The Indie Ocean is the third lairgest o the warld's oceanic diveesions, coverin approximately 20% o the watter on the Yird 's surface. ^[1] It is boondit bi Asie ?includin Indie , efter which the ocean is named ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} ?on the north, on the wast bi Africae , on the east bi Australia , an on the sooth bi the Soothren Ocean (or, dependin on defineetion, bi Antarctica .) ^[6]

As ane component o the Warld Ocean , the Indian Ocean is delineatit frae the Atlantic Ocean bi the 20° east meridian runnin sooth frae Cape Agulhas , an frae the Paceefic Ocean bi the meridian o 146°55' east. ^[7] The northrenmaist extent o the Indian Ocean is approximately 30° north in the Persie Gulf . The ocean is nearly 10,000 km (6,200 mi) wide at the soothren tips o Africae an Australie, an its aurie is 73,556,000 km² (28,350,000 mi²), ^[8] includin the Reid Sea an the Persie Gulf .

The ocean's volume is estimatit tae be 292,131,000 km³ (70,086,000 mi³). ^[9] Smaa islands dot the continental rims. Island naitions within the ocean are Madagascar (the warld's fowert lairgest island ), Comoros , Seychelles , Maldives , Mauritius , an Sri Lanka . The archipelago o Indonesie borders the ocean on the east.

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• NOAA In-situ Ocean Data Viewer Archived 2011-12-24 at the Wayback Machine Plot an dounload ocean observations
• The Indian Ocean in Warld History: Eddicational Wabsteid Interactive resoorce frae the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center
• The Regional Tuna Taggin Project-Indian Ocean wi details o the importance o Tuna in the Indian Ocean.. Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Detailed cairts o the Indian Ocean Archived 2011-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
• The Indian Ocean Trade: A Classroom Simulation Archived 2011-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
• CIA ? The Warld Factbook, Oceans: Indian Ocean Archived 2014-05-09 at the Wayback Machine