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Quick Answer. The Pacific Ocean is the world's largest ocean. With an area of 63.8 million square miles, or 165.25 million square kilometers, it covers around a third of the Earth's total area, more than all the land in the world. Continue Reading.
In order of size, the largest of the oceans is the Pacific Ocean, followed by the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. To give an idea of the range of size, the Pacific Ocean extends for 60 million square miles, while the Arctic Ocean is a mere 5.4 million sq miles. The deepest point in the world's oceans is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan. There is some disagreement as to its precise depth, but it is somewhere close to 36,000 feet, or 6.8 miles. In fact the trench may be even deeper than this because only about 10% of it has been explored.