Official status
No established national religion; the Commonwealth is constitutionally barred from establishing one.
Status reference
Practice Australia
No questions here on Borders, Civilizations, Historical flags, Turning points — nothing recorded for Australia.
Australia
AU / AUS -25.0°, 133.0°
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has a land area of 7,688,287 km2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world, and is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, including deserts in the interior and tropical rainforests along the coast.
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED
Australian
These are English demonyms for people from Australia. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.
Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS
Civilizations, flags & standards
Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.
A sourced civilization and flag trail has not been added for Australia yet. No ancient flag is inferred from the modern one.
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Turning points
A curated timeline is not available yet. Explore the country's history and the historical figures below.
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An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.
Religious affiliation
Largest religious group: Christianity
2021 censusChristianity43.9%
No religion38.9%
Islam3.2%
Hinduism2.7%
Selected categories. The largest religious group need not be a majority of the population.
Affiliation source & methodologyBEYOND THE MAP
Australia in the study desk
Places and things the general-knowledge library connects to Australia. Open one to follow its connections, then practise them with typed recall.
Geography 7
Food & drink 1
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Where it is
Languages
Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.
What it sells, and to whom
Every line is a thread: click a commodity or a partner to see who else trades in it.
Exports
Trades with
Farms and fisheries
- wheat
- sugarcane
- barley
- rapeseed
- milk
- cotton
Largest cities
| Sydney | 5,638,830 |
| Melbourne | 5,435,590 |
| Brisbane | 2,780,063 |
| Perth | 2,384,371 |
| Adelaide | 1,469,163 |
Wars and conflicts
Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.
War in Afghanistan (2001-2021)2001–2021
principal belligerent
World War II1939–1945
principal belligerent
World War I1914–1918
principal belligerent
Vietnam War1955–1975
principal belligerent
Korean War1950–1953
principal belligerent
Gulf War1990–1991
principal belligerent
Iraq War2003–2011
principal belligerent
Russian Civil War1917–1922
recorded participant
Second Boer War1899–1902
recorded participant
Anglo-Iraqi War1941
recorded participant
Malayan Emergency1948–1960
recorded participant
Indochina Wars1946–1989
recorded participant
Form of government
Federal parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy.
Money, belief and alliances
Money
Belongs to
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
United Nations
World Meteorological Organization
International Development Association
Antarctic Treaty System
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
International Energy Agency
ASEAN
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
Pacific Community
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Australia Group
Pacific Islands Forum
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Asian Development Bank
Climate and geography
generally arid to semiarid; temperate in south and east; tropical in north
Climate zone
Highest point
Landmarks and landscapes
Southern hemisphere.
In charge right now
Figures from its history
Edmund Barton
First prime minister, 1901
Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton was the first prime minister of Australia, serving from 1901 to 1903.
Ned Kelly
Bushranger and folk figure
Edward Kelly was an Australian bushranger, gang leader and police-murderer.
Gough Whitlam
Prime minister dismissed in 1975
Edward Gough Whitlam was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975.
Leaders before them
Checked facts
Most of this page is imported in bulk and carries no source of its own. These entries were checked by hand against the source named, and are reapplied after every dataset rebuild so a refetch cannot quietly put the old value back.
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Continents
— Seven-continent model. A country spanning two continents is filed under the one containing its capital; the other is accepted too.
The imported list was unordered and included overseas territory, so its first entry was not the continent the country is in.
Source · true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11
Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: famous, leaders, past leaders.