(.. 7,686,850 square kilometers or square miles 2967.909000) Although Australia has a lot of land, has only six states - five of which are on the continent, it is an island. The five continental states of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. The island state of Tasmania. Australia also has two areas that have their executive branches of government. These are the Australian Capital Territory or the ACT and NorthernTerritory. There are also several islands off the coast of Australia, who depend on him. If Ashmore, Cartier, Christmas, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Coral Sea, Heard, McDonald Islands, Norfolk and Macquarie.
Australia is the smallest continent but the sixth largest country in the world. It's just a little lower than the 48 contiguous U.S. states. The terrain is mostly low plateau with deserts, but the country has several small mountain ranges, asgood.
History records that the first settlers in Australia were the aborigines who came from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years. The evidence of the first Europeans began to 17th century. The first territorial claim was made in 1770 by Captain James Cook, who held on behalf of the British Empire took over.
Between 18th and 19th century were established six colonies: New South Wales (1786), Tasmania (formerly Van Diemen's Land - 1825), Western Australia (1829), South Australia (1834), Victoria (1851) and Queensland (1859). In 1901, he joined the colonies and, as the countries of the Commonwealth of Australia federated. Its Constitution embraced the British parliamentary and U.S. federal traditions. The government is democratic, has chosen a prime minister, and recognizes the British monarch as sovereign. The monarch is represented by a Governor General who ordered first, the recommendation> Minister.
The Prime Minister appoints the members of Parliament to join the cabinet. Candidates are then oath before the Governor General to serve as ministers). The Assembly has a Senate (76 seats - 12 from each state, two for each region and a House of Representatives (150 seats - no less than five may have been representatives).
monetary system of Australia is the Australian dollar. Its weightand measures on the metric system.
Australia's farming includes sheep, cattle, poultry, wheat, barley, sugar cane and fruit. The industries are mining, food processing, chemicals, steel and industrial structures and transportation.
Australia has many natural resources such as oil and natural gas, diamonds, nickel, uranium, bauxite, coal, zinc, tin, iron, mineral sands, silver, lead and tungsten.
The country's exports of aluminum, coal,Or, meat, wool, iron ore, grain machinery and transportation equipment. Imports of petroleum products and crude petroleum, computers and office machines, telecommunication equipment and components, machinery and vehicles. Australia has as its main trade partners of China, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.
Australia has always been a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and is associated with Britain and the United States underother countries. E 'fought alongside the Allies in World War I (Great Britain) and the Second World War (both the UK and USA). The Prime Minister has sent troops to fight with its allies in Iraq in 2003. And in July 2003, Australian troops and negotiators successfully restored to the Solomon Islands, following the brutal civil war that caused widespread chaos and disorder in their wake.
Discussions countryEast Timor on a maritime boundary delimitation and distribution of undiscovered petroleum resources that is not covered by the 2002 Timor Sea Treaty, which established the Joint Petroleum Development Area. But the negotiations, and Australia is trying to reach a convenient way for all concerned.
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