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- | | style="font-size: 11pt; background: #fcfcfc; text-align: center;" colspan=2 | '''Commonwealth of Australia'''
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- | | style="text-align: center;" width=50% | [[Image:Ausflag.png|125px]] || style="text-align: center;" width=50% | [[Image:AUSCOA.png|85px]]
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- | | style="border: 0px; text-align: center;" | <small>Flag</small> || style="border: 0px; text-align: center;" | <small>Coat of arms</small>
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- | | align=center colspan=2 style="padding: 0em 0em 0.5em 0em; text-align: center; background: #fcfcfc;" | '''Anthem'''<br>''God Save The Queen'' <small>(royal)</small><br>''Advance Australia Fair'' <small>(national)</small>
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- | | align=center colspan=2 style="padding: 0em 0em 0.5em 0em; text-align: center; background: #fcfcfc;" | [[Image:Ausmap.png|200-px|center]]
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- | |'''Capital''' <br><br>'''Largest city'''
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- | |Canberra<br>[http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?pagename=Australia¶ms=35_18_S_149_08_E_type:country(7741220) 35°18′S, 149°08′E]<br>Sydney
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- | |'''Official language(s)''' || English
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- | |'''Government'''<br><br> - Monarch<br> - Governor-General<br> - Prime Minister
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- | |Parliamentary democracy<br><small>(federal constitutional monarchy)</small><br>Queen Elizabeth II<br>Michael Jeffery<br>[[Chris Marshall]]
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- | |'''Establishment'''<br> - New South Wales founded<br> - Constitution<br> - Statute of Westminster<br> - Australia Act<br> - Union formed
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- | |<br>January 26, 1788<br>January 1, 1901<br>December 11, 1931<br>March 3, 1986<br>January 26, 1988
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- | |'''Area''' <br/> - Total<br><br/> - Water (%)
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- | |<br>8,491,014 km²<br>3,278,385 sq mi<br>0.9
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- | |'''Population''' <br/> - July 2007 est.<br/> - Density<br/>
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- | |<br>31,264,509<br>3.68 /km²<br>9.53 /sq mi
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- | |'''GDP''' (PPP) <br/> - Total<br/> - Per capita
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- | |2007 estimate<br>$1.074 trillion<br>$34,359
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- | |'''GDP''' (nominal) <br/> - Total<br/> - Per capita
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- | |2007 estimate<br>$1.330 trillion<br>$42,553
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- | |'''Gini''' || 35.2 (<span style="color:#fc0">medium</span>)
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- | |'''HDI''' || [[Image:Straight line steady.PNG|10px]] 0.962 (<span style="color:#090">high</span>)
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- | |'''Currency''' || Australian dollar (<code>AUD</code>)
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- | |'''Time zone''' <br> - Summer (DST)
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- | |(UTC +8 to +12)<br>(UTC +9 to +13)
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- | |'''Internet TLD''' || .au
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- | |'''Calling code''' || +61
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- | Australia is a federal constitutional monarchy consisting of the following states and territories.
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- | *States
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- | **New South Wales
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- | **Queensland
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- | **Victoria
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- | **Tasmania
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- | **South Australia
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- | **Western Australia
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- | **Papua New Guinea (statehood in 1975)
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- | **Fiji (statehood in 1988)
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- | **Solomon Islands (statehood in 1988)
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- | **New Zealand (statehood in 1988)
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- | *Internal Territories
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- | **Northern Territory
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- | **Australian Capital Territory
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- | **Jervis Bay Territory
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- | *External Territories
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- | **Ashmore and Cartier Islands
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- | **Australian Antarctic Territory
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- | **Norfolk Island
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- | **Christmas Island
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- | **Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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- | **Coral Sea Islands Territory
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- | **Heard and McDonald Islands
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- | [[Category:Australia| ]]
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- | [[Category:Historic nations]]
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PVGCoP Very informative article. Great.