The Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions.With a total area of about 106,400,000 square kilometres (41,100,000 sq mi), it covers approximately 22% percent of the Earth's surface and about twenty-six percent of its water surface area.

The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between the Americas to the west, and *Europe* and *Africa* to the east. As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean (which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the far-south.