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1[[quoteright:279:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oceania_3233.jpg]]
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3Also known as the continent of Australia (not to be confused with the individual country which is a part of it), Oceania is {{UsefulNotes/Australia}}, UsefulNotes/NewZealand, and the Pacific Islands. It's a political continent rather than a geographic one, because it's not a huge landmass but a collection of atolls and islands. To confuse the terminology further, Oceania is often considered part of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Asia}} Asian]] ''region'' (but not the continent), and is often grouped with South Asia and UsefulNotes/TheFarEast as the Asia-Pacific.
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5The islands are divided in three zones: Melanesia being the islands north and northwest of Australia (the [[UsefulNotes/{{Indonesia}} Indonesian]] provinces of Papua and West Papua, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and New Caledonia); Micronesia, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin micro-islands]] north of Melanesia (Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Wake Island, etc.) and Polynesia, with [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a lot of islands]] (New Zealand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Samoa, Cook Islands, [[UsefulNotes/RapaNui Easter Island]] (part of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Chile}} Chilean]] Valparaíso region), the [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates US]] state of UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}, UsefulNotes/FrenchPolynesia, etc.).
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7You might also hear the term Australasia (literally "south of Asia"), this being Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea (the whole island) and some neighbor islands, including some of Indonesia. Sometimes Australasia is used the same way as 'trans-Tasman' to refer to Australia and New Zealand alone, as seen in the region list below.
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9Regarding tropes, there are few of them here. Why? The islands have achieved independence only in TheSeventies and TheEighties. With the exception of the biggest three[[note]]Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea[[/note]], every single country here has less than a million people, and most have less than 200,000. In fact, Oceania is the second-least populated continent on Earth after UsefulNotes/{{Antarctica}} and has the lowest population of the permanently inhabited continents, housing only 38 million inhabitants (in comparison, UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica, the third-least populated continent, has 422 million inhabitants).
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11Do not confuse with Oceania from ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', which comprises mutually exclusive territories.
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13Also see PacificIslandersInMedia.
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15[[index]]
16!Countries
17[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/regions_of_oceania.png]]
18!!Australasia
19* UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} (sometimes considered to be a continent by itself)
20->'''Capital''': Canberra
21->'''Largest City''': UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}}
22* UsefulNotes/NewZealand (also considered to be part of Polynesia)
23->'''Capital''': UsefulNotes/{{Wellington}}
24->'''Largest City''': UsefulNotes/{{Auckland}}
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26!!Polynesia
27* UsefulNotes/{{Samoa}}
28->'''Capital & Largest City''': Apia
29* UsefulNotes/{{Tonga}}
30->'''Capital & Largest City''': Nuku'alofa
31* UsefulNotes/{{Tuvalu}}
32->'''Capital & Largest City''': Funafuti
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34!!Melanesia
35* UsefulNotes/{{Fiji}}
36->'''Capital & Largest City''': Suva
37* UsefulNotes/PapuaNewGuinea
38->'''Capital & Largest City''': Port Moresby
39* UsefulNotes/SolomonIslands
40->'''Capital & Largest City''': Honiara
41* UsefulNotes/{{Vanuatu}}
42->'''Capital & Largest City''': Port Vila
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44!!Micronesia
45* UsefulNotes/FederatedStatesOfMicronesia
46->'''Capital''': Palikir
47->'''Largest City''': Weno
48* UsefulNotes/{{Kiribati}}
49->'''Capital & Largest City''': South Tarawa
