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2 days ago · 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.
- People
Australia - Indigenous, Multicultural, Immigration: Today...
- Geologic History
Australia - Geologic History: The earliest known...
- Cultural Life
Australia - Culture, Diversity, Indigenous: Australia’s...
- Canberra
Canberra, federal capital of the Commonwealth of Australia....
- Australia Summary
Australia has long been inhabited by Aborigines, who began...
- Flag of Australia
National flag consisting of a dark blue field (background)...
- World War II
Australia - WWII, Pacific, Involvement: When war came again,...
- Climate
The weather found in a certain place over a long period of...
- Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Ecosystems
Australia - Mesozoic, Cenozoic, Ecosystems: The coal...
- Stratigraphy and Structure
Australia - Stratigraphy, Structure, Geology: This major...
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1 day ago · The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul (/ s ə ˈ h uː l /), Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, or Meganesia to distinguish it from the country of Australia, is located within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres.
5 days ago · The population of Australia is estimated to be 27,157,600 as of 24 April 2024. [1] Australia is the 56th [2] most populous country in the world and the most populous Oceanian country. Its population is concentrated mainly in urban areas, particularly on the Eastern, South Eastern and Southern seaboards, and is expected to exceed 30 million by 2029.
- 12.3 births/1,000 population
- 1.60% (2023 est.)
- 6.77 deaths/1,000 population
- 26,518,400 (as of June 2023)
1 day ago · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Brisbane, port, capital of Queensland, Australia, and the country’s third largest city. It lies astride the Brisbane River on the southern slopes of the Taylor Range, 12 miles (19 km) above the river’s mouth at Moreton Bay. The site, first explored in 1823 by John Oxley, was occupied in 1824 by a penal ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · Adelaide ( / ˈædɪleɪd / ⓘ AD-il-ayd, [8] [9] locally [ˈædɜlæɪ̯d]; Kaurna: Tarntanya, pronounced [ˈd̪̥aɳɖaɲa]) is the capital and largest city of South Australia, [10] and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre.
- 426/km² (1,100/sq mi)
- 28 December 1836
- 3,259.8 km² (1,258.6 sq mi)
- 1,418,455 (2022) (5th)
3 days ago · Survey of the history, society, and culture of the Australian Aboriginal peoples, who are one of the two distinct Indigenous cultural groups of Australia. It is generally held that they originally came from Asia via insular Southeast Asia and have been in Australia for at least 45,000–50,000 years.
4 days ago · Natural resources. alumina, coal, iron ore, copper, lithium, tin, gold, silver, uranium, nickel, tungsten, rare earth elements, mineral sands, lead, zinc, diamonds, opals, natural gas, petroleum note 1: Australia is the world's largest net exporter of coal accounting for 26.5% of global coal exports in 2021; coal is the country’s most abundant energy resource, and coal ranks as the second ...
