The Pacific Ocean
Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean
Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean
Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia
Asia and Australia
Australia in the west and the Americas
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Americas in the east. At 165,250,000 square kilometers (63,800,000 square miles) in area (as defined with an Antarctic
Antarctic southern border), this largest division of the World Ocean—and, in turn, the hydrosphere—covers about 46% of Earth's water surface and about one-third of its total surface area, making it larger than all of Earth's land area combined.[1] Both the center of the Water Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere are in the Pacific Ocean
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Guangzhou
Guangzhou (Chinese: 广州), formerly known as Canton,[6] is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong
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Guangdong in southern China.[7] Located on the Pearl River about 120 km (75 mi) north-northwest of Hong Kong
Hong Kong and 145 km (90 mi) north of Macau, Guangzhou
Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road[8] and continues to serve as a major port and transportation hub today, as well as one of China's three largest cities.[9] Guangzhou
Guangzhou is situated at the heart of the most-populous built-up metropolitan area in mainland China, an area that extends into the neighboring cities of Foshan, Dongguan, and Shenzhen, forming one of the largest urban agglomerations on the planet
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The hydrosphere (from Greek ὕδωρ hydōr, "water"[1] and σφαῖρα sphaira, "sphere"[2]) is the combined mass of water found on, under, and above the surface of a planet, minor planet or natural satellite. It has been estimated that there are 1386 million cubic kilometers of water on Earth.[3] This includes water in liquid and frozen forms in groundwater, oceans, lakes and streams. Saltwater accounts for 97.5% of this amount. Fresh water
Fresh water accounts for only 2.5%. Of this fresh water, 68.9% is in the form of ice and permanent snow cover in the Arctic, the Antarctic, and mountain glaciers. 30.8% is in the form of fresh groundwater. Only 0.3% of the fresh water on Earth
Earth is in easily accessible lakes, reservoirs and river systems.[3] The total mass of the Earth's hydrosphere is about 1.4 × 1018 tonnes, which is about 0.023% of Earth's total mass
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Coordinates: 18°15′S 35°00′E / 18.250°S 35.000°E / -18.250; 35.000 Republic
Republic of MozambiqueRepública de Moçambique (Portuguese)FlagEmblemAnthem: Pátria Amada (Portuguese) "Beloved Homeland"Location of Mozambique (dark blue) in the African Union (light blue)Capital and largest city Maputo 25°57′S 32°35′E / 25.950°S 32.583°E / -25.950; 32.583Official languages PortugueseDemonym MozambicanGovernment Unitary dominant-party semi-presidential constitutional republic[1][2]
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols.[n 1] The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position, and two or three of the numbers represent a horizontal position
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Argentina
Argentina (South America) Indonesia
Indonesia (Asia)[4][5] Senegal
Senegal (Africa) South Africa
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Africa (Africa) Namibia
Namibia (Africa) Uruguay
Uruguay (South America)[6][7][8]Numerous international organisationsRegulated by International Portuguese Language Institute Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazil) Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras (Portugal) Academia Galega da Língua Portuguesa (Galicia) CPLPLanguage codesISO 639-1 ptISO 639-2 porISO 639-3 porGlottolog port1283[9]Linguasphere 51-AAA-a Native language Official and administrative language Cultural or secondary language Portuguese speaking minorities Portuguese-based creole languagesThis article contains IPA phonetic symbols
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Madagascar
Madagascar (/ˌmædəˈɡæskər/; Malagasy: Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar
Madagascar (Malagasy: Repoblikan'i Madagasikara [republiˈkʲan madaɡasˈkʲarə̥]; French: République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa. The nation comprises the island of Madagascar
Madagascar (the fourth-largest island in the world), and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Following the prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, Madagascar
Madagascar split from the Indian peninsula
Indian peninsula around 88 million years ago, allowing native plants and animals to evolve in relative isolation. Consequently, Madagascar
Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot; over 90% of its wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth
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The Spanish language
