Australia - Wikipedia Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates including deserts in the interior and tropical rainforests along the coast
Australia | History, Cities, Population, Capital, Map, Facts | Britannica Australia is the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere Its capital city is Canberra, and its most important economic and cultural centers are Sydney and Melbourne
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Australia Facts, Map, Population, GDP | The World Factbook Australia severed most constitutional links with the UK in 1942 but remained part of the British Commonwealth Australia’s post-war economy boomed and by the 1970s, racial policies that prevented most non-Whites from immigrating to Australia were removed, greatly increasing Asian immigration to the country
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Australia - A Country Profile - Destination Australia - Nations Online . . . 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)