Top Ten Largest Oceans and Seas

Water and water bodies are the main constituent of earth as more than 70% of earth's surface is covered by water. Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean and South China Sea are the few largest oceans and sea of the world.

Pacific Ocean covers more than one-third of the entire earth's surface and close to half of Earth's water surface. Atlantic Ocean is world's second largest ocean covering one-fifth of the total surface area of the Earth. Third largest ocean of the world, Indian Ocean is surrounded by Arabian Peninsula and south-east Asia in north, Antarctic in the south, Africa in west and Australia in east. Lying virtually above the Artic Circle, the Artic Ocean is the smallest and the shallowest oceans of the world. South China Sea, one of the largest sea bodies after the 5 largest oceans of the world, clusters hundreds and hundreds of islands in it.

Largest oceans and sea map indicates the name and location of 10 most prominent water bodies of earth. This largest oceans and sea map can prove to be useful especially for educational purposes.

World Top 10 - Largest Oceans and sea

S. NO.	Ocean	Area	Average depth	Maximum depth	Deepest point
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Arctic Ocean South China Sea Caribbean Sea Mediterranean Sea Bering Sea Sea of Okhotsk Gulf of Mexico	60,060,700 29,637,900 26,469,500 5,427,000 895,400 1,049,500 1,144,800 884,900 613,800 615,000	13,215 12,880 13,002 3,953 5,419 8,685 4,688 5,075 2,749 4,874	36,198 30,246 24,460 18,456 16,456 22,788 15,197 15,659 12,001 12,425	Mariana Trench Puerto Rico Trench Sunda Trench 77°45'N; 175°W West of Luzon Off Cayman Islands Off Cape Matapan, Greece Off Buldir Island 146°10'E; 46°50'N Sigsbee Deep