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Today we will talk about the Indian Ocean.

What do we know about him? Probably the fact that it is located near India and it is true. That in its waters is the island of Madagascar, by the way, the fourth largest island in the world. Many people have heard that not so long ago there was the most destructive tsunami and in this you will also be right. And many people have heard about the beautiful Maldives, and someone has been there and this is also the Indian Ocean. So, in fact, not so much so let's get together and learn more information about this amazing and large-scale object on the planet earth.

The Indian Ocean is The Most Beautiful . It contains the largest bay in the world — the Bay of Bengal.

The largest peninsula on the planet is the Arabian Peninsula. The longest Strait in the world is the Mozambique Channel, 1760 km long. The world's saltiest sea is Red, with a salinity of 42 %.

The Republic of Madagascar is the largest country in the world, occupying one island.

And the island of Java is the most populated island on the planet.

The Indian Ocean occupies the third largest area (76.17 million km2) and covers about 20% of the Earth's water surface.

The area of the Indian Ocean is 10 times the area of the whole of Australia, for that matter.

Then in the place occupied by the Indian Ocean, it would be possible to place 5 Russians or 8-the United States, or the same Chinese, well, or Canadas. Or 575-Greece or 1840-Switzerland.

Its volume is about 12,000 times that of Lake Baikal, the largest freshwater body on Earth.

Between the southern points of Australia and Africa, the width of the Indian Ocean reaches about 10 thousand kilometers.

This ocean washes the shores of four continents at once-all except North and South America.

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