Global Area #1 "Oceania"

Worldguru Academy's "Route thru the World" Global Area Position

Oceania is the first global area along Worldguru Academy's "Route thru the World". Oceania contains 14 sovereign countries divided among 3 regions.

Oceania's 3 regions are: Micronesia -> Polynesia -> & Melanesia.

Oceania contains the country continent of Australia which has been spliced to Worldguru Academy's Polynesia region, but is not actually a part of what is commonly known as Oceania's subregion of Polynesia. While Worldguru Academy's primary purpose is to facilitate the learning of all the World's sovereign countries and their capitals by common groupings that share some trait such as all the sovereign countries that end in the suffix "stan", Worldguru Academy attempts to use and replicate existing regions as they are commonly known when they facilitate the academy's primary purpose.

A parachute is shown dropping into Micronesia's western side where Worldguru Academy's "Route thru the World" begins. Each region has a subtle tracing shown as a dashed line as the route travels through it. It is good to take a moment and notice how the route travels through each region and its connection with the next:

1. Micronesia sits at the top of Oceania surrounded by a lime green border and is elongated along an East/West axis. The route through Micronesia is depicted by a dashed line colored "magenta" and is drawn from capital city to capital city of each of Micronesia's sovereign countries. Where the route exits Micronesia a transitional arrow depicts the change of regions.

   The 5 sovereign countries of Oceania's Micronesia in the order they are visited by Worldguru Academy's "Route thru the World" are:

   1. Palau
   2. Federated States of Micronesia
   3. Marshall Islands
   4. Nauru
   5. Kiribati

   Worldguru Academy's 41 regional SVG maps have each country labeled. Clicking a region depicted on the Global Area SVG map opens the regional SVG map for the region clicked.

2. Polynesia is the second region in Oceania that Worldguru Academy's "Route thru the World" visits and is surrounded by a cyan border. The route through Polynesia is depicted by a yellow dashed line that is also drawn through each of Polynesia's 4 sovereign capital cities. As discussed above Australia has been spliced into Worldguru Academy's Polynesia region which differs from the Oceania subregion "Polynesia" which can be viewed by mousing over the red thumbnail.

   The route through Polynesia can be thought of as "trickling down" through the region from North to South until the route departs the 4th country and heads in a west, northwest direction to Australia's capital before the region's departure arrow indicating the direction the route departs Canberra.

   The 5 sovereign countries of Oceania's Polynesia in the order they are visited by Worldguru Academy's "Route thru the World" are:

   1. Tuvalu
   2. Samoa
   3. Tonga
   4. New Zealand
   5. Australia
      • As previously discussed, while not being a true Polynesian country Australia is spliced onto Worldguru Academy's Polynesia region to facilitate Worldguru Academy's primary purpose of facilitating learning all the World's sovereign countries and capitals.

3. Melanesia is the third and final Worldguru Academy region of Oceania. _{Worldguru Academy region is emphasized because Australasia is also a region of Oceania. However with the exception of part of Papua New Guinea, Australia is the only sovereign country of Australasia which does not lend itself very well to a grouping of countries and capitals to learn. Therefore Australia was spliced onto Worldguru Academy's Polynesia region.}