The only country that is also a continent, and home to more species that can kill you than anywhere else on Earth.
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Australia
Commonwealth of Australia
Oceania
ยท Australia and New Zealand
0Population
7.69Mkmยฒ of land
$55.06KGDP / person
CanberraCapital
- ISO codes
- AU ยท AUS
- Density
- 3 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- Australian dollar (AUD)
- Dial code
- +61
- Internet domain
- .au
- Time zones
- 12
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 24.1300ยฐ S, 134.0500ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Australian
- UN region
- Australia and New Zealand
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $1.4T
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Australia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
55th
of 242 ยท 0.33% of world population
Land area
7th
of 242 ยท 5.13% of world land
GDP per person
21st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
225th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Australia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 25,364,307 people, the 55th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.33 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 7,692,024 kmยฒ, making it the 7th largest country here - about 7.7 times the size of Egypt.
Population density is about 3 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Canberra, at 35.28ยฐ S, 149.13ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 327,700.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 12 time zones, from Antarctica/Macquarie to Australia/Sydney.
The currency is the Australian dollar (AUD, symbol $).
The official language is English.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Antarctica/Macquarie
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Australia/Adelaide
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Australia/Brisbane
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Australia/Broken Hill
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Australia/Darwin
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Australia/Eucla
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Australia/Hobart
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Australia/Lindeman
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Australia/Lord Howe
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Australia/Melbourne
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Australia/Perth
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Australia/Sydney
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Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Sydney
New South Wales
33.9181ยฐ S, 151.1832ยฐ E
4.63M
2
Melbourne
Victoria
37.8181ยฐ S, 144.9731ยฐ E
4.17M
3
Brisbane
Queensland
27.4531ยฐ S, 153.0331ยฐ E
1.86M
4
Perth
Western Australia
31.9531ยฐ S, 115.8381ยฐ E
1.53M
5
Adelaide
South Australia
34.9330ยฐ S, 138.5981ยฐ E
1.15M
6
Newcastle
New South Wales
32.8453ยฐ S, 151.8150ยฐ E
540.8K
7
Gold Coast
Queensland
28.0815ยฐ S, 153.4482ยฐ E
527.66K
8
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Canberra
Australian Capital Territory
35.2830ยฐ S, 149.1290ยฐ E
327.7K
9
Cairns
Queensland
16.8878ยฐ S, 145.7633ยฐ E
154.23K
10
Townsville
Queensland
19.2500ยฐ S, 146.7700ยฐ E
138.95K
๐ Peaks
Mount Kosciuszko
2,228 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Great Barrier Reef
Nature
The largest living structure on Earth - 2,300 km of coral, visible from orbit and built by animals a few millimetres across.