Oceania is a vast expanse of the world where the Pacific Ocean — rather than land borders — separates nations, and here we include Australasia. Glistening white beaches, coconut palms swaying in the breeze, beautiful coral reefs, and rugged volcanic islands rising out of the blue ocean. Its diverse nations have some of the world's most international cities, and some of its most remote villages.

Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea are by far the largest countries in this pseudo-continent and the former two are the most visited by travellers. Oceania includes the vast island nation groupings of Polynesia — extending from New Zealand to the north and east, Melanesia — to the north, but still south of the equator, and Micronesia — further north still and almost wholly in the Northern Hemisphere.

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