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 | |  | | About Australia: |
 | Location: Oceania
Status: UN Country
Capital City: Canberra
Main Cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Darwin
Population: 18,090,000
Area: 7,713,360 km2
Currency: 1 Australian dollar = 100 cents
Languages: English, Aboriginal languages
Religions: Anglican, Roman Catholic, others |
| More about Australia: a country and the smallest continent, situated between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific: a former British colony, now an independent member of the Commonwealth, constitutional links with Britain formally abolished in 1986; consists chiefly of a low plateau, mostly arid in the west, with the basin of the Murray River and the Great Dividing Range in the east and the Great Barrier Reef off the NE coast. Official language: English. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: dollar. Capital: Canberra. Pop.: 19 913 000 (2004 est.). Area: 7 682 300 sq. km (2 966 150 sq. miles) |
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