Australia


Location: Oceania, continent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean

Population: 21,262,641 (July 2009 estimate)

Climate: Generally arid to semiarid; temperate in the south and east; tropical in the north

Languages: English (79.1%), Chinese (2.1%), Italian (1.9%), Other (11.1%), Unspecified (5.8%)

*Information provided by CIA World Factbook