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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, [17] is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. [18] Australia has a total area of 7,688,287 km 2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest country by area in Oceania.
Australia has the third-largest exclusive economic zone of 8,148,250 km 2 (3,146,060 sq mi). This EEZ does not include the Australian Antarctic Territory (an additional 5,896,500 km 2 (2,276,700 sq mi)). Australia has the largest area of ocean jurisdiction of any country on Earth. [5] It has no land borders.
The 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane left Tasmania off the map of Australia during the opening ceremony, as did the designs of the Australian Swim Team uniform for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. [3] The land mass covers 7,591,608 km 2 (2,931,136 sq mi), about 98.7% of the area of the country of Australia and 1.5% of Earth's surface. [4]
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. The entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which includes sovereign states and dependent territories.
Area [11] Nation(s) Subnational divisions Notes (km 2) (sq mi) — Smyley Island: 3,287: 1,269: Antarctica: Antarctic territorial claims by Chile and United Kingdom. It is 61 km (38 mi) long and between 13 and 34 km (8.1 and 21.1 mi) wide. [45] — Fletcher Island: 1,580: 610: Antarctica: Antarctic territorial claims by Australia. Island has a ...
Below is a list of countries and dependencies in Oceania by area. [1] Australia is the largest country in Oceania while Nauru is the smallest. Country / dependency %
The world's smallest continent, Australia is also the sixth-largest country by land area and sometimes considered the world's largest island. Australia has a mainland coastline of 32,994 kilometres (20,502 mi) [ 14 ] and claims an exclusive economic zone of about 8,200,000 square kilometres (3,200,000 sq mi).
At the 2021 census, 3.2% of the Australian population identified as being Indigenous — Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders. [ N 9 ] [ 56 ] In 2020, 7.5% of births were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons up from 5.7% in 2010; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fertility rates have stayed above replacement levels ...