Oceania

Oceania is a geographical (often geopolitical) region consisting of numerous countries and territories ? mostly islands ? in the Pacific Ocean, usually including Australia and New Zealand. For the oceans of the Earth, see Oceans.

Other interpretations of Oceania

• Australia is sometimes not included in Oceania, although a term like Pacific islands would normally be used to describe Oceania without Australia
• Hawaii and the United States territories with no indigenous population in the North Pacific are sometimes included, but are normally grouped with the United States in North America. Hawaiians are a Polynesian race.
• Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the eastern Pacific Ocean, part of the territory of Chile, and is sometimes included in Oceania.
• On rare occasions the term may be stretched even further to include other Pacific island groups such as the Aleutian Islands.