Pacific regions

Catch-all term for the five feeder regions where new nations are born:

• The East Pacific
• The North Pacific
• The Pacific
• The South Pacific
• The West Pacific

^*(in alphabetical order)

Regions and terminology

Note: These are not the only regions with 'pacific' in their names. There are also regions known as simply North Pacific, South Pacific, etc.; the Northeast Pacific, the Southsouthwest Pacific; or even The Lemurian Pacific. None of these, however, have any of the characteristics that make the five regions above different from all other regions.

Often a Pacific region will be referred to in shorthand without the article "the" preceding it. For example, "South Pacific", instead of "the South Pacific", or "The South Pacific".