# Australia

Australia

sovereign state, federation, country| Part of | MIKTA, Australia and New Zealand, Australasia, Commonwealth of Nations  |
| Year dem found am | 1 January 1901  |
| Name | ꠅꠡ꠆ꠐꠦꠟꠤꠀ  |
| Official name | Commonwealth of Australia  |
| Native label | Australia  |
| Nickname | The Land Down Under, Oz, The Lucky Country, Straya  |
| Short name | AUS  |
| IPA transcription | əsˈtreɪljə  |
| Dey archive for | National Archives of Australia  |
| Dem name after | Terra Australis  |
| Official language | Australian English, Auslan  |
| Anthem | Advance Australia Fair  |
| Culture | culture of Australia  |
| Motto text | There's NOTHING like Australia  |
| Continent | Oceania  |
| Country | Australia  |
| Capital | Canberra  |
| Located in time zone | UTC+10:00  |
| Located in/on physical feature | Tasmania, mainland Australia  |
| Coordinate location | 25°0′0″S 133°0′0″E  |
| Coordinates of easternmost point | 28°38′15″S 153°38′14″E  |
| Coordinates of northernmost point | 10°41′14″S 142°31′53″E  |
| Coordinates of southernmost point | 43°38′40″S 146°49′30″E  |
| Coordinates of westernmost point | 26°9′5″S 113°9′18″E  |
| Highest point | Mawson Peak  |
| Lowest point | Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre  |
| Government ein basic form | representative democracy, constitutional monarchy, federation  |
| Office held by head of state | monarch of Australia  |
| State ein head | Charles III  |
| Office head of government hold | Prime Minister of Australia  |
| Government ein head | Anthony Albanese  |
| Has cabinet | Federal Executive Council (Australia)  |
| Executive body | Australian Government  |
| Legislative body | Parliament of Australia  |
| Highest judicial authority | High Court of Australia  |
| Central bank | Reserve Bank of Australia  |
| Currency | Australian dollar  |
| Foundational text | Constitution of Australia  |
| Driving side | left  |
| Electrical plug type | AS/NZS 3112  |
| Dey follow | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland  |
| Significant event | Statute of Westminster 1931  |
| Studied by | Australian studies  |
| Discoverer or inventor | Willem Janszoon  |
| Dema official website |   |
| Described at URL |    |
| External data available at URL |   |
| Hashtag | Australia, australia  |
| Top-level Internet domain | .au  |
| Main regulatory text | Constitution of Australia  |
| Flag | flag of Australia  |
| Coat of arms | coat of arms of Australia  |
| Has seal, badge, or sigil | Great Seal of Australia  |
| Official symbol | Acacia pycnantha, opal  |
| Geography of topic | Geography of Australia  |
| Get characteristic | free country  |
| History of topic | history of Australia  |
| List of monuments | Monuments of Australia  |
| Official religion | no value  |
| ‎most populous urban area | Sydney, Melbourne  |
| Railway traffic side | left  |
| Official color | green, gold  |
| Related category | Category:Australia-related lists  |
| Open data portal | data.gov.au  |
| Economy of topic | economy of Australia  |
| Demographics of topic | demographics of Australia  |
| Commonwealth Sport country code | AUS  |
| WordLift URL |   |
| ‎Lemmy instance URL |   |
| Mobile country code | 505  |
| Country calling code | +61  |
| Trunk prefix | 0  |
| Emergency phone number | 000  |
| GS1 country code | 930-939  |
| Vehicle registration plate code | AUS  |
| Maritime identification digits | 503  |
| Stack Exchange tag |   |
| Unicode character | 🇦🇺  |
| Category for honorary citizens of entity | Category:Honorary citizens of Australia  |
| Category for maps or plans | Category:Maps of Australia  |

**Australia**, officially de **Commonwealth of Australia**, be country wey dey comprise de mainland of de Australian continent, de island of Tasmania den chaw smaller islands. Australia get a total area of 7,688,287 km2 (2,968,464 sq mi), wey dey make am de sixth-largest country insyd de world den de largest insyd Oceania. Ebe de world ein oldest, flattest, den driest inhabited continent, plus sam of de least fertile soils. Ebe a megadiverse country, wey ein size dey give am a wide variety of landscapes den climates wey dey include deserts insyd de interior den tropical rainforests along de coast.

