Official Name : Commonwealth of Australia
Sovereign : Queen Elizabeth | |
Capital City : Canberra
Area : 7,682,300 sq. km
Largest City : Sydney
Main Language : English
Literacy Rate : 99%
Telephone : Australia's country code is 61.
Currency : Australian Dollar
National Holiday : Australian Day, January 26
Time Difference : Australia has three time zones
Longest Fence In The World : Dingo Fence
World's Largest Reef System : The Great Barrier Reef
Interesting and unknown facts about Australia :
- Australia is the smallest continent and the 6th largest country in the world.
- Australia is divided into six states and two territories.
- Canberra was chosen as the capital of Australia because they could not decided between Sydney and Melbourne.
- Australia has the world's 3rd largest ocean territory.
- Australia is sometime called the "Island Continent" because of it's size and isolation from rest of the world.
- It is anticipated that humans have lived in Australia for around 45000 years.
- Over 200 different languages and dialects are spoken in Australia.
- It has 16 world heritage sites.
- Australia was the second country that give the women voting power.
- The only place in the world where you can still find the lung fish.
- There are more then 40 millions on kangaroos in Australia which is more than the total population of Australia.
- Australia have more sheep than Kangaroos.
- No matter where you stand in Australia, you are never more than 1000 km away from a beach.
