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Commonwealth of Australia | |
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| Capital | Canberra 35°18′29″S 149°07′28″E / 35.30806°S 149.12444°E |
| Official languages | None at federal level |
| Common languages | English[N 2] |
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| Government | Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
• Monarch | Charles III |
| David Hurley | |
| Anthony Albanese | |
| Richard Marles | |
| Susan Kiefel | |
| Slade Brockman | |
| Andrew Wallace | |
| Legislature | Parliament |
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| House of Representatives | |
| Independence from the United Kingdom | |
| 1 January 1901 | |
| 9 October 1942 (with effect from 3 September 1939) | |
| 3 March 1986 | |
| Area | |
• Total | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (6th) |
• Water (%) | 0.76 |
| Population | |
• 2024 estimate | 27,446,400 (51st) |
• 2016 census | 23,401,892 |
• Density | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (236th) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2017 estimate |
• Total | US$1.24 trillion (19th) |
• Per capita | US$49,882 (17th) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2017 estimate |
• Total | US$1.39 trillion (13th) |
• Per capita | US$56,135 (10th) |
| Gini (2012) | 33.6 medium · 19th |
| HDI (2015) |  0.939very high · 2nd |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 to +10.5 (various[N 3]) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+8 to +11.5 (various[N 3]) |
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy |
| Driving side | left |
| Calling code | +61 |
| ISO 3166 code | AU |
| Internet TLD | .au |
Australia (officially called the Commonwealth of Australia) is a country and sovereign state located in the southern hemisphere, in Oceania. Its capital city is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. Mostly it is a desert country.
Australia is the sixth biggest country in the world by land area, and is part of the Oceanic and Australasian regions. Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and other islands on the Australian tectonic plate are together called Australasia, which is one of the world's great ecozones. When other Pacific islands are included with Australasia, it is called Oceania.
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