Australia - Wikipedia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands [N 6] It has a total area of 7,688,287 km 2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania
History, Cities, Population, Capital, Map, Facts - Britannica Australia, the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere Australia’s capital is Canberra, located in the southeast between the larger and more important economic and cultural centres of Sydney and Melbourne
Australia | Culture, Facts Travel | - CountryReports Australia is a large, comparatively dry, and sparsely inhabited continent, almost as large as the 48 contiguous U S states Australia, the only continent that consists of a single nation, is also the only inhabited continent that is isolated from all others (total coastline exceeds 22,000 miles)
Australia - Country Profile - Nations Online Project Australia is situated entirely in the southern hemisphere, between the Indian and the Pacific ocean, south of Maritime Southeast Asia and north of the Antarctic With an area of 7,617,930 km², Australia is almost (95%) as large as the continental USA (excluding Alaska)
Australia Maps Facts - World Atlas Australia is the smallest continent and the largest country in Oceania located between the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean in the Southern hemisphere Australia is geographically positioned both in the Southern and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth
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