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Australia's size gives it a wide variety of landscapes, with tropical rainforests in the north-east, mountain ranges in the south-east, south-west and east, and desert in the centre. [174] The desert or semi-arid land commonly known as the outback makes up by far the largest portion of land. [175]
Australia has the third-largest exclusive economic zone of 8,148,250 km 2 (3,146,060 sq mi). This EEZ does not include the Australian Antarctic Territory (an additional 5,896,500 km 2 (2,276,700 sq mi)). Australia has the largest area of ocean jurisdiction of any country on Earth. [5] It has no land borders.
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]
This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories. All 193 member states of the United Nations plus the two observer states are given a rank ...
Australia is the largest country in Oceania while Nauru is the smallest. Country / dependency % total Oceania area in km 2 (mi 2) 1
Australia is the only First World country on the Australia-New Guinea continent, although the economy of Australia is by far the largest and most dominant economy in the region and one of the largest in the world. Australia's per-capita GDP is higher than that of the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and France in terms of purchasing power ...
Australia: 7,591,608 [Note 12] 2,931,136 Australia Mainland Australia is more than three times the size of Greenland, the largest island. [9] Australia is sometimes dubbed "The Island Continent" or "Earth's largest island, but its smallest continent". [10]
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. ... Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a land area of 2,527,013 square kilometres ...