Pacific Ocean General Knowledge

Difficultly level: hard. Can you guess these facts about the Pacific Ocean?

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Region surrounding the Pacific responsible for 90% of the world's earthquakes

Ring of Fire

The deepest part of the world's oceans

Mariana Trench

Largest city located on the Yangtze river delta

Shanghai

Largest island which touches the Pacific (not counting Australia)

New Guinea

Of the countries that border the Pacific, the last one alphabetically

Vietnam

Smallest country which touches the Pacific

Nauru

Alaskan island chain that spans a distance of over 1900 kilometers

Aleutian Islands

Sea, named for a Dutch explorer, that separates New Zealand and Australia

Tasman Sea

Major Mexican peninsula which juts into the Pacific

Baja California

Most populous Russian city on the Pacific

Vladivostok

Island, also known as Rapa Nui, that is famous for its statues of giant heads

Easter Island

Country which the above island is part of

Chile

The three major regions of Oceania that end in "nesia"

Melanesia

Micronesia

Polynesia

Line at roughly 180° of longitude which could be considered the opposite of the Greenwich Meridian

International Date Line

Hawaii volcano that is the tallest mountain in the world when measured from its base on the ocean floor

Mauna Kea

Most populous island in French Polynesia

Tahiti

Japanese island that was the site of the deadliest battle in the Pacific theater of WWII

Okinawa

Sea which borders 10 different countries – with China trying to claim nearly all of it

South China Sea

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45 Comments

+31

Level 85

Nov 30, 2017

Please accept amnesia ;)

+71

Level 81

Nov 30, 2017

What the heck is amnesia? I´m sure I used to know it, but somehow I forgot ...

Level 84

Dec 1, 2017

loss of memory

Level 65

Jul 23, 2025

Loss of what?

Level 18

Jan 4, 2018

Lol

Level 58

Mar 19, 2018

Make sure you don’t have tally marks on your arm... oh, wait, I have some on mine, but I can’t seem to remember how they got there or why I’m writing this. ;)

Level 65

Mar 19, 2018

Is that what happens when you have amnesia and deja vu at the same time?

Level 69

Nov 28, 2020

Apparently so.

Level 89

Dec 4, 2017

way too much time! It is not an easy quiz, moderately tough, but 8 minutes is way too generous. good variety of questions.

Level 78

Dec 6, 2017

agreed. I got bored trying to think of the last two and I still had like 4 minutes to go.

Level 73

Mar 19, 2018

It was the right amount for me. I finally remembered the third "nesia" with 45 seconds left. Great quiz for me.

Level 41

Mar 19, 2018

Please accept just California

+18

Level 43

Mar 19, 2018

that is a state in the US, not a part of Mexico.

Level 73

Mar 19, 2018

Baja was accepted for me. Americans often shorten it, but not to California - too confusing, as Paco said, with the US state. (Perhaps it is different in Mexico.)

Level 79

Mar 19, 2018

For some reason I thought the name of the largest island was "Papua" instead of "New Guinea"...

Level 53

Mar 19, 2018

Can you please accept 'Papua' for New Guinea as well :)

Level 70

Mar 19, 2018

Papua itself is a province of Indonesia on the west of the island and the cultural group. New Guinea is the name of the island but could well have been called Papua in the past.

Level 91

Mar 19, 2018

And, of course, Papua is used in the name of the other half of the island that isn't the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua.

I'd suggest it's like Munchen or Den Haag - it's not the English name, but it is something the island is called.

+12

Level 58

Mar 19, 2018

The name of the island is New Guinea. Papua is simply incorrect and is not used in English to refer to the whole island, officially or otherwise. Why do you want an incorrect answer to be acceptable?

Level 67

Mar 19, 2018

The largest island is Borneo. New Guinea is half of that island.

+13

Level 69

Mar 20, 2018

Nope. Borneo is divided between Malaysia, Indonesia, and the small country of Brunei. New Guinea is the name of one of the largest islands in the world, which itself is split between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Level 74

Jul 29, 2018

New Guinea is bigger than Borneo

Level 80

Mar 19, 2018

So you're saying, 786,000 km² = 0.5 * 752,000 km² ?

Interesting...

Level 67

Mar 19, 2018

My bad. You're right. Thanks

Level 80

Mar 20, 2018

I did so good on this test. I'm so very proud of myself. And I'm cute, too.

Level 67

Jan 31, 2022

ok...?

Level 58

Jun 8, 2022

Not so good at English grammar though... :-)

Level 43

Mar 20, 2018

accept guinea?

Level 62

Jan 28, 2022

Thats a country in Africa

Level 69

Mar 20, 2018

Spelled Vanuatu every way I could think for #5...

Level 80

Mar 21, 2018

Isn't having amnesia and deja vu at the same time "the feeling you've forgotten this before"?

Level 92

Jun 6, 2018

15/20

Level 66

Dec 25, 2021

Rapa Nui is also the name for the island

Level 79

Jun 8, 2022

As mentioned in the question

Level 67

Jun 8, 2022

Vietnam's in the Pacific?

Level 54

Jun 9, 2022

It borders it, yes

Level 65

Jun 8, 2022

I wrote Aleut and Aleuts instead of Aleutian Islands

Level 39

Jun 11, 2022

Please accept anti meridian. Antimeridian is the name for 180° of longitude, and in fact the international date line doesn't even follow 180° because it squiggles around Kiribati, Samoa and Tonga.

Level 70

Jul 22, 2025

And also russia and alaska.

Level 66

Apr 15, 2024

If China and Southeast Asia are included in the Pacific Theater, there will be countless tragic battles. For example, in the Battle of Songhu, during the same three-month battle, some data stated that the Japanese army suffered more than 90,000 casualties and the Chinese army suffered more than 250,000 casualties. In the battle to defend Wuhan, the Chinese army suffered as many as 650,000 casualties.

Level 87

Jul 22, 2025

Easy, 100%.

Level 48

Jul 22, 2025

Doesn’t Nauru have a larger coastline than Tuvalu? Tuvalu is about 15 miles and Nauru is about 19 miles. I believe Tuvalu is the smallest country that touches the Pacific?

Level 48

Jul 22, 2025

I think Papua New Guinea should work for the question as well. That’s really knit picky. If you ask the average person, they will call it Papua New Guinea. I mean it’s really the Gulf of Mexico! Calling it the Gulf of America just sounds silly. I’m kind of surprised he didn’t call it the Gulf of Trump?

Level 74

Jul 23, 2025

What is it with American quizzers always trying to claim the highest mountain with "if measured from the sea"?

Well Mount Chimborazo is the highest if measured from the centre of the Earth.

And the UK has the most Olympic medals per capita by nearly twice as many as the USA with the Bahamas on 7x as many.

Level 81

Jul 23, 2025

Spent way to long thinking I had spelled Yucatan wrong before the penny dropped!