Australia

sovereign state, federation, country
Part of	MIKTA, Australia and New Zealand, Australasia, Commonwealth of Nations
Year dem found am	1 January 1901
Name	ꠅꠡ꠆ꠐꠦꠟꠤꠀ
Official name	Commonwealth of Australia
Native label	Australia
Short name	AUS
IPA transcription	əsˈtreɪljə
Dey archive for	National Archives of Australia
Dem name after	Terra Australis
Official language	Australian English, Auslan
Anthem	Advance Australia Fair
Culture	culture of Australia
Motto text	There's NOTHING like Australia
Continent	Oceania
Country	Australia
Capital	Canberra
Located in time zone	UTC+10:00
Located in/on physical feature	Tasmania, mainland Australia
Coordinate location	25°0′0″S 133°0′0″E
Coordinates of easternmost point	28°38′15″S 153°38′14″E
Coordinates of northernmost point	10°41′14″S 142°31′53″E
Coordinates of southernmost point	43°38′40″S 146°49′30″E
Coordinates of westernmost point	26°9′5″S 113°9′18″E
Highest point	Mawson Peak
Lowest point	Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre
Government ein basic form	representative democracy, constitutional monarchy, federation
Office held by head of state	monarch of Australia
State ein head	Charles III
Office head of government hold	Prime Minister of Australia
Government ein head	Anthony Albanese
Has cabinet	Federal Executive Council (Australia)
Executive body	Australian Government
Legislative body	Parliament of Australia
Highest judicial authority	High Court of Australia
Central bank	Reserve Bank of Australia
Member of	UN
Currency	Australian dollar
Foundational text	Constitution of Australia
Driving side	left
Electrical plug type	AS/NZS 3112
Dey follow	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Significant event	Statute of Westminster 1931
Studied in	Australian studies
Discoverer or inventor	Willem Janszoon
Dema official website	https://www.australia.gov.au/
Described at URL	https://www.dfat.gov.au/about-australia
External data available at URL	https://data.gov.au/
Hashtag	Australia
Top-level Internet domain	.au
Main regulatory text	Constitution of Australia
Flag	flag of Australia
Coat of arms	coat of arms of Australia
Has seal, badge, or sigil	Great Seal of Australia
Official symbol	Acacia pycnantha, opal
Geography of topic	geography of Australia
Get characteristic	free country
History of topic	history of Australia
List of monuments	Monuments of Australia
Official religion	no value
Railway traffic side	left
Official color	green, gold
Related category	Category:Australia-related lists
Open data portal	data.gov.au
Economy of topic	economy of Australia
Demographics of topic	demographics of Australia
WordLift URL	https://data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/australia.html
Mobile country code	505
Country calling code	+61
Trunk prefix	0
Emergency phone number	000
GS1 country code	930-939
Licence plate code	AUS
Maritime identification digits	503
NCI Thesaurus ID	C16311
Stack Exchange tag	https://travel.stackexchange.com/tags/Australia
Unicode character	🇦🇺
Category for honorary citizens of entity	Category:Honorary citizens of Australia
Category for maps or plans	Category:Maps of Australia

Australia, officially de Commonwealth of Australia,^[1] be country wey dey comprise de mainland of de Australian continent, de island of Tasmania den chaw smaller islands. Australia get a total area of 7,688,287 km² (2,968,464 sq mi), wey dey make am de sixth-largest country insyd de world den de largest insyd Oceania. Ebe de world ein oldest,^[2] flattest,^[3] den driest inhabited continent,^[4]^[5] plus sam of de least fertile soils.^[6]^[7] Ebe a megadiverse country, wey ein size dey give am a wide variety of landscapes den climates wey dey include deserts insyd de interior den tropical rainforests along de coast.

Australia be a middle power, wey e get de world ein thirteenth-highest military expenditure. Ebe a member of international groups wey dey include de United Nations; de G20; de OECD; de World Trade Organization; Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation; de Pacific Islands Forum; de Pacific Community; de Commonwealth of Nations; den de defence den security organisations ANZUS, AUKUS, den de Five Eyes. E sanso be a major non-NATO ally of de United States.^[8]

Demographics

Cities

Australia get five cities (wey dey include dema suburbs) wey get populations larger dan one million people. De majority of Australia ein population dey live near coastlines.^[9]

Largest populated areas insyd Australia 2023 data from Australian Bureau of Statistics^[10]
Rank	Name	State	Pop.	Rank	Name	State	Pop.
1	Sydney	NSW	5,450,496	11	Geelong	Vic	302,046
2	Melbourne	Vic	5,207,145	12	Hobart	Tas	253,654
3	Brisbane	Qld	2,706,966	13	Townsville	Qld	186,734
4	Perth	WA	2,309,338	14	Cairns	Qld	160,933
5	Adelaide	SA	1,446,380	15	Darwin	NT	150,736
6	Gold Coast–Tweed Heads	Qld/NSW	735,213	16	Toowoomba	Qld	149,817
7	Newcastle–Maitland	NSW	526,515	17	Ballarat	Vic	116,390
8	Canberra–Queanbeyan	ACT/NSW	503,402	18	Bendigo	Vic	104,883
9	Sunshine Coast	Qld	407,859	19	Albury-Wodonga	NSW/Vic	100,095
10	Wollongong	NSW	313,745	20	Launceston	Tas	93,364

