Oceania covers about 8,600,000 km², roughly 6.3% of the world's land and the 6th largest continent. It spans 25 countries and territories, from Australia (7,741,220 km²) down to Nauru.
At true size Oceania is about 0.19× the size of Asia. On old Mercator maps that gap shrank or swelled depending on latitude. On the new map it is simply true.
Mercator's distortion hits Oceania unevenly: Heard Island and McDonald Islands is inflated about 2.8× at its latitude, while Nauru, near the equator, is drawn almost honestly. Old maps therefore made Oceania's northern countries feel dominant while hiding the scale of its equatorial ones.
Oceania: largest countries by true area
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Australia · Papua New Guinea · New Zealand · Solomon Islands · New Caledonia · Fiji · Vanuatu · French Polynesia · Samoa · Kiribati · Tonga · Micronesia · Guam · Palau · Northern Mariana Islands · Heard Island and McDonald Islands · Niue · Cook Islands · American Samoa · Marshall Islands · Wallis and Futuna · Indian Ocean Territories · Pitcairn Islands · Norfolk Island · Nauru