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This article provides information about the geography of Australia, including its climate, topographical features such as Ayers Rock and the Great Dividing Mountain Range, rivers like Darling/Murray River System and Darling Range, The Great Barrier Reef and more. It also mentions that Australia is divided into 6 states and 2 major mainland territor...
Australia is extremely dry, with about 35% of the country receiving very little rain. It has deserts and semi-arid land along the Tropic of Capricorn, Ayers Rock in Central Australia, Cape York Peninsula in Queensland as its northernmost point and Great Dividing Mountain Range from Melbourne to Cape York. The Darling/Murray River System flows south...
Commonwealth of Australia divided into 6 states and 2 major mainland territories (Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory) plus 7 external territories.
Smallest continent located between Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean in Southern hemisphere surrounded by bays, gulfs, seas, straits; south of Maritime Southeast Asia; north of Antactic; separated from Papua New Guinea by Coral Sea; Indonesia by Timor&Arafura seas; Coral Sea Islands by Great Barrier Reef; New Zealand by Tasman Sea; Antarctica by India...
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- 7,682,300.00 km 2
- 7,741,220.00 km 2
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- Asia, the Largest Continent. Asia is by far the largest continent in the world, spanning 17.2 million square miles (44.6 million square kilometers). Being the largest geographically also puts Asia at an advantage population-wise, as having 4.6 billion of the world's 7.7 billion-person population.
- Africa. Africa is No. 2 on both lists: population and size. In area, it spans 11.6 million square miles (30 million square kilometers). Its population is estimated at 1.3 billion.
- North America. North America is where area and population diverge in their rankings because this continent's population is not growing as fast as Asia's.
- South America. South America is the fourth-largest continent, spanning 6.9 million square miles (17.8 million square kilometers). It is fifth on the world population list, with 431 million people living there.
Asia is the world’s largest continent both by population and by land area. Comprising of 30% of the world’s land area, Asia borders the Pacific Ocean in the east, the Arctic Ocean in the north, the Indian Ocean in the south, and Europe to the west. Around 60% of the world’s population lives in Asia. Read more about Asia →
Sep 11, 2015 · "On the Mercator projection Greenland appears to be roughly the same size as Africa. In reality, Greenland is 2 million square kilometres and Africa is 30 million square kilometres, nearly 14 and ...
- Inga Ting
Australia is the only First World country on the Australia-New Guinea continent, although the economy of Australia is by far the largest and most dominant economy in the region and one of the largest in the world. Australia's per-capita GDP is higher than that of the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and France in terms of purchasing power parity.
Geography of Australia; Continent: Oceania (continent) Region: Oceania: Coordinates: Area: Ranked 6th • Total: 7,688,287 km 2 (2,968,464 sq mi) • Land: 98.21% • Water: 1.79%: Coastline: 59,681 km (37,084 mi) Borders: None: Highest point: Mount Kosciuszko 2,228 m (7,310 ft)
