Question: What does Australia rank, compared to other countries, when it comes to total area?
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 "For use of this rank in other countries, see admiral of the fleet" Admiral of the fleet (AF) is the highest rank in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), but is a ceremonial, not active or operational, rank.
It equates to the rank code O-11.
Equivalent ranks in the other services are field marshal and marshal of the Royal Australian Air Force.
Like those ranks, admiral of the fleet is a five-star rank.
The subordinate naval rank, and highest active rank in the RAN, is admiral.
This rank is only held when the Chief of the Defence Force is a naval officer.
The highest permanent rank in the RAN is vice admiral, held by the Chief of Navy. 
While Zipf's law works well in many cases, it tends to not fit the largest cities in many countries.
A 2002 study found that Zipf’s Law was rejected for 53 of 73 countries, far more than would be expected based on random chance.
The study also found that variations of the Pareto exponent are better explained by political variables than by economic geography variables like proxies for economies of scale or transportation costs.
A 2004 study showed that Zipf's law did not work well for the five largest cities in six countries.
In the richer countries, the distribution was flatter than predicted.
For instance, in the United States, although its largest city, New York City, has more than twice the population of second-place Los Angeles, the two cities' metropolitan areas (also the two largest in the country) are much closer in population.
In metropolitan-area population, New York City is only 1.3 times larger than Los Angeles.
In other countries, the largest city would dominate much more than expected.
For instance, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the capital, Kinshasa, is more than eight times larger than the second-largest city, Lubumbashi.
When considering the entire distribution of cities, including the smallest ones, the rank-size rule does not hold.
Instead, the distribution is log-normal.
This follows from Gibrat's law of proportionate growth.
Because exceptions are so easy to find, the function of the rule for analyzing cities today is to compare the city-systems in different countries.
The rank-size rule is a common standard by which urban primacy is established.
A distribution such as that in the United States or China does not exhibit a pattern of primacy, but countries with a dominant "primate city" clearly vary from the rank-size rule in the opposite manner.
Therefore, the rule helps to classify national (or regional) city-systems according to the degree of dominance exhibited by the largest city.
Countries with a primate city, for example, have typically had a colonial history that accounts for that city pattern.
If a normal city distribution pattern is expected to follow the rank-size rule (i.e.
if the rank-size principle correlates with central place theory), then it suggests that those countries or regions with distributions that do not follow the rule have experienced some conditions that have altered the normal distribution pattern.
For example - the presence of multiple regions within large nations such as China and the United States tends to favor a pattern in which more large cities appear than would be predicted by the rule.
By contrast, small countries that had been connected (e.g.
colonially/economically) to much larger areas will exhibit a distribution in which the largest city is much larger than would fit the rule, compared with the other cities--the excessive size of the city theoretically stems from its connection with a larger system rather than the natural hierarchy that central place theory would predict within that one country or region alone. 
 "See General for other countries which use this rank" General (abbreviated GEN) is the second highest rank, and the highest active rank, of the Australian Army and was created as a direct equivalent of the British military rank of general; it is also considered a four-star rank.
Prior to 1958, generals (and field marshals) were only appointed in exceptional circumstances.
In 1958, the position which is currently called Chief of the Defence Force was created, and since 1966, the rank of general has been held when an army officer is appointed to that position.
General is a higher rank than lieutenant general, but is lower than field marshal.
General is the equivalent of admiral in the Royal Australian Navy and air chief marshal in the Royal Australian Air Force.
A general's insignia is St Edward's Crown above a star of the Order of the Bath (or 'pip') above a crossed sword and baton, with the word 'Australia' at the bottom. 
The United States has lagged behind the social benefits that support working families when compared to other developed countries.
Of the twenty-one richest countries in the world, only the United States and Australia do not mandate paid parental leave, and among the industrialized Western nations only the United States does not mandate paid vacations.
Many solutions to the family-work balance problem have been observed in other countries and proposed in the U.S.
Solutions specific to the U.S. have also developed recently.
Recent U.S. policy has focused on "restoring marriage" rather than providing direct support to children. 
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