Map of Australia and the Oceanic
Overview
- Population: 42,859,835
- Land Area: 3.292 million square miles
- Largest Country (by land area): Australia
- Smallest Country (by land area): Nauru
- Largest Country (by population): Australia
- Major Biomes: Tropical, Savanna, Desert
- Longest River: Murray River
- Highest Mountain: Mount Kosciuszko or Puncak Jaya
- Largest Lake: Lake Eyre
- Largest Desert: Great Victoria Desert
- Languages: English, Chinese (Mandarin), Arabic, Chinese (Cantonese), and Vietnamese
- Native Languages: Indonesian, Filipino, Polynesian languages
- Inventions: Bionic ear
Fun facts
- Australia/Oceania is the smallest continent in the world by land area
- Australia is wider than the moon’s diameter
- Nauru is the only nation without official capital
- Uluru is the largest rock monolith in the world
- Puncak Jaya is the tallest island mountain in the world
- The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system
- Oceania is the only place in the world that is home to monotremes-mammals that lay eggs
Countries of the Oceanic