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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Oceania in the west and the Americas in the east. At 165,250,000 square kilometers in area , this largest division of the World Ocean and the hydrosphere covers about 46% of Earth's water surface and about 32% of its total surface area, larger than Earth's entire land area combined 148,000,000 km2 . into two largely independent volumes of water, which meet at the equator: the North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean . These oceans may be divided to describe the Northeast Pacific Ocean with its coasts along North America, the Southeast Pacific , Northwest Pacific , and the Southwest Pacific . 