Ocean

North Pacific Ocean

The North Pacific is part of the Pacific, the largest ocean basin on Earth: it covers about 63 million square miles and holds more than half of the free water on the planet.

Source: oceanservice.noaa.gov

Where it is

On the Atlas Quest map, the North Pacific Ocean label sits at 25.0° N, 137.7° W, in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

Also labelled Pacific Ocean, Pacific.

Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.

Nearby places

The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:

• Death Valley — about 2,300 km north-east
• Great Salt Lake — about 2,900 km north-east
• Cascade Range — about 2,900 km north-east
• Yellowstone Lake — about 3,300 km north-east

Play with it

• Today’s daily geography challenge — one shared round, playable offline.
• Guess the country by its shape — six guesses, with distance and direction after each.
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