Canberra ... or Australia?

Australia is surrounded (one could say "girt") by ocean on all sides.

Burley Griffin was an American architect who won an international competition to design Australia's new capital city.

"Australis" means southern in Latin.

Australia's area is approximately 7.69 million square kilometers (2.97 million square miles).

Kangaroos are very common in Canberra, as well as many other parts of Australia.

Marijuana has been decriminalised in the Australian Capital Territory, but nowhere else in Australia.

There is no high-speed (200 km+) rail network anywhere in Australia.

Canberra's population is around 450,000.

3.8% of Canberra's population were born in India, compared to 2.9% in England. For the whole of Australia, the statistics are reversed: 3.6% born in England, 2.6% born in India.

Canberra occasionally receives snowfall, but it is more common in the mountain ranges surrounding the city. Other parts of Australia, such as Victoria and Tasmania, also see snow in winter.

Canberra International Airport offers flights to Fiji, Bali and Doha. Other international airports in Australia include Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

Canberra has more than twice the population of Toowoomba (Queensland), which is the second-largest inland city.

All of Australia drives on the left.

K'gari (formerly known as Fraser Island), off the coast of Queensland, is the largest sand island in the world.

The Prime Minister has two official residences: The Lodge in Canberra and Kirribilli House in Sydney.