KEY FACTS:
Official Name: | Commonwealth of Australia |
Capital City: | Canberra |
Main Cities: | Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Darwin. |
Population: | 21,575,341 |
Currency: | Australian Dollar |
Sovereign: | Queen Elizabeth II (1952) |
Governor-General: | Peter Cosgrove (2014) |
Prime Minister: | Malcolm Turnbull (2015) |
Australia is the smallest continent in the world. It is also the 6th largest country in the world, after Russia, Canada, China, USA, and Brazil. There are over 20 million people living in Australia. Australia is divided into six states and two territories. The capital city is Canberra, which is in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).