Pacific Ocean
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Area
165.25M km²
Coordinates
0.0000, -160.0000
Category
oceans
Overview
Earth's largest ocean - covering more area than all land combined.
About
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It stretches from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
More about Pacific Ocean
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