• The continent lies entirely south of the equator and roughly two thirds of Australia is made up of flat desert.
• The majority of Australia’s population is concentrated on the southern and eastern coasts.
• Western Australia (the largest state in the country) is almost the same size as Europe
• The Great Victoria Desert is about one-and-a-half times the size of the United Kingdom.
• The Snowy Mountains, commonly referred to as the Australian Alps, receive more snowfall than the country of Switzerland.
• Australia is the driest inhabited continent. Its interior has one of the lowest rainfalls in the world and about three-quarters of the land is arid or semi arid.
• Over 200 different languages and dialects are spoken in Australia including 45 indigenous languages.

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