Full Name: Commonwealth of Australia

Capital City: Canberra

Largest Cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane

Area: 7.7m km²

Population: 20,555,300
 

Time Zones:

Australian Eastern Standard Time (EST, sometimes also written as AEST) covers Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, and Tasmania. Central Standard Time (CST) is used in the Northern Territory and South Australia, and Western Standard Time (WST) is the standard in Western Australia. When it's noon in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, and Tasmania, it's 11:30am in South Australia and the Northern Territory, and 10am in Western Australia. The east coast of Australia is GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) plus 10 hours.

Language: English (official)

Religion: Christian 67.4%. Buddhist 1.9%, Muslim 1.5% Other 1.2%, Unspecified/None 28%

Electricity: 240 volts AC, 50 hertz. Sockets take two or three flat, not rounded, prongs

Country Dialing Code: 61