Australian_Demographics

Australian Demographics Australian Demographics The Commonwealth of Australia is located southeast of Asia; it is a self-governing member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The continent is surrounded by water with the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea, and the Torres Strait to the north; the Coral Sea and the Tasman Sea to the east; the Bass Strait and the Indian Ocean in the south; and the Indian Ocean on the west;. The land area of the Australia is around 7,614,500 sq km (2,939,974 sq mi), this makes Australia the smallest continent in the world, but it is also the sixth largest country. The capital of Australia is Canberra, and the largest city is Sydney; both are located in the southeast part of the continent. (MSN Learning & Research, 1993) Some 50,000 years ago the Aboriginal people were the first people to inhabit Australia when they migrated to the continent from Asia. The Aboriginal people were Australia’s only culture for some 49,000 years until around the 1700’s. When the first European settlement was established in 1788 at Port Jackson; this settlement was a British penal colony that later grew into the city of Sydney people, australia, culture, population, australia’s, education, about, years, make, change, research, msn, learning, australian, age, 1993, total, started, schools, one, first, cultural, country, countries, continent, aboriginal, world, trends, time, strait, sq, since, sea, over