Demographics of Oceania

Oceania

Geopolitical Oceania
Area	8,525,989 km2 (3,291,903 sq mi)
Population	44,491,724 (2021, 6th)
Population density	4.19/km2 (10.9/sq mi)
Demonym	Oceanian
Countries	14 (list of countries)  Australia  Fiji  Kiribati  Marshall Islands  Federated States of Micronesia  Nauru  New Zealand  Palau  Papua New Guinea  Samoa  Solomon Islands  Tonga  Tuvalu  Vanuatu Associated (2) (list)  Cook Islands  Niue
Dependencies	External (21) (list) American Samoa Ashmore and Cartier Islands Baker Island Clipperton Island Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Coral Sea Islands French Polynesia Guam Howland Island Jarvis Island Johnston Atoll Kingman Reef Midway Atoll New Caledonia Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Pitcairn Islands Tokelau Wake Island Wallis and Futuna Internal (4) (list) Easter Island Hawaii, United States Juan Fernández Islands Palmyra Atoll
Languages	29 (official and unofficial) Bislama Carolinian Chamorro Cook Islands Māori Cocos Malay (unofficial) English Fijian French Futunan (unofficial) Gilbertese Hawaiian Hindi Hiri Motu Indonesian Māori Marshallese Nauruan Niuean Palauan Pitkern (unofficial) Rapa Nui (unofficial) Rotuman (unofficial) Samoan Spanish Tahitian (unofficial) Tokelauan Tongan Tok Pisin Tuvaluan Wallisian (unofficial)
Time zones	UTC+14 (Kiribati) to UTC-11 (American Samoa and Niue) (West to East)
Largest cities	List of cities in Oceania Sydney, Australia Melbourne, Australia Brisbane, Australia Perth, Australia Auckland, New Zealand Adelaide, Australia Wellington, New Zealand Honolulu, Hawaii, United States Canberra, Australia Christchurch, New Zealand Jayapura, Indonesia Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Nouméa, New Caledonia Gold Coast, Australia

Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean.^[1] Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania vary, with it being defined in various ways, often geopolitically or geographically. In the geopolitical conception used by the United Nations, International Olympic Committee, and many atlases, the Oceanic region includes Australia and the nations of the Pacific from Papua New Guinea east, but not the Malay Archipelago or Indonesian New Guinea.^[2][3][4] The term is sometimes used more specifically to denote Australasia as a geographic continent,^[5][6] or biogeographically as a synonym for either the Australasian realm (Wallacea and Australasia) or the Oceanian realm (Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia apart either from New Zealand^[7] or from mainland New Guinea^[8]).

Although Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands belong to the Commonwealth of Australia and are inhabited, they are nearer Indonesia than the Australian mainland, and are commonly associated with Asia instead of Oceania.