Spanish language (/ˈspænɪʃ/ ( listen); Español (help·info)), also called the Castilian language[4] (/kæˈstɪliən/ ( listen), castellano (help·info)), is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain
Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin
Latin America and Spain. It is usually considered the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.[5][6][7][8][9] Spanish is a part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
Western Roman Empire in the 5th century
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The North Pacific is the northern portion of the Earth's largest oceanic division. North Pacific may also refer to:North Pacific (sidewheeler), an early steamboat North Pacific Yachts, a shipbuilding companyThis disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title North Pacific. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the
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Abraham Ortelius
Abraham Ortelius (/ɔːrˈtiːliəs/; also Ortels, Orthellius, Wortels; 14 April 1527 – 28 June 1598) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer, conventionally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). Ortelius is often considered one of the founders of the Netherlandish school of cartography and one of the most notable representatives of the school in its golden age (approximately 1570s–1670s). The publication of his atlas in 1570 is often considered as the official beginning of the Golden Age of Netherlandish cartography
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Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci (Italian pronunciation: [ameˈriːɡo vesˈputtʃi]; March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated in about 1502 that Brazil
Brazil and the West Indies
West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to people of the Old World
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Papuan people
Papuan people are the various indigenous peoples of New Guinea
New Guinea and neighbouring islands, speakers of the Papuan languages. They are often distinguished ethnically and linguistically from Austronesians, speakers of a language family introduced into New Guinea
New Guinea about 3,000 years ago.Contents1 Genetics 2 Papuan ethnic groups2.1 Indonesia
Indonesia territory 2.2 Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea territory3 Notable people 4 Data tables 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksGenetics[edit]A Papuan sailboatIn a 2005 study of ASPM gene variants, Mekel-Bobrov et al
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Coordinates: 13°N 122°E / 13°N 122°E / 13; 122 Republic
Republic of the Philippines Republika ng PilipinasFlagCoat of armsMotto: "Maka-Diyos, Maka-Tao, Makakalikasan at Makabansa"[1] "For God, People, Nature, and Country"Anthem: Lupang Hinirang Chosen LandGreat SealDakilang Sagisag ng Pilipinas (Tagalog) Great Seal of the PhilippinesCapital Manilaa 14°35′N 120°58′E / 14.583°N 120.967°E / 14.583; 120.967Largest city
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The Austronesian people[14] are various groups in Southeast Asia, Oceania
Oceania and East Africa
East Africa that speak languages stemming from the Austronesian family. They include Taiwanese aborigines; the majority of ethnic groups in the Philippines, Malaysia, East Timor, Indonesia, Brunei, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Madagascar, Micronesia, and Polynesia, as well as the Malay people of Singapore, the Polynesian peoples of New Zealand
New Zealand and Hawaii, and the non- Papuan people
Papuan people of Melanesia. All of these people can be connected to the Austronesian language family group
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Antarctica
Antarctica (UK English /ænˈtɑːktɪkə/ or /ænˈtɑːtɪkə/, US English /æntˈɑːrktɪkə/ ( listen))[note 1] is Earth's southernmost continent. It contains the geographic South Pole
South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic
Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic
Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14,000,000 square kilometres (5,400,000 square miles), it is the fifth-largest continent. For comparison, Antarctica is nearly twice the size of Australia
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Diogo Ribeiro, also known as Diego Ribero, was a Portuguese cartographer and explorer who worked most of his life in Spain. He worked on the official maps of the Padrón Real
Padrón Real (or Padrón General) from 1518-1532. He also made navigation instruments, including astrolabes and quadrants.[1]Contents1 Early life 2 Career 3 First scientific world map 4 Notes 5 External links 6 See alsoEarly life[edit] Born as Diogo Ribeiro, he was the son of Afonso Ribeiro and Beatriz de Oliveira.[1] However, there is no known record of the date and place of his birth. He is believed to have become a seaman at an early age and made several voyages to India
India as a ship pilot
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