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Australia is the only country in the world that covers an entire continent, but amazingly it’s also an island! An island continent, fancy that!
Certainly the largest island in the world. It is rather large at 4,779,602 square miles
(7,692,024 km²). If you had to fly from Perth to Brisbane, it would take about 5 hours. This
makes it 22 times bigger than the UK. Wow!
More than 22 million people live in Australia, which actually isn’t that many when you
consider its size.
More than two thirds of the country is desert, called the ‘Outback’. There must be a serious amount of sand there…
