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Australia: map and facts
Australia is in Oceania. It has about 27.6 million people (2025), the 55th largest population. It covers 7,741,220 km², the 6th largest by area. That is about 3.6 people per km². Its highest point is Mount Kosciuszko, at 2,228 m. The longest river on its map is the Murray, 2,508 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 27,614,411 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 7,741,220 km² (2024, World Bank)
- Capital: Canberra
- Highest point: Mount Kosciuszko, 2,228 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 17.4% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of Australia, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Murray: 2,508 km
- Darling: 1,472 km
- Lachlan: 1,339 km
- Barwon: 889 km
- Mitchell: 750 km
- Fitzroy: 733 km
- Burdekin: 732 km
- Ord: 650 km
- Victoria: 560 km
- Fitzroy: 480 km
Also on the map: Burnett, Roper, Katherine, Daly, Blackwood, Mackenzie, Derwent, Weir, Macquarie and Tamar.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Mount Kosciuszko: 2,228 m (its highest point)
- Mount Bogong: 1,986 m
- Mount Buller: 1,805 m
- Mount Ossa: 1,617 m
- Mount Bartle Frere: 1,611 m
- Brumlow Top: 1,586 m
- Round Mountain: 1,586 m
- Mount Zeil: 1,531 m
Mountain ranges: Great Dividing Range, Australian Alps, Blue Mountains, Darling Range, Flinders Ranges, Gregory Range, Hamersley Range, MacDonnell Ranges and Selwyn Range.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Western Plateau, Great Artesian Basin, Arnhem Land, Cape York Peninsula, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Murray–Darling Basin, Nullarbor Plain, Gibson Desert, Kimberley Plateau, Riverina and Atherton Tableland.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): open shrubland 53.6%, grassland 26.1%, savanna 5.7%, farmland 3.9%, dense shrubland 3.6%, evergreen broadleaf forest 2.9%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 54.7%, plateaus 31.6%, hills 11.6%, mountains 2.1%.
Forests covered 17.4% of its land in 2024, down from 17.5% in 1990 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #1 in iron ore among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in lithium among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in zircon among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in bauxite among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in lead among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in gold among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in zinc among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in rare earths among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in manganese among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in titanium among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #5 in coal among the countries EIA lists (2024)
- World #5 in cobalt among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #6 in salt among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #7 in natural gas among the countries EIA lists (2024)
- World #7 in tin among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #7 in antimony among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #8 in copper among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #8 in nickel among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #8 in tungsten among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #9 in silver among the countries USGS lists (2025)
Neighbours
Australia has no land borders on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (2026-09-03). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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