōshū)
• Kazakh: Океания (Okeanïya)
• Khmer: អូសេអានី (’ose’ani)
• Korean: 오세아니아 (Oseania)
• Kyrgyz: Океания (Okeaniya)

• Lao: ໂອເຊອານີ (lo) (’ō sē ’ā nī)
• Latvian: Okeānija f
• Lithuanian: Okeanija (lt) f
• Macedonian: Океанија f (Okeanija)
• Malay: Oseania
• Maltese: L-Oċeanja f
• Norman: Ochéannie f
• Northern Sami: Oseania
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Oseania (no)

• Occitan: Oceania (oc) f
• Persian: اقیانوسیه‎‎ (fa) (oqyânusiye)
• Polish: Oceania (pl) f
• Portuguese: Oceania (pt) f
• Romanian: Oceania f
• Russian: Океа́ния (ru) f (Okeánija)
• Scots: Oceanie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Океанија f, Оцеанија f (Croatia)

  Roman: Okeanija f, Oceanija (sh) f (Croatia)

• Slovak: Oceánia f
• Slovene: Oceanija f
• Spanish: Oceanía (es) f
• Swedish: Oceanien (sv)
• Tagalog: Karagatanan
• Tajik: Уқёнусия (tg) (Uqyonusiya)
• Tamil: ஓசியானியா (ōciyāṉiyā)
• Telugu: ఓషియానియా (te) (ōṣiyāniyā)
• Tetum: Oseánia
• Thai: โอเชียเนีย (oo-chiia-niia)
• Turkish: Okyanusya (tr)
• Turkmen: Okeaniýa
• Ukrainian: Океа́нія f (Okeánija)
• Uzbek: Okeaniya (uz)
• Vietnamese: Châu Đại Dương
• Võro: Okõaania
• Wolof: Oseyaani

See alsoEdit

• Appendix:Place names in Oceania

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CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

Proper nounEdit

Oceania f

1. Oceania

See alsoEdit

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

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French Océanie.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /o.t͡ʃeˈa.nja/, [ot͡ʃeˈäːn̺jä]
• Stress: Oceània
• Hyphenation: O‧ce‧a‧nia

Proper nounEdit

Oceania f

1. Oceania

Derived termsEdit

• oceaniano

Related termsEdit

• oceano

See alsoEdit

• (continents) continente; Africa, America meridionale, America settentrionale, Antartide, Asia, Europa, Oceania

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LatinEdit

Proper nounEdit

Ōceania f (genitive Ōceaniae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Oceania

InflectionEdit

First declension, with locative.

Case	Singular
nominative	Ōceania
genitive	Ōceaniae
dative	Ōceaniae
accusative	Ōceaniam
ablative	Ōceaniā
vocative	Ōceania
locative	Ōceaniae

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PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.t͡sɛˈaɲ.ja/

• Audio

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Proper nounEdit

Oceania f

1. Oceania

DeclensionEdit

declension of Oceania

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

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PortugueseEdit

Proper nounEdit

Oceania f

1. Alternative form of Oceânia

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RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [o.tʃe̯a.ni.a]

Proper nounEdit

Oceania f

1. Oceania

DeclensionEdit

gender f	uncountable
Nom/Acc	Oceania
Gen/Dat	Oceaniei