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Australia, or colloquially, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is an Oceanian country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous more minute islands.

Australia's landmass of 7,617,930 square kilometres (2,941,300 sq mi) is on the Indo-Australian Plate. Circumvented by the Indian and Pacific oceans, it is disunited from Asia by the Arafura and Timor seas, with the Coral Sea lying off the Queensland coast, and the Tasman Sea lying between Australia and Incipient Zealand. The world's most minuscule continent and sixth most immensely colossal country by total area, Australia—owing to its size and isolation—is often dubbed the "island continent",[144] and is sometimes considered the world's most immensely colossal island. Australia has 34,218 kilometres (21,262 mi) of coastline (omitting all offshore islands), and claims an extensive Exclusive Economic Zone of 8,148,250 square kilometres (3,146,060 sq mi). This exclusive economic zone does not include the Australian Antarctic Territory. Apart from Macquarie Island, Australia lies between latitudes 9° and 44°S, and longitudes 112° and 154°E.

Australia's size gives it a wide variety of landscapes, with tropical rainforests in the north-east, mountain ranges in the south-east, south-west and east, and dry desert in the centre. It is the flattest continent, with the oldest and least fertile soils, desert or semi-arid land commonly kenned as the outback makes up by far the most astronomically immense portion of land. The driest inhabited continent, its annual rainfall averaged over continental area is less than 500 mm.The population density, 2.8 inhabitants per square kilometre, is among the lowest in the world,albeit an astronomically immense proportion of the population lives along the temperate south-eastern coastline.