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Australia has a population density of 3.4 persons per square kilometre of total land area, which makes it one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. The population is heavily concentrated on the east coast, and in particular in the south-eastern region between South East Queensland to the north-east and Adelaide to the south ...
Exclusive economic zone. 8,148,250 km 2 (3,146,060 sq mi) The geography of Australia encompasses a wide variety of biogeographic regions being the world's smallest continent, while comprising the territory of the sixth-largest country in the world. The population of Australia is concentrated along the eastern and south-eastern coasts.
Area quoted is maximum figure quoted as nearly 3 million acres [12] 11 De Grey Station: WA: 12,141 4,690 3,000,000: Cattle: 1869: Second largest station in WA. Area figure may be disputed, in 1886 the area quoted was "nearly three millions of acres", and would include the Pardoo outstation [13] 12 Lake Nash: NT: 12,000 4,630 2,970,000: Cattle ...
New South Wales. New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral and Tasman Seas to the east.
Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state (after Tasmania), with a land area of 227,444 km 2 (87,817 sq mi); the second-most-populated state (after New South Wales), with a population of over 6.9 million; [4] and the most densely populated state in Australia (30.6 per km 2). [10]
With a total land area of 8.56 million square kilometres (3,310,000 sq mi), the Australian continent is the smallest, lowest, flattest, and second-driest continent (after Antarctica) on Earth. [5] As the country of Australia is mostly on a single landmass, and comprises most of the continent, it is sometimes informally referred to as an island ...
Percentage figures for arable land, permanent crops land and other lands are all taken from the CIA World Factbook [1] as well as total land area figures [2] (Note: the total area of a country is defined as the sum of total land area and total water area together.) All other figures, including total cultivated land area, are calculated on the ...
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] It is sometimes described as an island, in which case it would be the largest island by area –more than three times the size of Greenland . [ 5 ]