Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Ashmore and Cartier Is.
Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Oceania
ยท Australia and New Zealand
- ISO codes
- AU ยท ATC
- Density
- -
- Languages
- -
- Currencies
- -
- Dial code
- -
- Internet domain
- -
- Time zones
- 12
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 12.4330ยฐ S, 123.5860ยฐ E
- Demonym
- -
- UN region
- Australia and New Zealand
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- -
- Sovereignty
- Not independent ยท not a UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Ashmore and Cartier Is. stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Ten facts about Ashmore and Cartier Is.
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 12 time zones, from Antarctica/Macquarie to Australia/Sydney.
Sits in Oceania, in the Australia and New Zealand sub-region, and lies within the tropics, in the southern hemisphere.
Ashmore and Cartier Is. is a territory rather than a fully independent state.
Identified by the ISO codes AU and ATC, and by the flag ๐ฆ๐บ.
Its map label sits at 12.43ยฐ S, 123.59ยฐ E.
Formally known as Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands.
Classified by Natural Earth as a least developed region economy.
Falls into the low income income group.
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