Australia - Location, size, and extent



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Lying southeast of Asia, between the Pacific and Indian oceans, Australia, the world's smallest continent, is almost completely surrounded by ocean expanses. Australia is slightly smaller than the United States, with a total area of 7,686,850 sq km (2,967,909 sq mi). The five mainland states are New South Wales, 801,600 sq km (309,500 sq mi); Queensland, 1,727,200 sq km (666,900 sq mi); South Australia, 984,000 sq km (379,900 sq mi); Victoria, 227,600 sq km (87,900 sq mi); and Western Australia, 2,525,500 sq km (975,100 sq mi). The island state of Tasmania has an area of 67,800 sq km (26,200 sq mi); the Northern Territory, 1,346,200 sq km (519,800 sq mi); and the Australian Capital Territory, 2,400 sq km (900 sq mi). The country, including Tasmania, extends about 4,000 km (2,500 mi) E W and 3,180 km (1,980 mi) N S .

Australia is bounded on the N by the Timor and Arafura seas, on the NE by the Coral Sea, on the E by the Pacific Ocean, on the SE by the Tasman Sea, and on the S and W by the Indian Ocean, with a total coastline of 25,760 km (16,007 mi). Neighboring areas include Irian Jaya (part of Indonesia) and Papua New Guinea to the north, New Zealand to the southeast, and Indonesia to the northwest.

Australia's capital city, Canberra, is located in the southeastern part of the country.

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Philippe
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May 9, 2007 @ 12:12 pm
Wow! it's a huge country.

I'd like to know a little bit more details about the country. is the majority of the land dweltable for human or just vastly desert? How is the weather? population? races?

thanks.
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Keston Superville
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Jun 12, 2007 @ 4:04 am
I would like to know if i can request a photo of a map of australia. Highlighting it states so i can use it in my power point presentation.

thank you in advance
keston Superville
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Bronwyn
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Aug 21, 2007 @ 7:07 am
Hey I live in Australia and the majority of the land is pretty mixed, the coast if obviously not very dry with rain every 4-5 days during spring, summer is awesome with barely any rain and is mainly spent at the beach. Winters have been increasingly colder, and autumn is like a traditional autumn.. but has more sun then rain/leaves.. as you go futher inland the rain is less frequent and the weather becomes more hot and arid. Weather is best along the coastline, which is the extreamly populated compared to mainland. races- there is the biggest variety of races ever, there's at least 10 of half one race or full blood of some other race, multiculturally we're rediculously diverse.
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May 6, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
hey....i wanna say that this is awsome information and i know where to go when i need info on any country....thanks alot :)
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Lillian
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Feb 1, 2010 @ 12:12 pm
This is awesome information thanx but i think there should be some Natural Geographical fetures of Australia but thank anyway
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Mar 28, 2010 @ 2:14 pm
Thank you so much. This helped me on a Socail Studies Project. I can't wait to get an 'A'!
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Oct 18, 2010 @ 4:16 pm
Thank you so much i am in year 4 and this helped alot with my project on monday
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Larissa
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Oct 21, 2010 @ 10:22 pm
wow that is a lot of numbers. this has given me a couple of good , cool facts ..
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Mar 14, 2011 @ 6:06 am
Wow, Brilliant. This is fantastic details.Most of Australian they dont know size of the Australia.Thank you so much. I Really appreciate this.
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Sydney
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Apr 16, 2011 @ 8:08 am
I'm doing a project on Australia and that really helps me with the location!
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May 24, 2011 @ 2:02 am
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May 25, 2011 @ 12:00 am
what is the square kilometres for sa it is because i am doing some reasherch on australia
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Nov 7, 2011 @ 10:22 pm
Hi im doing a essay on austrailia and i want to know a little more information on lacation can somebody help out
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Chansonita
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Feb 8, 2012 @ 1:01 am
If someone knows about it clearly should add more information...and thanks for someone who fill all this information..
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auzzie
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Feb 11, 2012 @ 2:02 am
hey australia is the best coz i live here but WA is the best state :D
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Feb 14, 2012 @ 9:21 pm
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sanjana
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Nov 15, 2012 @ 9:21 pm
pls will u display the latitude and longitude extent of australia
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Yvie
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Nov 3, 2013 @ 5:17 pm
I'm watching a documentary about the Koala of Australia and the scenery is beautiful. My grandson is only six years old yet he is always mentioning different countries and the one he mentions the most is australia because of the Koalas..I would love to someday visit Australia even though it is very far away from where I live..Thanks for the info. helped me understand a bit more about your country..
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Mar 11, 2014 @ 12:00 am
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Jun 7, 2014 @ 12:00 am
wow wonderful news about australia. i would like to visit there
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Dec 2, 2014 @ 5:17 pm
the best way to find out were Australia is located
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Jan 21, 2015 @ 12:12 pm
I just want to know where the location is on length and width of it
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May 11, 2015 @ 10:10 am
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Austria
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May 15, 2015 @ 2:14 pm
I am doing expo and my group choose Australia it is an amazing continent and country!
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jake watson
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Jan 7, 2019 @ 7:19 pm
thanks for the info doing a project on australia and really needed size and location.
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May 16, 2019 @ 10:10 am
well, this site is good and really helping me out with my Geo. project on Australia

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