- Australia is the largest inhabited island.
- The nation's capital city is Canberra.
- Voting is compulsory in Australia.
- The name Australia is derived from the Latin australis, meaning "southern".
- The Great Barrier Reef of Australia is the longest coral reef in the world, measuring over 2,600 kilometres (1,600 mi).
- Around 24 percent of Australia’s residents were born overseas.
- Australia has a total coastline of 34,218 kilometres (21,262 mi).
- The population in Australia is 22.5 million, with approximately 60% concentrated in and around the mainland state capitals of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.
- Sydney’s Opera House was designed in 1957 by the Danish architect, Jorn Utzon.
- The country is the world's thirteenth largest economy.
- There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia and only around 20 million people.
- Around 6% of Australians work in tourism.
- Tasmania boasts of having the cleanest air in the world.
- Australia’s main natural hazards are tropical cyclones, drought and forest fires.
- Australia is the world’s largest exporter of wool, sheep, alumina, lead, diamonds, coal, refined zinc ores and mineral sands.
- Australia covers an area of 7,617,930 square km (2,941,299 sq mi)
- Aussie is a common, colloquial term for "Australian".
- One third of Australia’s land is desert.
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