Landlocked it would be the Caspian Sea 163,800 square miles.
Open sea it would be the Mediterranean Sea 1,145,000 square miles.
2006-12-09 05:44:57
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answered by drkstr1973 3
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From the largest to the smallest: the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean.
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.
Overview
The ocean encompasses a third of the Earth's surface, having an area of 179.7 million square kilometres (69.4 million sq mi and 161 million cubic mi) —significantly larger than Earth's entire landmass, with room for another Africa to spare. Extending approximately 15,500 kilometres (9,600 mi) from the Bering Sea in the Arctic to the icy margins of Antarctica's Ross Sea in the south (although the Antarctic regions of the Pacific are sometimes described as part of the circumpolar Southern Ocean), the Pacific reaches its greatest east-west width at about 5°N latitude, where it stretches approximately 19,800 kilometres (12,300 mi) from Indonesia to the coast of Colombia and Peru. The western limit of the ocean is often placed at the Strait of Malacca. The lowest point on earth—the Mariana Trench—lies 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) below sea level. Its average depth is 4,300 metres (14,000 ft).
The Pacific contains about 25,000 islands (more than the total number in the rest of the world's oceans combined), the majority of which are found south of the equator.
The Pacific Ocean is currently shrinking from plate tectonics, while the Atlantic Ocean is increasing in size.
Along the Pacific Ocean's irregular western margins lie many seas, the largest of which are the Celebes Sea, Coral Sea, East China Sea, Philippine Sea, Sea of Japan, South China Sea, Sulu Sea, Tasman Sea, and Yellow Sea. The Strait of Malacca joins the Pacific and the Indian Oceans on the west, and the Strait of Magellan links the Pacific with the Atlantic Ocean on the east. To the north, the Bering Strait connects the Pacific with the Arctic Ocean.
As the Pacific straddles the ± 180° meridian, the West Pacific (or western Pacific, near Asia) is actually in the Eastern Hemisphere, while the East Pacific (or eastern Pacific, near the Americas) is actually in the Western Hemisphere.
You could get more information from the link below...
2006-12-09 07:09:35
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answered by catzpaw 6
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Mediterranean Sea
north by Europe, south by Africa, east by Asia
Caribbean Sea
part of the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Gulf of Mexico
South China Sea
part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan
whole list of sea and oceans available below! x)
2006-12-09 06:05:33
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answered by pigley 4
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some oceans are seas. i believe the arctic is a sea, and maybe the indian. interestingly they are also "mediterranean seas"... i.e. the "arctic mediterranean sea"...
2006-12-09 05:52:44
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answered by Anonymous
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