Australia's biggest attraction is its natural beauty. The landscape varies from endless sun baked horizons to dense tropical rainforest to chilly southern beaches. Scattered along the coasts, its cities blend a European enthusiasm for art and food with a laid-back love of sport and the outdoors.

Visitors expecting to see an opera in Sydney one night and meet Crocodile Dundee the next will have to re-think their grasp of geography in this huge country. It is this sheer vastness that gives Australia - and its diverse population - much of its character.Australia is a country of dramatic landscapes, sun drenched beaches, coral reefs, tropical rain forests, deserts and bush land.
All this contrasts with its cosmopolitan cities and metropolitan skylines.

Australia is the world’s largest island continent and is approximately the size of mainland United States.
Australia is the sixth largest country in the world, it has a population of 17.5 million and covers 2.97 million square miles.

The capital is Canberra but you are more likely to be familiar with other major cities including Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane.

Australia's biggest attraction is its natural beauty. The landscape varies from endless sun-baked horizons to dense tropical rainforest to picturesque southern beaches.
Scattered along the coasts, its cities blend a European enthusiasm for art and food with a laid-back love of sport and the outdoors.