Country profile / AU
Australia
Commonwealth of Australia
Capital
Canberra
Region
Oceania
ISO
AU
Local time in Australia
live · IANALord Howe
Australia/Lord_Howe
Macquarie
Antarctica/Macquarie
Hobart
Australia/Hobart
Currie
Australia/Currie
Showing 4 of 13 time zones. The full identifier list appears in the reference ledger below.
Reference ledger
A sense of scale
area percentileLarger than 98% of places in this atlas.
At 7,692,024 km², Australia ranks 7 of 241 records by land area. This comparison uses the same bundled source for every profile, so the scale is internally consistent.
Field notes
2 notes“Australia is home to the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system.”
02Australia has over ten thousand beaches.
Use these identifiers accurately
The two-letter code AU is the compact ISO identifier used in addresses, locale selectors, and many data feeds. The dialing prefix +61 belongs at the start of an international phone number. Time zone names such as Australia/Lord_Howe should be preferred over a fixed UTC offset because they carry daylight-saving rules.
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