Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is a highly developed country with a stable economy and high quality of life.
Australia has an area of 7,686,850 square kilometres (2,941,930 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country by area. It is classified as a large island with an area greater than 20,000 square kilometres (8,000 sq mi). The population of 25 million people is concentrated mainly in urban areas on the eastern seaboard. Australia’s capital is Canberra; other major cities include Sydney and Melbourne.
Australia’s climate varies significantly across its vast expanse due to its size and diversity. The climate ranges from arid in the far north-west corner to temperate near the southern coast to tropical in northern Queensland near Townsville
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The continent’s small size has helped protect its environment from human encroachment. Introduce some sub-topics about the subject.
There is much diversity throughout these areas, but the environmental leftovers of human invention like roads, fences and buildings are rare. With a warm subtropical or Mediterranean climate on the eastern coast, and cooler temperate in the west, most of this continent requires little heating or cooling systems to manage its climate.
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is the only country in the world that is an island continent.
Its nearest neighbours are Indonesia and Papua New Guinea to the north. The population is mostly concentrated between Sydney on the eastern coast in a small area, which encompasses 20% of the country’s total
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The continent of Australia is a country bound to the east coast of the world, occupying the majority of the Australian region. Spread over 5,300,000 km² and with a population of 24 million people, it is sometimes considered one of the biggest countries in the world.
Australia has topography diverse in mountains, coastal regions and ocean floor which alter what fauna lives there. It also has varying degrees of climate throughout its landscape as much rain can occur during wet season or as little as 15mm annually during dryer seasons. These differing climates make Australia environment friendly to plants like eucalyptus and koala trees which are found abundantly throughout coastlines. Australian ecosystems comprise more than 30 land bird species such as emu and cassowary to two-thirds of marsupial mammals that exist. The reason could be because it borders Asia sharply and shows many Asian influences in their culture like how rice was first produced on their land masses before spreading to China.