50* UsefulNotes/MarshallIslands
51->'''Capital & Largest City''': Majuro
52* UsefulNotes/{{Nauru}}
53->'''Capital''': Yaren (''de facto'')
54->'''Largest City''': Denigomodu
55* UsefulNotes/{{Palau}}
56->'''Capital''': Ngerulmud
57->'''Largest City''': Koror
58
59!Dependencies
60!!Polynesia
61* UsefulNotes/AmericanSamoa (Belongs to the United States)
62->'''Capital''': Pago Pago
63->'''Government Seat''': Fagatogo
64->'''Largest Village''': Tāfuna
65* UsefulNotes/CookIslands (Self-governing country in free association with New Zealand)
66->'''Capital & Largest City''': Avarua
67* UsefulNotes/FrenchPolynesia (Belongs to France)
68->'''Capital''': Papeete
69->'''Largest City''': Fa'a'ā
70* UsefulNotes/{{Niue}} (Self-governing country in free association with New Zealand)
71->'''Capital & Largest City''': Alofi
72* UsefulNotes/NorfolkIsland (Belongs to Australia)
73->'''Capital''': Kingston
74->'''Largest City''': Burnt Pine
75* UsefulNotes/PitcairnIslands (Belongs to the United Kingdom)
76->'''Capital & Largest Settlement''': Adamstown
77* UsefulNotes/{{Tokelau}} (Belongs to New Zealand)
78->'''Capital''': None
79->'''Largest City''': Atafu
80* UsefulNotes/WallisAndFutuna (Belongs to France)
81->'''Capital & Largest City''': Mata-Utu
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83!!Melanesia
84* UsefulNotes/NewCaledonia (Belongs to France)
85->'''Capital & Largest City''': Nouméa
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87!!Micronesia
88* UsefulNotes/{{Guam}} (Belongs to the United States)
89->'''Capital''': Hagåtña
90->'''Largest City''': Dededo
91* UsefulNotes/NorthernMarianaIslands (Belongs to the United States)
92->'''Capital & Largest City''': Saipan
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94!Defunct countries, empires, kingdoms, and so on
95* UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan
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97!Useful Notes and other articles related to Oceanians and Oceanian culture
98!!Oceania in General
99* UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball
100* ClamshellCurrency
101* CreatorsOfPacificIslandsDescent
102* DevelopingNationsLackCities (the Pacific Islands)
103* UsefulNotes/EnglishLanguage
104** UsefulNotes/AustralianEnglish
105*** UsefulNotes/AustralianAccent
106*** UsefulNotes/AustralianSlang
107* ForcesWithFirepower
108** UsefulNotes/AussiesWithArtillery (Australian military)
109** UsefulNotes/KiwisWithCarbines (New Zealand military)
110* GratuitousForeignLanguage
111** GratuitousEnglish
112* HungryJungle
113* JungleWarfare
114* MaliciousMonitorLizard
115* [[NationalStereoTypes/{{Oceania}} National Stereotypes]]
116* PacificIslandersInMedia
117* Myth/PacificMythology
118** {{Mana}}
119* UsefulNotes/SchoolSystems
120** UsefulNotes/AustralianSchoolSystem
121* StormingTheBeaches
122* TropicalEpilogue
123* TropicalIslandAdventure
124* UmbrellaDrink
125* WesternAnimation
126* WesternTerrorists
127* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI
128* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII
129** WorldWarII/WarInAsiaAndThePacific
130** WorksSetInWorldWarII
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132!!Australasia
133''See UsefulNotes/{{Australia}} for everything solely related to Australia''
134* Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths
135** HollywoodDreamtime
136* AngryWhiteMan
137* UsefulNotes/AustralianCuisine
138* MediaNotes/AustralianNewWave
139* UsefulNotes/AustralianWildlife
140* AwesomeAussie
141* BattleBoomerang
142* TheBogan
143* BoxingKangaroo
144* UsefulNotes/TheEmuWar
145* UsefulNotes/EurekaRebellion
146* FakeAustralian
147* UsefulNotes/FirstAustralians
148** UsefulNotes/AustralianAborigines
149** UsefulNotes/TorresStraitIslanders
150* {{Flynning}}
151* HighKoalatyCuteness
152* IntimidatingWhitePresence
153* KangarooPouchRide
154* KangaroosRepresentAustralia
155* JunglesSoundLikeKookaburras
156* LaidBackKoala
157* LandDownUnder
158* MonstrousSeal
159* PuzzlingPlatypus
160* SentencedToDownUnder
161* SettlingTheFrontier
162* ShinyNewAustralia
163* SluggishSeal
164* SweetSeal
165* VolatileTasmanianDevil
166* UsefulNotes/TheWest
167* WintryAuroralSky
168* YowiesAndBunyipsAndDropBearsOhMy
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170!!Polynesia
171''See UsefulNotes/{{Samoa}} for everything solely related to Samoa''
172* BornUnderTheSail
173* TerrifyingTiki
174* WildSamoan
175
176!!Melanesia
177''See UsefulNotes/PapuaNewGuinea for everything solely related to Papua New Guinea''
178* CargoCult
179* Myth/PapuanMythology
180[[/index]]

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