To a visitor, the most striking thing about Australia is its sheer size. On a standard world map, it looks like a medium-sized island in the bottom right-hand corner, a long way from most places. In real life, of course, it is a proper continent with about the same land area as the United States minus Alaska, and much the same as the European Union—except that its population is only 19m, instead of America's 276m or the eu's 370m. And it really is a long way from most places.
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