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Indian ocean

Daga Wikipedia, Insakulofidiya ta kyauta.

Tekun india ya kasance teku na Uku a duniya acikin tafkuna biyar masu girma a duniya Wanda girmansa da fadin sa ya 70,560,000 km2 (27,240,000 Wanda ya mamaye kimanin kashi ishirin mi na Iyakar ruwa a duniya.

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CIA World Fact Book 2018
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"'Indian Ocean' — Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online". Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2012. ocean E of Africa, S of Asia, W of Australia, & N of Antarctica area ab 73,427,795 square kilometres (28,350,630 sq mi)
Harper, Douglas. "Indian Ocean". Online Etymology Dictionary. Archived from the original on 14 January 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2011. first attested 1515 in Modern Latin (Oceanus Orientalis Indicus), named for India, which projects into it; earlier it was the Eastern Ocean, as opposed to the Western Ocean (Atlantic) before the Pacific was surmised.