Tag: pacific

It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.

At 165,250,000 square kilometers in area , this largest division of the World Oceanand, in turn, the hydrospherecovers about 46% of Earth’s water surface and about one-third of its total surface area, making it larger than all of Earth’s land area combined. The centers of both the Water Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere are in the Pacific Ocean.