Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean in the world, accounting for 20% of the total ocean area. It is surrounded by the Indian Subcontinent and the Arabian Peninsula in the north, East Africa in the west, the Indochina Peninsula and the Sunda Islands and Australia in the east, and the Antarctic Sea in the south. The name comes from India. The Indian Ocean is north of the Antarctic Ocean and is accurately described as an area ranging from 20 ° east of Cape Agulhas to 146 ° 55 'east of the Pacific Ocean. The northernmost part of the Indian Ocean is the Persian Gulf region, about 30 ° from Beijing. The width is about 10,000 km from the south of Africa to Australia and covers an area of 73,556,000 km² including the Red Sea and Persia alone. The volume is estimated to be about 292,131,000 km³. The island nations of the Indian Ocean are the world's fourth largest Madagascar, including Reunion, Comoros, Seychelles, the Maldives, Mauritius and Sri Lanka. The Indonesian archipelago is the eastern boundary of the Indian Ocean.