Australia history facts

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has an area of 7,, square km. Canberra is its capital and largest city. English is its national language.

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Australian dollar AUD is its official currency. It has no land bordering countries. Interestingly, Australia is both a country and a continent. According to fastmetrics. In the area land ; Australia is 32 times greater than that of the U. K, almost twice than that of Europe, and almost equal to that of the United States of America.

According to USA Today , Australia has the sixth lowest population density in the world—two people per square kilometer.