Pacific Ocean (Pacific Ocean: Latin: Mare Pacificu) is the largest ocean in the world. It stretches south to Antarctica; Asia and Australia enclosed in the west; And before that there are two continents of America. The Pacific Ocean area is 169.2 million square kilometers (65.3 million square miles), which is 32 percent of the Earth's surface, 46 percent of all the water and more than all the ground surface of the earth. The geo-central line divides it into the North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. [1]
The total number of islands in the Pacific is approximately 25 thousand [citation needed], which is more than the number of combined four ocean islands. Most islands are located in the South Pacific Ocean. In the Pacific, there are small islands like Micronesia and Polynesia, as well as large islands like Taiwan, New Guyana. Mariana Trench is the world's deepest area even in the Pacific Ocean. Its depth is about 10 thousand 911 meters. If compared, the depth of Mount Everest is more than that. Although the name is tranquil, approximately 70 percent of the world's volcano is located in this ocean. [Citation needed] The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef in the world, in the Pacific Ocean. In the Pacific there are some of the important river routes and harbors in the world. Among the ports are Sydney Harbar, Shanghai, Singapore, Bangkok, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
