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Map is showing mainland Australia with the location of major cities, state capitals, and the borders of its administrative divisions. The former British colonies New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania became sovereign states within the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. Northern Territory became a self-governing territory in 1978 and a full state in 1995. Australia's major cities/towns by population are Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Gold Coast-Tweed Heads, Canberra-Queanbeyan, Newcastle, Central Coast, Wollongong, Sunshine Coast, Geelong, Townsville, Hobart, Cairns, Toowoomba, Darwin, and Alice Springs. Australia mainland state/territory capitals are: Brisbane (Queensland), Canberra (Australian Capital Territory), Darwin (Northern Territory), Hobart (Tasmania), Melbourne (Victoria), Perth (Western Australia), and Sydney (New South Wales). Capital city of Australia is Canberra. Click on the map to enlarge for a Political Map of Australia.  Administrative Map of Australia |
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| Australia's States and Territories New South Wales; state in southeastern Australia, Area: 800,642 sq km (compared, slightly bigger than Turkey) Population: 7.2 million Northern Territory; state in northern central Australia, Area: 1,349,129 sq km (compared, almost 4 times the size of Germany) Population: 230,000 Queensland; state in northeastern Australia, Area: 1,730,648 sq km (compared, more than 3 times the size of France) Population: 4.5 million South Australia; state in south central Australia Area: 983,482 sq km (compared, more than 3 times the size of Norway) Population: 1.5 million Tasmania; an Australian state in south east off of mainland Australia that consists of the mountainous island of Tasmania itself and several smaller islands; Tasmania is separated from Australia by the Bass Strait. Area: 68,401 sq km (compared, almost twice the size of Taiwan) Population: 500,000 Victoria; state in southeastern Australia, Area: 227,416 sq km (compared, more than 3 times the size of Panama) Population: 5.5 million Western Australia; state in western Australia, Area: 2,529,875 sq km (compared, almost the size of Argentina (2,780,400 sq km, the second largest country in South America)) Population: 2.3 million |
The external dependencies of Australia are: Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands are some small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean (Timor Sea) between Indonesia and Austrailia. Australian Antarctic Territory(AAT) Australia's Antarctic Territory, the largest territory of Antarctica, was claimed by the United Kingdom and placed under the authority of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1933, but most countries do not recognise territorial claims in Antarctica. (Population zero) Antarctic Treaty System (December 1, 1959) Article 4 "The treaty does not recognize, dispute, nor establish territorial sovereignty claims; no new claims shall be asserted while the treaty is in force". Christmas Island The island is a territory of Australia, it is located about 400 km (250 mi) south of the eastern tip of the Indonesian island of Java and about 1600 km (1000 mi) north west of the Australian continent (Population about 1400). Territory of Cocos Islands (Keeling Islands) Some islands in the middle of nowhere in the Indian Ocean between Australia and Sri Lanka (Population about 600). Coral Sea Islands Territory Some virtually uninhabited islands in the Coral Sea about 520 km (320 mi) east of Cairns, Queensland, Australia and 700 km (440 mi) south of Papua New Guinea. The only inhabited island is Willis Island, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology runs a manned weather monitoring station there. Territory of Heard and McDonald Islands An uninhabited archipelago of volcanic Antarctic islands, far far away, about 4,000 km (2,500 mi) southwest of Perth and about 1800 km (1100 mi) north of the Antarctic seaboard, (Population 0) Norfolk Island The self-governing territory is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. Capital town is Kingston. (Population about 2000). |
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