Commonwealth of Australia

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since 1901 · up to 8,232 thousand km² · Oceania, Asia

Capital: Canberra (1927–…), Melbourne (1901–1927)

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has a land area of 7,688,287 km2, making it the sixth-largest country in the world, and is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, including large deserts centrally and tropical rainforests along the coast.

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Predecessors: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Events on its territory

• 1936 Death of the last thylacine
• 1973 Sydney Opera House opens
• 1992 The Mabo decision