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Australia Research Paper

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Australia is the smallest continent on Earth, but it is one of the largest countries on the Earth. Australia's capital is Canberra.

It is the flattest continent, and besides Antarctica it is the driest. Australia averages less than 20 inches of rain per year.

Some nicknames of Australia are: The oldest continent, the last of lands, and the last frontier.

Each state in Australia has its own government unlike most of the other countries in the world. The official language of Australia is English, but there are still many aboriginal languages that exist there. However, the aboriginal languages are spoken by very few people.

Nine tenths of Australia's population is of European ancestry. More than one fifth of Australia's population is foreign …show more content…

One fourth consider themselves Roman Catholic, one fifth say Angelican, and the other one fifth say their Protestant. Australia's rate of natural population increase is less than half the world average. The life expectancy in Australia is seventy-five for men and eighty for women. One fifth of the population of Australia is under 15. The majority of Australia's population is over sixty-five and increasing.

Australia in terms of production is the world's largest producer of sheep. Australia supplies the world with about one third of its wool. With wool being its top exported item, Australia does have other exported items. Australia exports things like: cereals, sugar, dairy products, and fruits. The leading crop in Australia is wheat. In Australia wheat ,being the leading crop, is grown in every state. Four fifths of the grain in Australia is sent to the Pacific region and Asia. The wheat that is grown in Australia is used mostly for noodles and bread.

Australia's second biggest crop export is sugarcane. Sugarcane farming used to be considered some of the hardest labor, until the industrial revolution and mechanization of sugar cane farms has made that old fact

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