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Australia (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 25 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -25.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 135 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 135.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Isolation of the land has allowed for the evolution of unique flora and fauna; Indigenous Australians are believed to have arrived between 70,000 and 40,000 years ago; Australia was sighted by Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch in the 17th century; was claimed by Britain in 1771, used as penal colony; free British settlers arrived in the 19th century; official language is English. |
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| Australia (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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............ | established 19th cen. |
| Australia (Nauruan)
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| Australia (Indonesian)
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| Australia (Latin)
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| Australia (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Australia (Finnish)
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| Australia (Polish)
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| Australia (Cebuano)
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| Australia (Romanian)
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| Australia (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Australia (Basque)
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| Australia (Aragonese)
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| Australia (Asturian)
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| Australia (Galician)
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| Australia (Italian)
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| Australia (Sicilian)
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| Australia (Greenlandic)
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| Australia (Occitan)
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| Australia (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Australia (Romansh)
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| Australia (Kikuyu)
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| Australia (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Australia (North Ndebele)
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| Australia (Norwegian)
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| Australia (Pampanga)
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| Australia (Shona)
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| Australia (Swahili (generic))
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| Australia (Ido)
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| Australia (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Commonwealth of Australia (C,V,O)
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| Australia, Commonwealth of (C,V)
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| Australie (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| Australie (Scots)
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| Australië (C,O,Dutch-P,U,N)
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| Australië (Afrikaans)
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| Australië (Limburgan)
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| Australien (C,O,Danish)
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| Australien (Swedish)
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| Australien (German-P,U,N)
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| Australien (Low German)
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| Australien (Bavarian)
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| Australien (Luxembourgish)
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| Austrália (C,O,Portuguese-P,U,N)
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| Austrália (Slovak)
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| Austrália (Spanish,U,N)
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| Austrália (Tetum)
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| Austrália (Northern Sami)
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| Mancomunidad de Australia (C,V,Spanish,U,N)
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| Австралия (C,V,Kazakh)
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| Австралия (Bulgarian)
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| Австралия (Russian-P,U)
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| 澳大利亚 (C,V,Chinese, Wu)
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| 澳大利亚 (Chinese-P,U)
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| أسترا اًَ (C,V,Arabic-P,U)
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| AUS (C,O,ISO3L)
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| AU (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO036 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| AS (C,O,FIPS)
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| Australian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| אוסטרליה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Ahitereiria (C,U,Maori)
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| An Astráil (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| ʻAositelēlia (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Aostralia (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Aostralia (Breton)
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| Ástralía (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Austraalia (C,U,Estonian)
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| Austrailae (C,U,Scots)
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| Australi (C,U,Albanian)
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| Austràlia (C,U,Catalan)
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| Austràlia (Occitan)
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| Australia nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Australia (Úc) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Austrálie (C,U,Czech)
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| Austrālija (C,U,Latvian)
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| Australija (C,U,Croatian)
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| Australija (Bosnian)
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| Australija (Lithuanian)
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| Aŭstralio (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Australya (C,U,Tagalog)
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| Ausztrália (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Autereraria (C,U,Tahitian)
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| Avstralia (C,U,Faroese)
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| Avstralija (C,U,Slovene)
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| Avstraliya (C,U,Uzbek)
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| Avstraliya (Azerbaijani)
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| Avstrualii (C,U)
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| Avustralya (C,U,Turkish)
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| Awistralya (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Awstaraaliya (C,U,Somali)
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| Awstralia (C,U,Welsh)
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| Awstralja (C,U,Maltese)
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| Awstralska (C,U,Upper Sorbian)
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| Awstralya (C,U,Quechuan)
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| Awstralya (Cebuano)
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| Awusitureliya (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| i-Australia (C,U,Zulu)
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| I-Ostreliya (C,U,Zulu)
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| Orílẹ́ède Ástràlìá (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Ositáli (C,U,Lingala)
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| Ositali (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Ositaraliya (C,U,Rundi)
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| Ositirali (C,U,Bambara)
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| Ostaraalii (C,U,Fulah)
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| Ostareliya (C,U,Hausa)
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| Ostrali (C,U,Cornish)
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| Ostralïi, Sotralïi (C,U,Sangho)
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| Ostrelia (C,U,Tok Pisin (Neomelanesian))
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| Ò-tāi-lī-a (C,U,Maori)
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| Otereiriya (C,U,Nauruan)
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| sralygu'e (C,U)
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| Ɔstrelia (C,U,Akan)
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| Úc (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Αυστραλία (C,U,Greek)
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| Австралійський Союз (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Австрали (C,U,Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| 澳大利亞 (C,U,Chinese)
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| អូស្ត្រាលី (C,U,Khmer)
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| ཨོ་སེ་ཐེ་ལི་ཡ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| অস্ট্রেলিয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| 오스트레일리아 (C,U,Korean)
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| ऑस्ट्रेलिया (C,U,Marathi)
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| ऑस्ट्रेलिया (Hindi)
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| ஆஸ்திரேலியா (C,U,Tamil)
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| Австралія (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| Австралија (C,U,Macedonian)
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| ประเทศออสเตรเลีย (C,U,Thai)
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| ອົອດສະຕາລີ (C,U,Lao)
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| אױסטראַליע (C,U,Yiddish)
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| অস্ট্রেলিয়া (C,U,Bengali)
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| ئاۋستىرالىيە (C,U,Uyghur)
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| ܐܘܣܛܪܠܝܐ (C,U,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE))
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| ออสเตรเลีย (C,U,Thai)
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| Аустралија (C,U,Serbian)
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| آسټراليا (C,U,Pashto)
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| אויסטראליע (C,U,Yiddish)
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| オーストラリア (C,U,Japanese)
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| އޮސްޓަރުލިޔާ (C,U,Maldivian (Divehi))
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| أستراليا (C,U,Arabic)
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| استرالیا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| استراليا (C,U,Arabic)
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| ავსტრალია (C,U,Georgian)
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| ཨས་ཊེཡེ་ལི་ཡ (C,U,Dzongkha)
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| ئۆسترالیا (C,U,Central Kurdish)
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| Ավստրալիա (C,U,Armenian)
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| አውስትሬሊያ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| አውስትሬሊያ (Amharic)
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| ઑસ્ટ્રેલિયા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ఆస్ట్రేలియా (C,U,Telugu)
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| ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯ (C,U,Kannada)
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| 호주 (C,U,Korean)
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| ඕස්ට්රේලියාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| ဩစတြေးလျှား (C,U,Burmese)
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| ഓസ്ട്രേലിയ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| آسٹریلیا (C,U,Urdu)
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| अष्ट्रेलिया (C,U,Nepali)
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| ଅଷ୍ଟ୍ରେଲିଆ (C,U,Odia)
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| Аўстралія (C,U,Belarusian)
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| ཨསྟྲེ་ལི་ཡ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| New Holland (H,V)
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............ | named by Dutch, 17th century |
| New South Wales (H,V)
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............ | named by British, 17th century |
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Hierarchical Position: |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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British forces departed in 1870; has been formally independent since 1986 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| independent political entity (C) |
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| commonwealth (C) |
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confederated by British 1901 |
| inhabited region (C) |
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by aborigines since ca. 20,000 BC; by Europeans since 17th century |
| culture area (C) |
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| Australian Aboriginal (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Canberra .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Oceania, Australia, Australian Capital Territory) [7001867] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1931 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
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joined organization in 1945 |
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