Australia

Australia Reto Stöckl / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Public domain

Country in Oceania

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has a land area of 7,688,287 km2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates including deserts in the interior and tropical rainforests along the coast.

Also known as...Commonwealth of Australia, Straya, Aussieland, Oz, Stralia, New Holland, New Hollandia, Nova Hollandia, Down Under, Stria, The Commonwealth of Australia, and 'Straya
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