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Country
Country
Arctic Ocean
Country in French
Océan Boréal
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OCEAN BOREAL
Country in Chinese
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Arctic Ocean
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Arctic Ocean
ISO2
BOO2
ISO3
BOO2
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108
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currencypxcode
XDR
Area km2
14 056 000
coastline
45389
rankincome
222
location
body of water between Europe, Asia, and North America, mostly north of the Arctic Circle
terrain
central surface covered by a perennial drifting polar icepack that averages about 3 meters in thickness, although pressure ridges may be three times that size; clockwise drift pattern in the Beaufort Gyral Stream, but nearly straight-line movement from the New Siberian Islands (Russia) to Denmark Strait (between Greenland and Iceland); the icepack is surrounded by open seas during the summer, but more than doubles in size during the winter and extends to the encircling landmasses; the ocean floor is about 50% continental shelf (highest percentage of any ocean) with the remainder a central basin interrupted by three submarine ridges (Alpha Cordillera, Nansen Cordillera, and Lomonosov Ridge)
naturalresources
sand and gravel aggregates, placer deposits, polym
cooking
includes Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Caribbean Sea, Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, part of the Drake Passage, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, almost all of the Scotia Sea, and other tributary water bodies
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