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Pacific Ocean

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Pacific Ocean

Earth's largest and deepest ocean/Water

The Pacific Ocean covers more area than all of Earth's land combined. It stretches from the Arctic to the Antarctic and contains more than half the planet's free water. The name means 'peaceful,' which is ironic given that it's ringed by the most seismically active zone on Earth -- the Ring of Fire.

Measurements

Surface area166 trillion m²
851 billionAmerican houses
830 billionMovie screens

About 166 million square km -- larger than all land on Earth

Total volume710 quadrillion m³
12.1 quintillionBeer kegs
21.5 quadrillionShipping container volumes

Over 710 million cubic km of water

Average depth4,280 m
3,508Shipping pallets
40,762Bagel diameters
15,286Football lengths
Maximum depth (Challenger Deep)10,994 m
366 billionSmoke particles
180Hockey rink lengths
45,618Envelope lengths

Deepest point in any ocean

Width at equator19.8 million m
129 quadrillionDiamond bond lengths
1.4 tenthsJupiter diameters
41.3 millionOffice chair heights

Nearly 20,000 km across at its widest

Total water mass728 quintillion kg
14.6 sextillionRubber ducks
800 quintillionBags of sugar
2 trillionEmpire State Building masses

Roughly 728 billion billion kilograms

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