QUIZ: how big is Australia? [Quick reply - no looking up...]
 

Recent discussions with some Americans revealed that they underestimate this little continent. I will reveal the answer tomorrow - so go ahead and post you guess...

:)

not big enough to find any decent rugby players there....

sorry, we're too busy training the best athletes in every other sport.

lol

pretty big
but nowhere close to Canada :2 cents:

I think it's just a little smaller than Canada

How is the colonial prison these days? Remember you still have to bow to the queen....:thumbsup

Her Magesty can suck my balls good sir.

Shame Diana is dead...she could have definitely sucked a sparkle into my eye!

Fergie would be a goer though, ugly girls always suck a mean cock. Call it natural selection....they do what they must to further their genes.

australia is australian for beer

hahah.

about the size of texas

so true

interesting - keep on guessing!

Would be more interesting if we'd know how many Australians participated...:Graucho

I chose the usa size without alaska or hawaii

About the size of the continental US. It's obviously nowhere near being close to the size of Canada. I can't imagine that it is about the same size as a state as they are relatively small.

I think the reason people seem to think it's so small is because of map projections making it look so much smaller, but that's just a distortion from taking a 3D globe and projecting it onto a 2D surface. Northern Canada "shrinks" as well on maps of this kind so it would stand to reason Australia would do the same.

meh the queen will go soon enough we had a referendom just before and we rejected it because it was a shitty deal, we will have another one soon enough, but honetsly who gives a flying fuck

we are not losing out by it one bit, it is providing links in the commonwalth heads of goernments meetings to differnt trade negotiations, its all +'s, which we need since we are in the middle of a shitwhoel they call the south pacific

Who cares...Fair fuckin dinkum..:glugglug

Canada is the biggest country on earth :) australia is 5th

I'd say tasmania is about the size of texas :1orglaugh

42567km2

My guess is you could be right... Haven't looked it up.

Here are the figures:
Texas 267,277 square miles
Alaska 615,230 square miles
Canada 3,849,676 sqm (or 9,970,610 sq kms)
Australia 2,966,133 sqm (or 7,682,292 sq kms)*)
USA incl. Alaska + Hawaii 3,618,770 sqm (or 9,372,571 sq kms)

[I bloody lost the figure for mainland US, and Google is no use at all at the moment - sorry]

*) not bad for size to share with only 20 million inhabitans (not counting the roos and snakes) compared to ~250 million in the US...

So how does central Europe compare?

Australia is 99% uninhabitable really

Sorry - forgot:
All of Europe is 3,618,770 sqmiles or 9,372,571 sq kilometers (roughly the size of Canada) - Germany alone is 356,958 sq kilometres = Central Europe would be roughly equal to AUS.

:cool-as-a

Australia Size: 18,945,430 people BIG. :D

We woudl belucky if most US peopel had even heardof Australia! I get soem really interesting questions on icq sometimes... and that is IF they have even heard of the country! It amazed me!

is it true that austrailia has a 2:1 girl to guy ratio or something like that?

Nope not really, but we have some of the best looking and outgoing girls in the world. The Gold Coast and Brisbane are a guy's dream.

Still not quite as nice as Canada from what i have been told though :)

I think The state of Western Australia has that sort of girl guy ratio..:)

:1orglaugh

http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/[email protected]?OpenDocument

SEX RATIO

In June 2002, the sex ratio (number of males per 100 females) for Western Australia was 100.1, with 964,300 males and 963,000 females. This compares with a sex ratio of 98.4 at the national level. Only the Northern Territory, with 109.9, had a higher sex ratio.

Males outnumbered females in all statistical divisions except Perth where there were 714,500 females and 699,200 males. The sex ratio ranged from 97.9 in Perth to 121.2 in the Pilbara. Within the Perth Statistical Division, the statistical local area of Peppermint Grove had the lowest sex ratio (72.6) and Perth - Inner had the highest (183.9). Outside the Perth Statistical Division, Wiluna had the highest sex ratio (223.4) and Albany - Central the lowest (91.9).

For people in the 15-64 "working age" group, the highest ratio of males to females was in statistical local areas dominated by the mining and pastoral industries, such as Yalgoo, Wiluna and Sandstone (all above 210). The lowest ratios for this age group occurred in Perth, in the established residential areas of Peppermint Grove (70.5) and Mosman Park (91.4), and in the south of the state in Albany - Central (93.7).

-Ben