Australia

Six largest continent, its surface (including Tasmania and other coastal islands) is 7.7 million square kilometers (7.5 million square kilometers without islands) Origin of name: Australia refers to the continent comes from the term Terra Australis Incognita, which Europeans used until the mid-eighteenth century, is a Latin term and means: terra - earth australis - Southern, incognita - unknown.



                                      Cities in Australia

• S y d n e y  - Australia's biggest city, the state capital of New South Wales. Founded in 1788 Sydney is now Australia's leading financial center, commercial, transport and cultural center, a popular tourist center and the seat of the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican.

• M e l b o u r n e  - the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia, a population of 4 million people in the metropolitan area of ​​Melbourne (2009). In 1901-1927 the capital of Australia. Twice recognized by The Economist magazine's best city to live in the world (2002, 2004). Melbourne has the largest number of foreign students from such cities as London, New York and Paris. It is the largest concentration of expatriate Australia (16 439 people), because Poland has his own honorary consulate.

• A d e l a i d e  - a city in Australia and the state capital of South Australia, situated along the River Torrens, at the mouth of the Gulf of St. Vincent, north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, east of Adelaide lies the mountain of Mt Lofty Ranges. The fifth largest city in Australia.