Basic Geography of Australia

Australia is an island, a country and a continent! Although it is the smallest continent, it is the sixth largest country in the world, after Russia, Canada, China, The United States of America and Brazil. Australia’s area is 7,686,850 square kilometres, however, the island takes up only 5% of the earth’s land area.

The population of Australia has doubled in just the last 50 years and is now 22, 421,417. This makes Australia’s population density 2.92 (per km²), which is fairly close in comparison to Canada’s population density which is 3.43 (per km²).

 Since Australia is an island, it is completely surrounded by water:  to the west, the Indian Ocean, and to the east, the Southern Pacific Ocean. The mainland of Australia is also surrounded by thousands of smaller islands. All of this land in Australia is divided into 6 states and 3 territories.

http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/ctypopls.htm

http://www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/dimensions/coastline-lengths.html

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