Ocean or sea is a vast sea and the salty water mass that covers the surface of the dial-connect the Earth bounded by continents or large islands. Oceans cover 71% of the earth's surface, with an area of about 361 million square kilometers, the contents ofthe ocean about 1370 million km ³, with an average depth of 3790 meters. Smaller parts of the ocean is the sea, strait, bay. Below is a list of the world's five oceans, from the largest to smallest:
1. Ocean Pacific (179.7 million km ²)
Pacific Ocean is the world's largest body of water. He covers approximately one third of the Earth's surface, with an area of 179.7 million km ² (69.4 million mi ²). The length ofapproximately 15,500 miles of Bering Sea ice in the Arctic to the restrictions in the Ross Sea in Antarctica in the south. Pacific Ocean reaches its greatest east-west width at about 5 degrees N latitude, where it stretches approximately 19,800 km fromIndonesia to the coast of Colombia. Western ocean boundary is usually placed in the Strait of Malacca. The lowest point of the Earth's surface-are-the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. Ocean is located between Asia and Australia to the west, America in the east, the Antarctic in the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north. Ocean Pacific contains about 25,000 islands (more than the number of islands in the oceans of the world if combined), the majority located in the south of the equator.
2. Atlantic Ocean (106.4 million km ²)
Atlantic Ocean is the world's second largest ocean, covering about 1 / 5 the surface of the Earth. The word comes from Greek mythology Atlantic, which means "Sea of Atlas". This Ocean S-shaped, extending from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere, is divided in two by the equator into the North Atlantic and South Atlantic.Bordered by North America and South America in the western part of the ocean andEurope and Africa in the eastern ocean. Covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface,the Atlantic Ocean is second largest in terms of size after the Pacific Ocean. Togetherwith the ocean surrounding it have an area of 106,450,000 km ², if the seas around itare not counted, the extent of 82,362,000 km ². The number of areas that flow into theAtlantic Ocean four times larger than the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean. Volume of the Atlantic Ocean with the surrounding seas is 354,700,000 km ³ and without it is323,600,000 km ³.
Average depth of the Atlantic Ocean, with the surrounding ocean is 3332 m (10,932 ft)
