The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest among all other oceans has a total area of 85,133,000 km² which is almost 24% of total water bodies in the earth. It has the second longest coastline is about 111,866 kilometers. Atlantic Ocean is bordered by Africa and Europe to the east and Americas to the west. It consists of the Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Like the Pacific Ocean, it also reaches out to Antarctic Ocean in the south and Arctic Ocean in the north. It is the home of numerous marine species, including the sperm whale that is the largest living toothed animal.
The Atlantic Ocean has contributed fundamentally to the improvement and economy of neighboring nations. Other than major transoceanic transportation and correspondence routes, the Atlantic offers plenteous petroleum stores in the sedimentary rocks of the continental shelves. The Atlantic harbors petroleum and gas fields, angle, marine mammals like seals and whales, sand and rock aggregates, placer stores, poly-metallic knobs, and valuable stones. Gold stores are a mile or two submerged on the sea floor; however the stores are additionally encased in shake that must be mined through. As of now, there is no financially savvy path to mine or dig out gold from the sea to make a benefit. Different global settlements endeavor to diminish contamination caused by ecological dangers, for example, oil slicks, marine flotsam and jetsam, and the burning of dangerous squanders at sea.
Atmosphere is affected by the temperatures of the surface waters and water streams as well as winds. In light of the ocean’s extraordinary ability to store and discharge warm, oceanic atmospheres are more direct and have less outrageous regular varieties than inland atmospheres. Precipitation can be approximated from beach front climate information and air temperature from water temperatures.
List of countries and territories bordering the Pacific Ocean
This is a list of states and territories with a coastline on the Pacific are:
- Europe
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Malta
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- Northern Cyprus
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Faroe Islands (DEN)
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guernsey (UK)
- Isle of Man (UK)
- Jersey (UK)
- Africa
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Liberia
- Libya
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Republic of the Congo
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- South Africa
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Bouvet Island (NOR)
- Canary Islands (ESP)
- Madeira (PRT)
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK)
- Western Sahara (claimed by MAR)
- Asia
- Cyprus
- Egypt
- Georgia
- Israel
- Lebanon
- Russia
- Syria
- Turkey
- Abkhazia
- Gaza Strip
- Northern Cyprus (CYP)
- South America
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Guyana
- Suriname
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- French Guiana (FRA)
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK)
- North and Central America
- Belize
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- United States
- Bermuda (UK)
- Greenland (DEN)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon (FRA)
- Caribbean
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Grenada
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Aruba (NED)
- Bonaire (NED)
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Curaçao (NED)
- Guadeloupe (FRA)
- Martinique (FRA)
- Montserrat (UK)
- Saba (NED)
- Puerto Rico (USA)
- Saint Barthélemy (FRA)
- Sint Maarten (NED)
- Saint Martin (FRA)
- int Eustatius (NED)
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- United States Virgin Islands (USA)
- Anguilla (UK)
