Study sheet: Australia Geographic Map

📋 Course Outline

1. Australia Location and Scale
2. States Territories and Capitals

📖 1. Australia Location and Scale

★ Must-know

• The full name of the country is the Commonwealth of Australia, reflecting its history as a former British colony.

• Australia is 15,150 kilometers away from France.

• Australia is 14 times larger than France.

• Australia has 27 million inhabitants.

• Three countries around Australia are:

  • Indonesia
  • New Zealand
  • Papua New Guinea

• The capital of Indonesia is Jakarta, the capital of New Zealand is Wellington, and the capital of Papua New Guinea is Port Moresby.

Further detail

• The map identifies these oceans:
  • Indian Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Atlantic Ocean

💡 Memory Hook

Picture Australia between the Indian and Pacific oceans, far southeast of France.

📖 2. States Territories and Capitals

📝 Essential Points

• The state-capital pairs are:

  • New South Wales — Sydney
  • Victoria — Melbourne
  • Tasmania — Hobart
  • South Australia — Adelaide
  • Western Australia — Perth
  • Queensland — Brisbane

• Australia has two territories: the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.

• The capital of the Australian Capital Territory is Canberra, and the capital of the Northern Territory is Darwin.

💡 Memory Hook

States have numbered labels, whereas territories have lettered labels.

📊 Synthesis Tables

Australian Administrative Divisions

Type	Administrative divisions	Capitals
States	New South Wales; Victoria; Tasmania; South Australia; Western Australia; Queensland	Sydney; Melbourne; Hobart; Adelaide; Perth; Brisbane
Territories	Australian Capital Territory; Northern Territory	Canberra; Darwin