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Location: Australia (Oceania, continent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean)
Capital City: Canberra
Population: 21.5 million
Government: Federal parliamentary democracy and a Commonwealth realm
Currency: Australian Dollar ($ AUD)
Main Language: English
Main Religions: Christianity, Buddhism and Islam
Other Facts:
Australia’s coastline stretches almost 50,000 kilometres and is linked by over 10,000 beaches, more than any other country in the world.
Australia is the sixth largest country in the world (and the only country that is also a continent) but has the lowest population density in the world (two people per square kilometre).
It is the only English-speaking country in the world that has made voting compulsory in federal and state elections.
The black box flight recorder for aircraft was invented in Australia in 1958 by the Aeronautical research scientist David Warren.
Shark Bay, a World Heritage site in Western Australia, is famous for the presence of stromatolites which are hard deposits formed by cyanobacteria, thought to be the first organisms to generate oxygen on earth.