References

↑ Coaca430 S3, retrieved 8 February 2025
↑ Korsch RJ.; et al. (2011). "Australian island arcs through time: Geodynamic implications for the Archean and Proterozoic". Gondwana Research. 19 (3): 716–734. Bibcode:2011GondR..19..716K. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.11.018. ISSN 1342-937X.
↑ Macey, Richard (21 January 2005). "Map from above shows Australia is a very flat place". The Sydney Morning Herald. ISSN 0312-6315. OCLC 226369741. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
↑ "The Australian continent". australia.gov.au. Archived from the original on 13 March 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
↑ "Deserts". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. 15 May 2014. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
↑ Kelly, Karina (13 September 1995). "A Chat with Tim Flannery on Population Control". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 13 January 2010. Retrieved 23 April 2010. "Well, Australia has by far the world's least fertile soils".
↑ Grant, Cameron (August 2007). "Damaged Dirt" (PDF). The Advertiser. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2010. Australia has the oldest, most highly weathered soils on the planet.
↑ Rachman, Gideon (13 March 2023). "Aukus, the Anglosphere and the return of great power rivalry". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
↑ "The Beach". Australian Government: Culture Portal. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Commonwealth of Australia. 17 March 2008. Archived from the original on 26 February 2010.
↑ "Regional population, 2022-23 financial year". Australian Bureau of Statistics. 26 March 2024.

Bibliography

Davison, Graeme; Hirst, John; Macintyre, Stuart (1998). The Oxford Companion to Australian History. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1955-3597-6.
Flood, Josephine (2019). The Original Australians: The Story of the Aboriginal People (2nd ed.). Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin. ISBN 9781760527075.
Jupp, James (2001). The Australian people: an encyclopedia of the nation, its people, and their origins. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-5218-0789-0.
Jupp, James; Director Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies James Jupp (2001). The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-5218-0789-0.
Smith, Bernard; Smith, Terry (1991). Australian painting 1788–1990. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1955-4901-0.
Teo, Hsu-Ming; White, Richard (2003). Cultural history in Australia. University of New South Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-8684-0589-6.

Read further

Blainey, Geoffrey (2015). The Story of Australia's People, Volume 1: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia, Penguin Books Australia Ltd., Vic. ISBN 978-0-6700-7871-4
Denoon, Donald, et al. (2000). A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-17962-7.
Goad, Philip and Julie Willis (eds.) (2011). The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture. Port Melbourne, Victoria: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-5218-8857-8.
Hughes, Robert (1986). The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-394-50668-5.
Milne, John (1886). Colonial facts and fictions: Humorous sketches. United Kingdom: Chatto and Windus.
Kemp, David (2018). The Land of Dreams: How Australians Won Their Freedom, 1788–1860. Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 978-0-5228-7334-4. OCLC 1088319758.
Powell, J.M. (1988). An Historical Geography of Modern Australia: The Restive Fringe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-25619-3
Robinson, G.M., Loughran, R.J., and Tranter, P.J. (2000). Australia and New Zealand: Economy, Society and Environment. London: Arnold; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-340-72033-2 paperback, ISBN 978-0-340-72032-5 hardback.

External links

Australia profile on The World Factbook
Australia profile from BBC News
Australia profile from the OECD
Wikimedia Atlas of Australia
Geographic data related to Australia at OpenStreetMap

Government

Travel

Official website of Tourism Australia

[1] Coaca430 S3, retrieved 8 February 2025

[2] Korsch RJ.; et al. (2011). "Australian island arcs through time: Geodynamic implications for the Archean and Proterozoic". Gondwana Research. 19 (3): 716–734. Bibcode:2011GondR..19..716K. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.11.018. ISSN 1342-937X.

[3] Macey, Richard (21 January 2005). "Map from above shows Australia is a very flat place". The Sydney Morning Herald. ISSN 0312-6315. OCLC 226369741. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2010.

[4] "The Australian continent". australia.gov.au. Archived from the original on 13 March 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2018.

[5] "Deserts". Geoscience Australia. Australian Government. 15 May 2014. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2018.

[6] Kelly, Karina (13 September 1995). "A Chat with Tim Flannery on Population Control". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 13 January 2010. Retrieved 23 April 2010. "Well, Australia has by far the world's least fertile soils".

[7] Grant, Cameron (August 2007). "Damaged Dirt" (PDF). The Advertiser. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 23 April 2010. Australia has the oldest, most highly weathered soils on the planet.

[8] Rachman, Gideon (13 March 2023). "Aukus, the Anglosphere and the return of great power rivalry". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.

[9] "The Beach". Australian Government: Culture Portal. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Commonwealth of Australia. 17 March 2008. Archived from the original on 26 February 2010.

[10] "Regional population, 2022-23 financial year". Australian Bureau of Statistics. 26 March 2024.

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