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Road Traffic:left side
Electricity:
Voltage:230V*
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:I,
Note:*Outlets typically controlled by adjacent
switch.
TV Systems:
System:PAL B / PAL G
DVD-Region: 4
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Oceania, continent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean
Area:
total: 7,686,850 sq km
land: 7,617,930 sq km
water: 68,920 sq km
Climate:
generally arid to semiarid; temperate in south and east; tropical in north
Terrain:
mostly low plateau with deserts; fertile plain in southeast
Economy
GDP: $640.1 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 2.5% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $31,900 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 2.7% (2005 est.)
Currency: Australian dollar (AUD)
Exchange rates:
Australian dollars per US dollar - 1.3095 (2005), 1.3598 (2004), 1.5419 (2003), 1.8406 (2002), 1.9334 (2001)
People
Population: 20,264,082 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: 0.85% (2006 est.)
Religions:
Catholic 26.4%, Anglican 20.5%, other Christian 20.5%, Buddhist 1.9%, Muslim 1.5%, other 1.2%, unspecified 12.7%, none 15.3% (2001 Census)
Languages:
English 79.1%, Chinese 2.1%, Italian 1.9%, other 11.1%, unspecified 5.8% (2001 Census)
Government
Capital:
name: Canberra
time difference: UTC+10 (15 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in October; ends last Sunday in March (ended first Sunday in April 2006)
note: Australia is divided into three time zones
Independence:
1 January 1901 (federation of UK colonies)
Note: Information on Australia was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Australia, please visit one of the links below.
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