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The Atlantic ___MASK76___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s ___MASK57___ and about 29 percent of its ___MASK97___ ___MASK57___ area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". Continental Europe , also referred to as mainland Europe , or , by Europeans , simply the ___MASK50___ , is the continuous ___MASK50___ of Europe , excluding surrounding islands . Papua New Guinea ( PNG Hiri Motu : " Papua Niu Gini "), officially the Independent ___MASK52___ of Papua New Guinea , is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the ___MASK43___ of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia , a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia . Its ___MASK5___ , located along its southeastern coast , is Port Moresby . The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua . Java ( Indonesian : Jawa ; Javanese :  ; Sundanese :  ) is an ___MASK43___ of Indonesia . With a population of over 141 million ( the ___MASK43___ itself ) or 145 million ( the ___MASK26___ ) Census released in ___MASK1___ 2015 , Java is home to 56 . 7 percent of the Indonesian population and is the most populous ___MASK43___ on Earth . The Indonesian capital city , Jakarta , is located on western Java . Much of Indonesian history took place on Java . It was the center of powerful Hindu - Buddhist empires , the Islamic sultanates , and the core of the colonial Dutch East Indies . Java was also the center of the Indonesian struggle for independence during the 1930s and 1940s . Java dominates Indonesia politically , economically and culturally . The Celtic ___MASK29___ (; ) is the area of the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Ireland bounded to the east by Saint George ' s Channel ; other limits include the Bristol Channel , the English Channel , and the ___MASK73___ of Biscay , as well as adjacent portions of Wales , Cornwall , Devon , and Brittany . The southern and western boundaries are delimited by the continental shelf , which drops away sharply . The Isles of Scilly are an archipelago of small islands in the sea . Earth , otherwise known as the world , is the third ___MASK41___ from the Sun and the only object in the Universe known to ___MASK84___ life . It is the densest ___MASK41___ in the Solar ___MASK81___ and the largest of the four terrestrial planets . Kimbe is the ___MASK5___ of the province of West New Britain in Papua New Guinea . It is a port town on the great Kimbe ___MASK73___ which boasts more than 60 percent of the coral species of the entire Indo - Pacific . The bustling town of Kimbe is the third largest port in Papua New Guinea and is the fastest growing city in the South Pacific . Accommodation in Kimbe is readily available in many high - class resorts and hotels , as well as many budget guesthouses and motels dribbled along the province . The town of Kimbe is served by Hoskins Airport . ___MASK42___ George ' s Channel in the Bismarck ___MASK62___ , lies between New Ireland and New Britain . It is named by analogy with St George ' s Channel between Great Britain and Ireland . New Guinea ( or , historically , "") is a large ___MASK43___ in the South West Pacific region . Honshu had a ___MASK53___ of 103 million , mostly concentrated in the coastal lowlands , notably in the Kant plain where ___MASK87___ % of the total ___MASK53___ resides in the Greater Tokyo Area . As the historical center of Japanese culture and political power , the island includes several past Japanese capitals , including Kyoto , Nara , and Kamakura . Much of the island ' s southern shore forms part of the Taiheiy ___MASK82___ , a megalopolis that spans several of the Japanese islands . Great Britain , also known as Britain , is a large ___MASK43___ in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe . With an area of , Great Britain is the largest European ___MASK43___ and the ninth - largest in the world . In 2011 the ___MASK43___ had a population of about 61 million people , making it the world ' s third - most populous ___MASK43___ after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan . The ___MASK43___ of Ireland is situated to the west of it , and together these islands , along with over ___MASK27___ , 000 smaller surrounding islands , comprise the British Isles archipelago . German New Guinea was the first ___MASK9___ of the German ___MASK47___ . It was a protectorate from 1884 until 1914 when it fell to Australian forces following the outbreak of the First World War . It consisted of the northeastern ___MASK9___ of New Guinea and several nearby island groups . The mainland ___MASK9___ of German New Guinea and the nearby islands of the Bismarck Archipelago and the North Solomon Islands are now ___MASK9___ of Papua New Guinea . The Micronesian islands of German New Guinea are now governed as the Federated States of Micronesia , the Marshall Islands , Nauru , the Northern Mariana Islands and Palau . The Islands ___MASK24___ is one of ___MASK51___ regions of Papua New Guinea ( PNG ) comprising the Bismarck ___MASK62___ and north - eastern Solomon Islands ___MASK62___ , located north - east of the mainland on eastern New Guinea ___MASK43___ . Kokopo is the ___MASK5___ of East New Britain in Papua New Guinea . The ___MASK5___ was moved from Rabaul in 1994 when the volcanoes Tavurvur and Vulcan erupted . As a result , the population of the town increased more than sixfold from 3 , 150 in 1990 to 20 , 262 in 2000 . An ___MASK43___ or isle is any piece of sub - continental land that is surrounded by ___MASK97___ . Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets , skerries , cays or keys . An ___MASK43___ in a river or a lake ___MASK43___ may be called an eyot or ait , and a small ___MASK43___ off the coast may be called a holm . A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago , e . g . the Philippines . The Irish ___MASK29___ (, , , Ulster - Scots : " Airish ___MASK29___ "), separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain . It is connected to the Celtic ___MASK29___ in the south by St George ' s Channel , and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Channel . Anglesey is the largest island within the Irish ___MASK29___ , followed by the Isle of Man . The ___MASK29___ is occasionally , but rarely , referred to as the Manx ___MASK29___ . New Britain , is the largest ___MASK43___ in the Bismarck Archipelago ( named after Otto von Bismarck ) of Papua New Guinea . It is separated from the ___MASK43___ of New Guinea by the Dampier and Vitiaz Straits and from New Ireland by St . George ' s Channel . The main towns of New Britain are Rabaul / Kokopo and Kimbe . The ___MASK43___ is roughly the size of Taiwan . While the ___MASK43___ was part of German New Guinea , it was named Neupommern (" New Pomerania "). Otto Eduard Leopold , Prince of Bismarck , ___MASK59___ of Lauenburg ( 1 April 1815  30 July 1898 ), known as Otto von Bismarck , was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890 . In the 1860s , he engineered a series of wars that unified the German states , significantly and deliberately excluding Austria , into a powerful German Empire under Prussian leadership . With that accomplished by 1871 , he skillfully used balance of power diplomacy to maintain Germany ' s position in a Europe which , despite many disputes and war scares , remained at peace . For historian Eric Hobsbawm , it was Bismarck who " remained undisputed world champion at the game of multilateral diplomatic chess for almost twenty years after 1871 , [ and ] devoted himself exclusively , and successfully , to maintaining peace between the powers ." The Bismarck ___MASK62___ is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific ___MASK76___ and is ___MASK9___ of the Islands ___MASK21___ . Its area is about 50 , 000 ___MASK63___ km . Pomerania is a ___MASK24___ on the southern shore of the Baltic ___MASK29___ in Central Europe , split between Germany and Poland . Ulster ( or " Cúige Uladh " , Ulster Scots : " Ulstèr " or " Ulster ") is a ___MASK46___ in the north of the island of Ireland . In ancient Ireland , it was one of the fifths ruled by a " rí ruirech ", or " king of over - kings ". The British Isles are a ___MASK69___ of islands off the north - western ___MASK58___ of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain , Ireland and over ___MASK92___ thousand smaller isles . Situated in the North Atlantic , the islands have a total area of approximately 315 , 159 km , and a combined population of just under 70 million . Two sovereign states are located on the islands : Ireland ( which covers roughly ___MASK33___ - sixths of the island with the same name ) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland . The British Isles also include three Crown Dependencies : the Isle of Man and , by tradition , the ___MASK67___ of Jersey and the ___MASK67___ of Guernsey in the Channel Islands , although the latter are not physically a part of the archipelago . Ireland ( Ulster - Scots : ) is an ___MASK43___ in the North Atlantic . It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel , the Irish ___MASK29___ , and St George ' s Channel . Ireland is the second - largest ___MASK43___ of the British Isles , the third - largest in Europe , and the twentieth - largest on Earth . The Pacific ___MASK76___ is the largest of the Earth ' s oceanic divisions . It extends from the Arctic ___MASK76___ in the north to the Southern ___MASK76___ ( or , depending on definition , to Antarctica ) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east . Rabaul is a ___MASK25___ in East New Britain ___MASK46___ , on the island of New Britain , in the country of Papua New Guinea . New Britain is an island about 60 kilometres to the east of the island of New Guinea . Rabaul was the provincial ___MASK5___ and most important settlement in the ___MASK46___ until it was destroyed in 1994 by falling ash of a volcanic eruption . Taiwan , officially the ___MASK90___ of China ( ROC ), is a state in East Asia . Neighbors include China ( officially the People ' s ___MASK90___ of China , abbreviated as PRC ) to the west , Japan to the northeast , and the Philippines to the south . Taiwan is the most populous state that is not a member of the United Nations , and the one with the largest ___MASK95___ . Japan (" Nippon " or " Nihon " ; formally "" or " Nihon - koku ", means " ___MASK52___ of Japan ") is a sovereign ___MASK77___ in Eastern Asia . Located in the Pacific Ocean , It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland ( east of China , Korea , Russia ) and stretching from the ___MASK29___ of Okhotsk in the north to the East China ___MASK29___ and near Taiwan in the southwest . Europe is a ___MASK50___ that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north , the Atlantic Ocean to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of Europe  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " ___MASK50___ " as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the ___MASK50___ ' s current overland boundaries . St George ' s ___MASK30___ is a ___MASK29___ channel connecting the Irish ___MASK29___ to the north and the Celtic ___MASK29___ to the southwest . Vitiaz ___MASK13___ is a ___MASK13___ between New Britain and the Huon Peninsula , northern New Guinea .