Australia
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- AU
- ISO alpha-3
- AUS
- ISO numeric
- 036
- FIPS 10-4
- AS
- GeoNames ID
- 2077456
Key facts
- Capital
- Canberra
- Area
- 7,686,850 km²
- Population
- 24,992,369
- Currency
- Dollar (AUD)
- Calling code
- +61
- Top-level domain
- .au
- Official languages
- en-AU
Continent
- Name
- Oceania
- Code
- OC
- In this dataset
- 28 countries
Location
- Latitude
- -25
- Longitude
- 135
- Min latitude
- -54.75042083099993
- Min longitude
- 112.91944420700008
- Max latitude
- -9.240166924999926
- Max longitude
- 159.1064559250001
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/AU?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 7686850,
"capital": "Canberra",
"continent_code": "OC",
"currency_code": "AUD",
"iso3_code": "AUS",
"iso_code": "AU",
"name": "Australia",
"population": 24992369
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/AU/regions/v1/cities?country=AU/v1/postal-codes?country=AU/v1/timezones?country=AU
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- أستراليا
- Chinese
- 澳大利亚
- English
- Australia
- French
- Australie
- German
- Australien
- Hindi
- ऑस्ट्रेलिया
- Italian
- Australia
- Japanese
- オーストラリア
- Korean
- 오스트레일리아
- Portuguese
- Austrália
- Russian
- Австралия
- Spanish
- Australia
- Total language variants
- 153
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Antarctica/Macquarie | UTC+11:00 | UTC+10:00 |
| Australia/Adelaide | UTC+10:30 | UTC+09:30 |
| Australia/Brisbane | UTC+10:00 | UTC+10:00 |
| Australia/Broken_Hill | UTC+10:30 | UTC+09:30 |
| Australia/Darwin | UTC+09:30 | UTC+09:30 |
| Australia/Eucla | UTC+08:48 | UTC+08:48 |
| Australia/Hobart | UTC+11:00 | UTC+10:00 |
| Australia/Lindeman | UTC+10:00 | UTC+10:00 |
| Australia/Lord_Howe | UTC+11:00 | UTC+10:30 |
| Australia/Melbourne | UTC+11:00 | UTC+10:00 |
| Australia/Perth | UTC+08:00 | UTC+08:00 |
| Australia/Sydney | UTC+11:00 | UTC+10:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ####
- Pattern
^(\d{4})$
First-level administrative regions
- State of New South Wales
- State of Victoria
- State of Queensland
- State of Western Australia
- State of South Australia
- State of Tasmania
- Australian Capital Territory
- Northern Territory
8 of 8 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Sydney | 5,638,830 |
| Melbourne | 5,435,590 |
| Brisbane | 2,780,063 |
| Perth | 2,384,371 |
| Adelaide | 1,469,163 |
| Gold Coast | 640,778 |
| Newcastle | 508,437 |
| Sunshine Coast | 398,840 |
| Canberra | 367,752 |
| Central Coast | 346,596 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 19,236
- First-level regions
- 8
- Postal codes
- 18,521
- Name languages
- 153
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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