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Earth has one global ocean
There is only one global ocean, a single body of water that covers 71 percent of the Earth.
Why it is true
People divide it into named regions. Historically there were four, the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic, and most countries now recognize the Southern Ocean as a fifth.
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