Fact file: Australia Tiger

 


Facts and figures The population of Australia is 25 million. There are many different types of people and religions, and nearly one quarter of Australians were born in other countries. The Aboriginal people are the only people who are native to the country.


Australia is the sixth largest country in the world and the main language is English. It has a land mass of nearly 7.7 million square kilometres. It is both a country and a continent. The currency is the Australian dollar, which is divided into 100 cents.


Geography


Australia has a varied landscape. Almost 20 per cent of Australia is desert. There it is hot and dry with hardly any rainfall. There are mountain ranges across the whole of the east coast, where the temperatures are sometimes below zero. There are also tropical rainforests in the north, where it's hot and humid. The amazing Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef and stretches for 2,000 km along the north-east coast. The total length of the Australian coastline is 35,877 km, which is very long! The width of Australia is impressive too. It takes five hours to fly from Brisbane to Perth, which is 3,614 km. If you drove for eight hours a day, it would take 5.5 days to do the same journey.


In the centre of Australia is the beautiful Uluru (known as Ayer's Rock outside Australia), a huge, mysterious sandstone rock formation that looks like it changes colour at different times of the day. It's an important place for the Aboriginal people of the area. The highest peak is Mount Kosciuszko in New South Wales, which reaches a height of 2,228 m. The Perth Canyon, which attracts exotic marine life and blue whales, can be found on the east coast, with a depth of 4,000 m.

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