We will inform you about which is the smallest continent, about its division or geographical composition, languages, populations and other data that will be interesting to you.
The large tracts of land surrounded by seas and oceans are the continents, which traditionally number five: Asia, Africa, America, Oceania, and Antarctica. We say traditionally because there are currently discussions about these divisions since some of them are united or slightly separated or come from the same tectonic mass.
What differentiates these continents are not only geographical aspects, but also politics, economy, religion, languages, customs, etc.
The largest continent is Asia and the smallest is Oceania. We will refer to Oceania, its geographical location, population, customs, languages and religion.
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- Oceania, the world’s smallest insular continent, is made up of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Papua, the Micronesian, Polynesian, and Melanesian archipelagos, all distributed in the Pacific Ocean.
- Oceania stretches from Southeast Asia to the Americas across the Pacific Ocean. Thus, the first settlers of Oceania were from Southeast Asia. To be exact, it is made up of 14 islands: Australia, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
- It was Ferdinand Magellan who discovered the Mariana Islands in Oceania, then in 1525 the Carolinas and New Guinea Islands were discovered, the Dutch in 1642 discovered Tasmania, Fiji, Bismark and the Tonga Islands.
- The population of Oceania is very heterogeneous since it is made up of descendants of Europe, there are also indigenous people of different branches such as Polynesians, Milanesians, Micronesians, many mestizos and also blacks and mulattoes, although in smaller numbers.
- Due to this same population heterogeneity, the languages spoken are varied. The main one is English, then French, Spanish and indigenous languages that remain original. In the same way, religion has been influenced by the immigrant population, so Protestantism predominates, then Catholicism and indigenous beliefs are maintained.
- Oceania is the smallest continent and has an extension of 9,008,458 km 2. The largest territory on the continent is Australia with a total area of 7,692,000 km 2, a population, according to the 2015 census of 23,613,193 inhabitants, which implies a population density of 2.9 inhabitants/km 2.
- As for the political situation of Oceania, there are currently many non-independent territories such as the colonies of France and the United Kingdom, there are also dependencies of the United States of America and there are also sovereignty agreements such as Australia, New Zealand, Island de Pascua and Salas y Gómez Island that belong to Chile.
Tips
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