The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000km2 (27,240,000sqmi) or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface.[5] It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by the Southern Ocean or Antarctica, depending on the definition in use.[6] Along its core, the Indian Ocean has some large marginal or regional seas such as the Arabian Sea, the Laccadive Sea, the Somali Sea, Bay of Bengal, and the Andaman Sea.
The Indian Ocean, according to the CIAThe World Factbook[4] (blue area), and as defined by the IHO (black outline - excluding marginal waterbodies).
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