Black-blue lakes, numerous rivers, majestic western mountains, rolling central plains, and forested eastern valleys


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Australia
What is the geography of Australia?
Australia is located in Oceania between the Indian and South Pacific Oceans. Although it is a large country, its topography is not too varied, and most of it consists of low desert plateau. The southeast, however, does have fertile plains. Australia's climate is mostly arid to semiarid, but the south and east are temperate and the north is tropical.
Although most of Australia is arid desert, it supports a wide range of habitats, thus making it incredibly biodiverse. Alpine forests, tropical rainforests, and a wide variety of plants and animals thrive there because of its geographic isolation from the rest of the world.
As such, 92% of its vascular plants, 87% of its mammals, 93% of its reptiles, 94% of its frogs, and 45% of its birds are endemic to Australia. It also has the greatest number of reptile species in the world as well as some of the most venomous snakes and other dangerous creatures like the crocodile.
Australia is most famous for its marsupial species, which include the kangaroo, koala, and wombat.
In its waters, around 89% of Australia's fish species both inland and offshore are restricted only to the country.
In addition, endangered coral reefs are common on Australia's coast—the most famous of these is the Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system and it stretches over an area of 133,000 square miles (344,400 square kilometers.)
It is made up of more than 3,000 individual reef systems and coral bays and supports more than 1,500 species of fish, 400 species of hard coral, "one-third of the world’s soft corals, 134 species of sharks and rays, six of the world’s seven species of threatened marine turtles, and more than 30 species of marine mammals," including endangered species, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

2. Show the borders of India from the map.


The map shows Australia, an island country in the southern hemisphere. The world's smallest continent borders the Timor Sea and the Arafura Sea in the north, the Coral Sea in the northeast, and the Tasman Sea in the southeast. The Indian Ocean lies to the west and the Southern Ocean to the south.

Australia has no land borders. The country shares maritime borders with East Timor, Indonesia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and the islands of New Caledonia (a special collectivity of France).

The country is divided into six states and two territories; the states are New South Wales (NSW), Queensland (QLD), South Australia (SA), Tasmania (TAS), Victoria (VIC) and Western Australia (WA), the territories are the Northern Territory (NT) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) with the nation's capital city Canberra.

3. What do you know about the way of life?
Australia's unique way of life is characterised by hard work, the fair go, free enterprise, small business, egalitarianism, freedom of speech, and respect for the traditions of Western Civilisation. It has created prosperity, opportunity, and freedom to an extent unknown anywhere else.
4. What is the populaton of the country?

  • The current population of Australia is 26,213,328 as of Friday, December 2, 2022, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.

  • Australia 2020 population is estimated at 25,499,884 people at mid year according to UN data.

  • Australia population is equivalent to 0.33% of the total world population.

  • Australia ranks number 55 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.

  • The population density in Australia is 3 per Km2 (9 people per mi2).

  • The total land area is 7,682,300 Km2 (2,966,151 sq. miles)


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