Australia
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Australia
Landscape and population
The largaest island and the smallest continent in the world contains an immense variety of different landscapes. Big cities, rainforest, the sea and of course the outback. It is as big as the USA without Alaska, with only 17,1 million inhabitants, who come from more than 120 countries.They had brought so many different lifestyles, that Australia is one of the richest and most varied multicultural societies in the world. In the last 50 years the population has doubled and immigration has made about 40 % of the increase. Today two fifth of all Australians come from a foreign country or at least their ancestors.
The continent separates two great oceans the Pacific to the east and the Indian Ocean to the west. There are enormous areas which are arid or semi-dessert and mostly uninhabited.
The national currency is the australian dollar and English is the main language of Australia, but there is also the so-called Aussie-Slang. For example: Sheila means girlfriend, OZ means Australia or Australian and smoko means break...