oceania • AUS
Australia
Location marker · geographic overview
27° S / 133° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Canberra
- Population
- 27,194,286 2024
- Area
- 7,692,024 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- English
- Currency
- Australian dollar (AUD)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Australia
There is nowhere else quite like Australia, nicknamed the Land Down Under, the only country that has a whole continent to itself. With Indigenous cultures that go back over 65,000 years and truly global immigration in modern times, the country is famous for its natural wonders, wide open spaces, beaches, deserts, "the bush", and "the Outback".
Food & everyday culture
Generally speaking, table manners in Australia conform to European norms.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-26. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
A few more connections
- National anthem source-listed
- Advance Australia Fair Wikidata record ↗
Cited reference ↗
Wikidata, CC0 1.0. Source-matched, not independently certified. Observation year unavailable; retrieved 2026-09-27.
A little more to discover +
- National flower
- Golden wattle Source ↗
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Australia and New Zealand
- Calling code
- +61
- Internet domain
- .au
- Land border codes
- None listed
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the left side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .au. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.