Interesting Facts about Australia

The official name of Australia is Commonwealth of Australia.

Interesting Facts about Australia

Canberra was selected as the capital city because Sydney and Melbourne could not stop arguing which city should be the capital of Australia.

Interesting Facts about Australia

It is the 6th largest country in the world, occupying an entire continent of some 7.6 million square kilometers.

Interesting Facts about Australia

More than 80 percent of Australians live within 100 kilometers of the coast.

Interesting Facts about Australia

Over 200 different languages and dialects are spoken in Australia including 45 Indigenous languages. The most common non-English spoken languages are Italian, Greek, Cantonese, Arabic, Vietnamese and Mandarin.

Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1902.

Interesting Facts about Australia

Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest woman, earns $1 million every half hour, or $598 every second.

Interesting Facts about Australia

Australia’s first police force was made up of the most well-behaved convicts.

Australia has the highest electricity prices in the world.

Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia (mostly for meat production).

Per capita, Australians spend more money on gambling than any other nation.

Melbourne is considered the sport capital of the world, as it has more top level sport available for its citizens than anywhere else.

22 Interesting Facts about Australia

Australia is home to the longest fence in the world. It is 5,614 km long, and was originally built to keep dingoes away from fertile land.

22 Interesting Facts about Australia

If you visited one new beach in Australia every day, it would take over 27 years to see them all.

Before 1902, it was illegal to swim at the beach during the day.

Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim at Cheviot Beach, and was never seen again(1967).

A kangaroo is only one centimeter long when it is born.

The average Australians drinks 96 liters of beer per year.

63% of Australians are overweight.

Interesting Facts about Australia

If all the sails of the Opera House roof were combined, they would create a perfect sphere. The architect was inspired while eating an

orange.

Interesting Facts about Australia

Each year, Brisbane hosts the world championships of cockroach racing.

A gay bar in Melbourne won the right to ban women from the premises, because they made the men uncomfortable.

An Australian man once tried to sell New Zealand on eBay.

The male lyrebird, which is native to Australia, can mimic the calls of over 20 other birds. If that’s not impressive enough, he can also perfectly imitate the sound of a camera, chainsaw and car alarm.

Interesting Facts about Australia

The only place in the world where you can still find the lungfish which is a living fossil from the Triassic period (350 million years ago).

Interesting Facts about Australia

Australian man 'invented the selfie after drunken night out‘ in September 2002