Australia
Australia (officially Commonwealth of Australia) is a country in Australia and New Zealand, with its capital at Canberra, and is home to roughly 27.2M people.
English is the official language; the currency in circulation is Australian dollar ($); people from here are called Australian.
- »It is the only country that is also a continent, and the flattest and driest inhabited one.
- »The Great Barrier Reef is the largest structure built by living organisms on Earth, visible from orbit.
Australia straddles the Tropic of Capricorn.
Australia shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Timor-Leste (2,067 km), Papua New Guinea (2,356 km) and Solomon Islands (3,249 km), measured centre to centre.
Canberra exists because Sydney and Melbourne could not agree which should be capital. A site between them was chosen in 1908 and the city built from scratch to a plan by Walter and Marion Griffin, won in an international competition.
7,707,021 km² (2,975,696 sq mi), 6th largest of 198 countries and territories on file.
Population 27,194,286, 54th of 198 on file. That averages 3.5 per km² (9.1 per sq mi).
The Union Jack records the British origin of the colonies; the Commonwealth Star beneath it has seven points for the six states and the territories. The five stars on the fly are the Southern Cross.
Close enough to New Zealand's flag to cost you a guess.
New Zealand ▸