Papua New GuineaCapital: Port Moresby. In Melanesia, by the UN grouping.
Pacific island countries 11
FijiCapital: Suva. In Melanesia, by the UN grouping.
Solomon IslandsCapital: Honiara. In Melanesia, by the UN grouping.
VanuatuCapital: Port Vila. In Melanesia, by the UN grouping.
SamoaCapital: Apia. In Polynesia, by the UN grouping.
TongaCapital: Nukuʻalofa. In Polynesia, by the UN grouping.
TuvaluCapital: Funafuti. In Polynesia, by the UN grouping.
KiribatiCapital: South Tarawa. In Micronesia, by the UN grouping.
NauruCapital: Yaren. In Micronesia, by the UN grouping.
Marshall IslandsCapital: Majuro. In Micronesia, by the UN grouping.
Federated States of MicronesiaCapital: Palikir. In Micronesia, by the UN grouping.
PalauCapital: Ngerulmud. In Micronesia, by the UN grouping.
How this list was compiled: Countries, outlines and seas: Natural Earth 5.1.2 (credited under the drawing). The rim countries are every country with a coast on the Pacific or one of the listed seas between Russia and Chile; the island countries are the eleven independent island states of Oceania other than Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, as the UN M49 standard files them under Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/overview/, read 2026-09-24. Capitals and accepted names: the site's own country datasets (data/countries-of-the-world-quiz.json, oceania-capitals-quiz.json, central-america-map-quiz.json, south-america-capitals-quiz.json, asia-map-quiz.json, hard-geography-quiz.json), checked when those were written. Capital stars: Natural Earth 5.1.2 populated places. Sea detail lines: the English Wikipedia article in each sea's wikipedia field, MediaWiki API, 2026-09-24. Licence: own work
The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_geography_marine_polys (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_geography_marine_polys.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Capitals from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_populated_places_simple (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_populated_places_simple.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Equal Earth projection centred on 160°W. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. 7 places are too small to draw at this scale and shown as a dot. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)
How it works
This Oceania blank map shows its 14 countries: Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and 11 island countries of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
Read the full guide
Blank, numbered or named
The sheet opens blank. Choose Numbered to put a number on each of the 14 countries of Oceania, or Named for their names, then press Print this map; the answer key prints on its own sheet.
An Oceania outline map of small islands
Eleven countries, from Fiji and Samoa to Nauru and Tuvalu, are too small to write on at this scale, so each is joined by a line to a ring where its number or name goes.
Start with the three large countries, Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, then the ringed island countries one region at a time.
Questions and answers
How many countries are in Oceania?
Fourteen independent countries: Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Nauru, Palau, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia.
What are Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia?
The three island regions of the Pacific. On this map Melanesia holds 4 countries, Micronesia 5 and Polynesia 3; Australia and New Zealand are counted on their own.
Is Hawaii on the map?
No. Hawaii is a state of the United States, so the map numbers only the 14 independent countries of Oceania.