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Oceania is made up of 25 countries in the Pacific Ocean, including island nations such as Macao, Samoa, and Vanuatu.

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British Indian Ocean Territory, a British dependency in the Indian Ocean. It consists of the Chagos Archipelago, some 1,200 miles (1,900 km) south-southwest of India. See more »

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Marshall Island

Marshall Islands, a group of coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean that make up the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Micronesia

Micronesia, a name given the Pacific islands extending from the Gilbert Islands, on the Equator, northwestward to the Marianas.

Midway Island

Midway Islands, three small islands, Sand, Eastern, and Spit, that form an atoll belonging to the United States.

New Caledonia

New Caledonia, an island in the South Pacific Ocean, about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) east of Australia.

New Guinea Island

New Guinea, a large island in the western Pacific Ocean lying immediately south of the Equator.

Northern Marianas

Northern Marianas, a commonwealth associated with the United States. Its official name is Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Palau

Palau, an island country in the western Caroline islands, 550 miles (880 km) east of the Philippines.

Rabaul

Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, a town and port on the northeastern end of New Britain Island, in the Bismarck Archipelago.

Tahiti

Tahiti, the largest island of the Society Islands and a part of French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the South Pacific.

The Bonin Islands

Bonin Islands,(Japanese: Ogasawara Gunto), a group of about 30 small volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean.

The Caroline Islands

Caroline Islands, a group of about 500 volcanic and coral islands in Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean.

The Cook Islands

Cook Islands, a group of 15 small volcanic islands and coral atolls in the South Pacific, stretching over a distance of 800 miles (1,300 km) between Samoa and Tahiti.

Tuvalu

Tuvalu, an independent country in the South Pacific Ocean. Tuvalu consists of a chain of nine coral atolls with an area of about 10 square miles (26 km 2).