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STAT	Japan	Pacific Ocean	HISTORY
Area > A note	includes Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-gunto), Daito-shoto, Minami-jima, Okino-tori-shima, Ryukyu Islands (Nansei-shoto), and Volcano Islands (Kazan-retto)	includes Bali Sea, Bering Sea, Bering Strait, Coral Sea, East <a href=/country/ch><a href=/country/ch>China</a></a> Sea, Flores Sea, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf of Tonkin, <a href=/encyclopedia/Java-programming-language><a href=/encyclopedia/Java-programming-language>Java</a></a> Sea, <a href=/encyclopedia/Philippines>Philippine</a> Sea, Savu Sea, Sea of <a href=/country/ja>Japan</a>, Sea of Okhotsk, <a href=/kp/South>South</a> <a href=/country/ch><a href=/country/ch>China</a></a> Sea, Tasman Sea, Timor Sea, and other tributary <a href=/kp/water>water</a> bodies
Area > Comparative	slightly smaller than California	about 15 times the size of the US; covers about 28% of the global surface; larger than the total land area of the world
Area > Comparative to US places	slightly smaller than California	about 15 times the size of the US; covers about 28% of the global surface; larger than the total land area of the world
Area > Note	includes Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-gunto), Daito-shoto, Minami-jima, Okino-tori-shima, Ryukyu Islands (Nansei-shoto), and Volcano Islands (Kazan-retto)	includes Bali Sea, Bering Sea, Bering Strait, Coral Sea, East China Sea, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf of Tonkin, Philippine Sea, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, South China Sea, Tasman Sea, and other tributary water bodies
Area > Total	377,915 sq km Ranked 63th.	155.56 million sq km Ranked 1st. 412 times more than Japan
Climate	varies from tropical in south to cool temperate in north	planetary air pressure systems and resultant wind patterns exhibit remarkable uniformity in the south and east; trade winds and westerly winds are well-developed patterns, modified by seasonal fluctuations; tropical cyclones (hurricanes) may form south of Mexico from June to October and affect Mexico and Central America; continental influences cause climatic uniformity to be much less pronounced in the eastern and western regions at the same latitude in the North Pacific Ocean; the western Pacific is monsoonal - a rainy season occurs during the summer months, when moisture-laden winds blow from the ocean over the land, and a dry season during the winter months, when dry winds blow from the Asian landmass back to the ocean; tropical cyclones (typhoons) may strike southeast and east Asia from May to December
Coastline	29,751 km Ranked 6th.	135,663 km Ranked 2nd. 5 times more than Japan
Elevation extremes > Highest point	Fujiyama 3,776 m	sea level 0 m
Geographic coordinates	36 00 N, 138 00 E	0 00 N, 160 00 W
Note	strategic location in northeast Asia	the major chokepoints are the Bering Strait, Panama Canal, Luzon Strait, and the Singapore Strait; the Equator divides the Pacific Ocean into the North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean; dotted with low coral islands and rugged volcanic islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
Location	Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula	body of water between the Southern Ocean, Asia, Australia, and the Western Hemisphere
Map references	Asia	Other
Natural hazards	many dormant and some active volcanoes; about 1,500 seismic occurrences (mostly tremors) every year; tsunamis; typhoons	surrounded by a zone of violent volcanic and earthquake activity sometimes referred to as the "Pacific Ring of Fire"; subject to tropical cyclones (typhoons) in southeast and east Asia from May to December (most frequent from July to October); tropical cyclones (hurricanes) may form south of Mexico and strike Central America and Mexico from June to October (most common in August and September); cyclical El Nino/La Nina phenomenon occurs in the equatorial Pacific, influencing weather in the Western Hemisphere and the western Pacific; ships subject to superstructure icing in extreme north from October to May; persistent fog in the northern Pacific can be a maritime hazard from June to December
Natural resources	negligible mineral resources, fish	oil and gas fields, polymetallic nodules, sand and gravel aggregates, placer deposits, fish
Terrain	mostly rugged and mountainous	surface currents in the northern Pacific are dominated by a clockwise, warm-water gyre (broad circular system of currents) and in the southern Pacific by a counterclockwise, cool-water gyre; in the northern Pacific, sea ice forms in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk in winter; in the southern Pacific, sea ice from Antarctica reaches its northernmost extent in October; the ocean floor in the eastern Pacific is dominated by the East Pacific Rise, while the western Pacific is dissected by deep trenches, including the Mariana Trench, which is the world's deepest

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