Pacific Ocean

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The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the world's largest body of water. It encompasses a third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 179,700,000 km²179,700,000,000,000 m²
1,797,000,000 ha
69,382,557.89 miles²
. It consists of several parts such as the Chinese Sea.

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