Australia

Australia

Australia ranks 22nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Czechia, Belgium, and Argentina. Memorable people born in present day Australia include Lawrence Bragg, Gough Whitlam, and Geoffrey Rush. Memorable people who died in Australia include Gough Whitlam, Truganini, and Jack Brabham. Australia has been the birth place of many athletes, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and athletes.

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. Australia has a total area of 7,688,287 km2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest country by area in Oceania. It is the world's oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with some of the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates including deserts in the interior and tropical rainforests along the coast. Read more on Wikipedia