Where is Australia?
Australia is a country in Oceania.
- Type
- Country
- Continent
- Oceania
- Region
- Australasia
- Land borders
- None. It shares no land border with another country.
- Area
- About 7.7 million km² on the game’s map
- Hemispheres
- Southern; Eastern
- Capital city
- 35.28° S, 149.13° E
About Australia
The answer is Australia, the sixth-largest country in the world and the flattest, driest inhabited continent. Its capital is Canberra, though Sydney and Melbourne are far larger, and about 95 percent of people live within 100 kilometres of the coast. Federated in 1901 from six British colonies, it hosts the Great Barrier Reef and a famously endemic wildlife including marsupials such as the koala and kangaroo.
Clues from Atlas Daily
Round 1 on 24 October 2026 (#53), hardest clue first:
- Atomic absorption spectroscopy and the first commercially successful polymer banknote were developed here.
- Its upper house seats 76 senators, twelve from each state and two from each mainland territory.
- A bush poem of 1895 called Waltzing Matilda is regarded as the unofficial national anthem.
- A football code born in Melbourne in the 1850s draws the most television viewers in most states.
Nearby places from past puzzles
- New Zealand 2,300 km away
- Papua New Guinea 2,900 km away
- Solomon Islands 3,100 km away
- Fiji 3,500 km away
- Tonga 3,800 km away
- Timor-Leste 3,800 km away
- Nauru 4,300 km away
- Kiribati 4,800 km away
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Sources: Wikipedia: Australia. Borders, area and map from Natural Earth 1:50m outlines, the same ones the game uses.