Australia be a middle power, wey e get de world ein thirteenth-highest military expenditure. Ebe a member of international groups wey dey include de United Nations; de G20; de OECD; de World Trade Organization; Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation; de Pacific Islands Forum; de Pacific Community; de Commonwealth of Nations; den de defence den security organisations ANZUS, AUKUS, den de Five Eyes. E sanso be a major non-NATO ally of de United States.

## Demographics

### Cities

Australia get five cities (wey dey include dema suburbs) wey get populations larger dan one million people. De majority of Australia ein population dey live near coastlines.

| Largest populated areas insyd Australia

2023 data from Australian Bureau of Statistics |
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| Rank | Name | State | Pop. | Rank | Name | State | Pop. |
| 1 | Sydney | NSW | 5,450,496 | 11 | Geelong | Vic | 302,046 |
| 2 | Melbourne | Vic | 5,207,145 | 12 | Hobart | Tas | 253,654 |
| 3 | Brisbane | Qld | 2,706,966 | 13 | Townsville | Qld | 186,734 |
| 4 | Perth | WA | 2,309,338 | 14 | Cairns | Qld | 160,933 |
| 5 | Adelaide | SA | 1,446,380 | 15 | Darwin | NT | 150,736 |
| 6 | Gold Coast–Tweed Heads | Qld/NSW | 735,213 | 16 | Toowoomba | Qld | 149,817 |
| 7 | Newcastle–Maitland | NSW | 526,515 | 17 | Ballarat | Vic | 116,390 |
| 8 | Canberra–Queanbeyan | ACT/NSW | 503,402 | 18 | Bendigo | Vic | 104,883 |
| 9 | Sunshine Coast | Qld | 407,859 | 19 | Albury-Wodonga | NSW/Vic | 100,095 |
| 10 | Wollongong | NSW | 313,745 | 20 | Launceston | Tas | 93,364 |

* Davison, Graeme; Hirst, John; Macintyre, Stuart (1998). *The Oxford Companion to Australian History*. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1955-3597-6.
* Flood, Josephine (2019). The Original Australians: The Story of the Aboriginal People (2nd ed.). Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin. ISBN 9781760527075.
* Jupp, James (2001). *The Australian people: an encyclopedia of the nation, its people, and their origins*. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-5218-0789-0.
* Jupp, James; Director Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies James Jupp (2001). *The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins*. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-5218-0789-0.
* Smith, Bernard; Smith, Terry (1991). *Australian painting 1788–1990*. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-1955-4901-0.
* Teo, Hsu-Ming; White, Richard (2003). *Cultural history in Australia*. University of New South Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-8684-0589-6.

## Read further

* Blainey, Geoffrey (2015). The Story of Australia's People, Volume 1: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia, Penguin Books Australia Ltd., Vic. ISBN 978-0-6700-7871-4
* Denoon, Donald, et al. (2000). *A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific*. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-17962-7.
* Goad, Philip and Julie Willis (eds.) (2011). *The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture*. Port Melbourne, Victoria: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-5218-8857-8.
* Hughes, Robert (1986). *The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding*. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-394-50668-5.
* Milne, John (1886). Colonial facts and fictions: Humorous sketches. United Kingdom: Chatto and Windus.
* Kemp, David (2018). *The Land of Dreams: How Australians Won Their Freedom, 1788–1860*. Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 978-0-5228-7334-4. OCLC 1088319758.
* Powell, J.M. (1988). *An Historical Geography of Modern Australia: The Restive Fringe*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-25619-3
* Robinson, G.M., Loughran, R.J., and Tranter, P.J. (2000). *Australia and New Zealand: Economy, Society and Environment*. London: Arnold; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-340-72033-2 paperback, ISBN 978-0-340-72032-5 hardback.

* Australia profile on *The World Factbook*
* Australia profile from BBC News
* Australia profile from the OECD
* Wikimedia Atlas of Australia
* Geographic data related to Australia at OpenStreetMap

**Government Parliament of Australia
* Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
* National Archives of Australia
* Australian Bureau of Statistics

**Travel Official website of Tourism Australia