The forward deployment of warships marks Washington's commitment to maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific region, the Navy ...

The escalating conflict in the Middle East is the latest global situation to punch holes through air traffic flows, a ...

Open a book of maps and look for the "Indo-Pacific" region—it likely won't be there. Yet the Indo-Pacific is now central to how many countries think about strategy and security. It describes a ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps aircraft carrier movements in the strategic Indo-Pacific region. As of December 13, the locations of 11 vessels were publicly available via military disclosures or ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has maps of major world forests. ... Asia and the Pacific region accounts for 18.8 percent of global forests.

As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet. Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins.

The U.S. has the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet with 11 in service, including six based on the West Coast. China ranks second with three aircraft carriers.

A brilliant map showed just how big the Pacific Ocean is. The Ocean, which is around 32 percent of the planet’s total surface area and 46 percent of its water surface, covers 165.25 million ...

Pacific Islands the world’s most aid-reliant region, report finds. Australia is the largest donor to the islands, providing about 40 percent of total development finance from 2008-2021.