Australia's territory covers an area of 7.692 million square kilometers, between the South Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, surrounded by oceans on all sides, and is the only country on the earth that occupies an entire continent, so Australia is also known as "Australia". It is sparsely populated, with about 26 million people living on more than 7 million territories, with an average of about 3.3 people per square kilometre, but more than 70% of Australia's land is arid or semi-arid, and most of the central region is desert and not suitable for human habitation. There are also 11 deserts that account for 20% of the country's land. The land suitable for livestock and farming is mainly distributed in the southeast coastal zone, only 260,000 square kilometers, so it is highly urbanized, and nearly half of the national settlements live in the two major cities of Sydney and Melbourne.
As the most economically developed country in the southern hemisphere and the 12th largest economy in the world, Australia's main economic source is mineral exports and agriculture and animal husbandry, the mainland is Australia's major patron, the country's various mineral exports are the world's largest countries, known as "sitting on a mining cart of the country". Australia is also the country in the world that has the largest number of sheep and exports wool, also known as the "country that rides on the back of sheep". It is also home to a variety of magical animals and is the World Museum of Living Fossils.
The country sitting on a minecart
Australia is rich in mineral resources, oil and gas, with at least 70 kinds of mineral resources. Among them, bauxite reserves are the world's first, accounting for 35% of the world's total reserves.
Bauxite
Australia is the world's largest producer of bauxite, alumina, diamonds, lead and tantalum, and the production of gold, iron ore, coal, lithium, manganese ore, nickel, silver, uranium, zinc, etc. is also among the top in the world.
Bituminous coal
Australia is also the world's largest exporter of bituminous coal, bauxite, lead, diamonds, zinc and concentrates, the second largest exporter of alumina, iron ore and uranium, and the third largest exporter of aluminium and gold.
iron ore
Proven mineral reserves with economic mining value: bauxite about 3.1 billion tons, iron ore 15.3 billion tons, bituminous coal 511 billion tons, lignite 411 billion tons, lead 17.2 million tons, nickel 9 million tons, silver 40,600 tons, tantalum 18,000 tons, zinc 34 million tons, uranium 610,000 tons, gold 4404 tons. Australia's crude oil reserves are 240 billion liters, natural gas reserves are 1.36 trillion cubic meters, and liquefied petroleum gas reserves are 174 billion liters. The forest cover covers 20% of the country, the natural forest area is about 155 million hectares (2/3 is eucalyptus trees), and the timber forest area is 1.22 million hectares.
koala
World Museum of Living Fossils
There are about 12,000 species of plants in Australia, of which 9,000 are not found in other countries; there are 650 species of birds, and 450 species are endemic to Australia. Marsupial mammals around the world, except in South America, are mostly distributed in Australia. Because of its stable environment, Australia is like a natural zoo, so it has unique ancient biological species preserved in the evolution of the earth, although they appear primitive, but they have become living fossils for human beings to study the evolutionary history of the earth.
The most concerned is the kangaroo, not only shaking hands, but also a lot of magical operations.
Show muscle kangaroos
Fighting kangaroos
A kangaroo that kidnaps a dog
Kangaroos that hit people