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Interesting
Facts About Australia
- Australia is the only country that is also
a continent.
- Australia is south
of the equator and is often called Down Under.
- Australia is 2,966,153 square miles.
- There are about 18 million people living
in Australia.
- The language spoken in Australia is
English.
- The capital of Australia is
Canberra.
- Australia has 6 states.
- The longest and highest mountain chain is
in Australia and is called the Great Dividing Range.
- The Great Dividing Range goes across all
of the east coast and has its highest point at 7,310 feet at the
top of Mount Kosciusko.
SOURCE: "National Geographic
picture Atlas of Our World" National Geographic Society,
1993. p.
243
