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Fun fact 4 about Indian Ocean

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Eighty percent of the Indian Ocean is open ocean and includes nine large marine ecosystems.

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Area
70.56M km²
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3rd largest ocean in the world

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km2 (27,240,000 sq mi) or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east.

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