Melanesia
Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from New Guinea in the west to the Fiji Islands in the east, and includes the Arafura Sea.Subregions, as well as sovereign and dependent islands of OceaniaMelanesia is one…Tap on the map to travel |
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Solomon Islands
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Melanesia
- Type: region with 11,100,000 residents
- Description: subregion of the Pacific Ocean
- Categories: group and cultural region
- Location: Oceania
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Latitude of centre
-18.9° or 18° 54' southLongitude of centre
174.2° or 174° 12' eastPopulation
11,100,000Wikidata ID
Q37394Melanesia Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Melanesia
- Afrikaans: Melanesia
- Afrikaans: Melanesie
- Afrikaans: Melanesië
- Albanian: Melanesia
- Amharic: መላኔዥያ
- Arabic: Melanesia
- Arabic: ميلانيزيا
- Arabic: ميلانيسيا
- Armenian: Մելանեզիա
- Arpitan: Mèlanèsia
- Arpitan: Mèlanèsie
- Asturian: Melanesia
- Avaric: Melanesia
- Azerbaijani: Melaneziya
- Basque: Melanesia
- Bavarian: Melanesien
- Belarusian: Меланезія
- Belarusian: Мэланэзія
- Bengali: মেলানেশিয়া
- Bosnian: Melanezija
- Breton: Melanezia
- Bulgarian: Меланезия
- Burmese: မီလန်နီးရှား
- Catalan: Melanèsia
- Cebuano: Melanesia
- Central Bikol: Melanesya
- Chechen: Меланези
- Chinese: Melanesia
- Chinese: 美拉尼西亚
- Chinese: 美拉尼西亚群岛
- Chinese: 美拉尼西亞
- Chuvash: Меланези
- Croatian: Melanezija
- Czech: Melanesie
- Czech: Melanésie
- Czech: Melanézie
- Danish: Melanesien
- Dutch: Melanesie
- Dutch: Melanesië
- Esperanto: Melanezio
- Estonian: Melaneesia
- Faroese: Melanesia
- Fiji Hindi: Melanesia
- Fijian: Melanesia
- Finnish: Melanesia
- French: Melanesie
- French: Mélanésie
- French: Mélanésien
- French: Mélanésienne
- French: Mélanésiens
- Galician: Melanesia
- Georgian: მელანეზია
- German: Melanesien
- German: Melanesisch
- Greek: Μελανησία
- Guianese Creole French: Mélanézi
- Hebrew: מלאנזיה
- Hebrew: מלנזיה
- Hebrew: מלנזים
- Hindi: मॅलानिशिया
- Hindi: मेलानिशिया
- Hindi: मेलानेशिया
- Hindi: मेलानेसिया
- Hungarian: Melanézia
- Icelandic: Melanesía
- Ido: Melanezia
- Iloko: Melanesia
- Indonesian: Melanesia
- Irish: An Mheilinéis
- Italian: Melanesia
- Italian: Melanesiani
- Italian: Melanesiano
- Japanese: メラネシア
- Javanese: Melanesia
- Javanese: Mèlanésia
- Kazakh: Меланезия
- Kinaray-A: Melanesya
- Kinaray-A: Milanisya
- Kirghiz: Меланезия
- Korean: 멜라네시아
- Korean: 멜라네시아인
- Kotava: Melanesia
- Kurdish: Melanezya
- Lao: Melanesia
- Lao: ເມລາເນຊີ
- Latin: Melanesia
- Latvian: Melanēzija
- Limburgan: Melanesië
- Lingua Franca Nova: Melanesia
- Lithuanian: Melanezija
- Macedonian: Меланезија
- Malagasy: Melanezia
- Malay: Melanesia
- Marathi: मेलनेशिया
- Min Nan Chinese: Melanesia
- Mingrelian: მელანეზია
- Nepali: मेलानेसिया
- Northern Frisian: Melaneesien
- Norwegian: Melanesia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Melanesia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Melanesia
- Occitan (post 1500): Melanesia
- Pampanga: Melanesia
- Papiamento: Melanesia
- Persian: ملانزی
- Polish: Melanezja
- Portuguese: Ilhas Melanésias
- Portuguese: Melanesia
- Portuguese: Melanésia
- Quechua: Milanisya
- Romanian: Melanezia
- Russian: Меланезия
- Samoan: Gagana Vanuatu
- Samoan: Melanisia
- Samogitian: Melanezėjė
- Sardinian: Melanèsia
- Scots: Melanesia
- Scots: Melanesie
- Scottish Gaelic: Melanìsia
- Scottish Gaelic: na h-Eileanan Dubha
- Serbian: Меланезија
- Serbian: Меланезије
- Serbo-Croatian: Melanezija
- Silesian: Melanezyjŏ
- Slovak: Melanézia
- Slovenian: Melanezija
- Spanish: Melanesia
- Swahili: Melanesia
- Swedish: Melanesien
- Swedish: Melanesier
- Swiss German: Melanesie
- Tagalog: Melanesya
- Tamil: மெலனீசியா
- Tamil: மெலனேசியா
- Tamil: மெலனேசீயா
- Tatar: Меланезия
- Thai: เมลานีเชีย
- Thai: เมลานีเซีย
- Tok Pisin: Melanesia
- Tosk Albanian: Melanesien
- Turkish: Melanezya
- Turkmen: Melaneziýa
- Uighur: مېلانېزىيە
- Ukrainian: Меланезія
- Urdu: میلانیشیا
- Uzbek: Melaneziya
- Venetian: Mełanèzia
- Vietnamese: Melanesia
- Vlaams: Melanesië
- Waray (Philippines): Melanesia
- Welsh: Melanesia
- Western Frisian: Melaneezje
- Western Mari: Меланези
- Western Panjabi: میلانیشیا
- Wolof: Melaneesi
- Wolof: Melanesi
- Wu Chinese: 美拉尼西亚
- Yoruba: Melanesia
- Yoruba: Melanésíà
- Yue Chinese: 美拉尼西亞
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Melanesia. Photo: alexkehr, CC BY 2.0.