The ocean is approximately 12,300 miles wide, from east to west, extending from Indonesia to the Colombian coast. It is 35,797 feet deep at the deepest point, which is at the Mariana Trench. The ocean's average depth is 14,040 feet.

Extending approximately 15,500 km (9,600 mi) from the Bering Sea in the Arctic to the northern extent of the circumpolar Southern Ocean at 60°S (older definitions extend it to Antarctica's Ross Sea), the Pacific reaches its greatest east–west width at about 5°N latitude, where it stretches approximately 19,800 km (12,300 mi) from Indonesia to the coast of Colombia—halfway around the world, and more than five times the diameter...