Oceania

American Samoa Google Maps

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American Samoa

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for American Samoa (AS). Explore satellite imagery of Pago Pago, the capital city of American Samoa, on the Google Maps of Oceania below.

American Samoa (GPS: 14 20 S, 170 00 W) is located in Oceania, a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand. The country’s area measurements are total: 199 sq km; land: 199 sq km, water: 0 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly larger than Washington, DC. The total irrigated land is 0 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of American Samoa: Pago Pago has one of the best natural deepwater harbors in the South Pacific Ocean, sheltered by shape from rough seas and protected by peripheral mountains from high winds. Strategic location in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Australia Google Maps

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Australia

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Australia (AU). Explore satellite imagery of Canberra, the capital city of Australia, on the Google Maps of Oceania below.

Australia (GPS: 27 00 S, 133 00 E) located in Oceania, a continent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. The country’s area measurements are total: 7,741,220 sq km; land: 7,682,300 sq km, water: 58,920 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly smaller than the US contiguous 48 states. The total irrigated land is 25,500 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of Australia: World’s smallest continent but sixth-largest country. The largest country in Oceania, the largest country entirely in the Southern Hemisphere, and the largest country without land borders. The only continent without glaciers. The refreshing sea breeze known as the “Fremantle Doctor” affects Perth’s city on the west coast and is one of the world’s most consistent winds. The Great Dividing Range that runs along eastern Australia is that continent’s most extended mountain range and the third-longest land-based range in the world. The term “Great Dividing Range” refers to the fact that the mountains form a watershed crest from which all of the rivers of eastern Australia flow east, west, north, and south.

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Cook Islands Google Maps

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Cook Islands

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Cook Islands (CK). Explore satellite imagery of Avarua, the capital city of Cook Islands, on the Google Maps of Oceania below.

Cook Islands (GPS: 21 14 S, 159 46 W) located in Oceania, a group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand. The country’s area measurements are total: 236 sq km; land: 236 sq km, water: 0 sq km. This sovereign state is 1.3 times the size of Washington, DC. The total irrigated land is N/A.

One of the essential features of Cook Islands: The northern Cook Islands are seven low-lying, sparsely populated coral atolls. The Southern Cook Islands, where most of the population lives, consist of eight elevated, fertile, volcanic isles, including the largest, Rarotonga, at 67 sq km.

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Fiji Google Maps

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Fiji

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Fiji (FJ). Explore Suva’s satellite imagery, the capital city of Fiji, on the Google Maps of Oceania below.

Fiji (GPS: 18 00 S, 175 00 E) is located in Oceania, an island group in the South Pacific Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand. The country’s area measurements are total: 18,274 sq km; land: 18,274 sq km, water: 0 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly smaller than New Jersey. The total irrigated land is 40 sq km (2012).

One of the important features of Fiji: Includes 332 islands. Approximately 110 are inhabited.

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French Polynesia Google Maps

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French Polynesia

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for French Polynesia (PF). Explore satellite imagery of Papeete, the capital city of French Polynesia, on the Google Maps of Oceania below.

French Polynesia (GPS: 15 00 S, 140 00 W) located in Oceania, five archipelagoes (Archipel des Tuamotu, Iles Gambier, Iles Marquises, Iles Tubuai, Society Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean about halfway between South America and Australia. The country’s area measurements are total: 4,167 sq km; land: 3,827 sq km, water: 340 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly less than one-third the size of Connecticut. The total irrigated land is ten sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of French Polynesia: Includes five archipelagoes: four volcanic (Iles Gambier, Iles Marquises, Iles Tubuai, Society Islands) and one coral (Archipel des Tuamotu). The Tuamotu Archipelago forms the largest group of atolls globally – 78 in total, 48 inhabited. Makatea in the Tuamotu Archipelago is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean – the others are Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and Nauru.

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Guam Google Maps

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Guam

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Guam (GU). Explore satellite imagery of Hagatna, the capital city of Guam, on the Google Maps of Oceania below.

Guam (GPS: 13 28 N, 144 47 E) is located in Oceania, an island in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to the Philippines. The country’s area measurements are total: 544 sq km; land: 544 sq km, water: 0 sq km. This sovereign state is three times the size of Washington, DC. The total irrigated land is two sq km (2012).

One of Guam’s essential features: A largest and southernmost island in the Mariana Islands archipelago and the largest island in Micronesia. Strategic location in western North Pacific Ocean.

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Kiribati Google Maps

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Kiribati

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Kiribati (KI). Explore satellite imagery of Tarawa, the capital city of Kiribati, on the Google Maps of Oceania below.

Kiribati (GPS: 1 25 N, 173 00 E) is located in Oceania, a group of 33 coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, straddling the Equator; the capital Tarawa is about halfway between Hawaii and Australia. The country’s area measurements are total: 811 sq km; land: 811 sq km, water: 0 sq km. This sovereign state is four times the size of Washington, DC. The total irrigated land is 0 sq km (2012).

One of the important features of Kiribati: 21 of the 33 islands are inhabited. Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean – the others are Makatea in French Polynesia and Nauru. Kiribati is the only country in the world to fall into all four hemispheres (northern, southern, eastern, and western).

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Marshall Islands Google Maps

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Marshall Islands

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Marshall Islands (HM). Explore satellite imagery of Majuro, the capital city of Marshall Islands, on the Google Maps of Oceania below.

Marshall Islands (GPS: 9 00 N, 168 00 E) located in Oceania, two archipelagic island chains of 29 atolls, each made up of many small islets, and five single islands in the North Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia. The country’s area measurements are total: 181 sq km; land: 181 sq km, water: 0 sq km. This sovereign state is about the size of Washington, DC. The total irrigated land is 0 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of the Marshall Islands: The islands of Bikini and Enewetak are former US nuclear test sites. Kwajalein atoll, famous as a World War II battleground, surrounds the world’s largest lagoon and is used as a US missile test range. Ebeye’s island city is the second-largest settlement in the Marshall Islands, after the capital of Majuro, and one of the most densely populated locations in the Pacific.

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Micronesia Google Maps

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Micronesia

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Micronesia (FM). Explore satellite imagery of Palikir, the capital city of Micronesia, on the Google Maps of Oceania below.

Micronesia (GPS: 6 55 N, 158 15 E) is located in Oceania, an island group in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia. The country’s area measurements are total: 702 sq km; land: 702 sq km, water: 0 sq km (freshwater only). This sovereign state is four times the size of Washington, DC (land area only). The total irrigated land is 0 sq km NA (2012).

One of the important features of Micronesia: Composed of four major island groups totaling 607 islands.

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Nauru Google Maps

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Nauru

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Nauru (NR). Explore satellite imagery of no official capital, the capital city of Nauru, on the Google Maps of Oceania below.

Nauru (GPS: 0 32 S, 166 55 E) is located in Oceania, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands. The country’s area measurements are total: 21 sq km; land: 21 sq km, water: 0 sq km. This sovereign state is about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC. The total irrigated land is 0 sq km (2012).

One of the important features of Nauru: World’s smallest island country. Situated just 53 km south of the Equator. Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean – the others are Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and Makatea in French Polynesia.

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