Is Australia actually wider than the moon?

Is Australia actually wider than the moon?

“Although the Moon is about as wide as Australia, it is actually much bigger when you think in terms of surface area. It turns out the surface of the Moon is much larger than that of Australia. The land area of Australia is some 7.69 million square kilometers.”

How wide is Australia?

“The Australian mainland extends from west to east for nearly 2,500 miles (4,000 km) and from Cape York Peninsula in the northeast to Wilsons Promontory in the southeast for nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 km).”

Is Australia bigger than India in area?

“It has an area of nearly 7.7 million square kilometres and is the sixth largest nation on earth. Australia is 20.6 times bigger than Japan, 14 times bigger than France and 2.4 times bigger than India.”

Is Australia bigger than Europe?

“It’s smaller than Asia, smaller than Africa, smaller than either North or South America, and just a little bigger than Australia.”

Why is the sun so big in Australia?

“The elliptical orbit of the Earth places the Southern Hemisphere closer to the sun during its summer months than the Northern Hemisphere during its summer. This means that the summer sun in Australia is 7 to 10 percent stronger than similar latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.”

What country is same size as Moon?

“But that’s just one way of looking at things. Although the Moon is about as wide as Australia, it is actually much bigger when you think in terms of surface area. It turns out the surface of the Moon is much larger than that of Australia.”

Is Australia larger than Russia?

“Australia is the planet’s sixth largest country after Russia, Canada, China, the USA, and Brazil. At 7 692 024 km2, it accounts for just five percent of the world’s land area of 149 450 000 km2, and although it is the smallest continental land mass, it is the world’s largest island.”

Is Australia bigger than the Earth?

“Australia is the largest island or the smallest continental land mass with only 5% of total world’s land area….Comparing the Size of Countries.”

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Country	Australia
Area in km2	76,86,850
Arable Land	6.15%
Number of People per km2	2.66
Population	204,34,176

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What are the 7 countries in Australia?

“Australia/Oceania”

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#	Country	Population (2020)
1	Australia	25,499,884
2	Papua New Guinea	8,947,024
3	New Zealand	4,822,233
4	Fiji	896,445

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Is India richer than Australia?

“Australia has a GDP per capita of $48,700 as of 2020, while in India, the GDP per capita is $6,100 as of 2020.”

Is Australia bigger than Pakistan?

“Australia is about 10 times bigger than Pakistan. Pakistan is approximately 796,095 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 872% larger than Pakistan.”

Which are the 7 largest countries in the world?

“Here is a detail of the Top 7 Largest Countries on Earth by area:”

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1. Russia. In terms of land area, Russia is the largest country in the world. …
2. Canada: Canada is the world’s second-largest country. …
3. The United States. The United States of America is the third-largest country by size in the world. …
4. China. …
5. Brazil. …
6. Australia. …
7. India.

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Is Australia bigger than Asia?

“There is great variation in the sizes of continents; Asia is more than five times as large as Australia. The largest island in the world, Greenland, is only about one-fourth the size of Australia.”

Is Germany or Australia bigger?

“Australia is MUCH bigger than Germany Australia stretches across nearly 7.7 million square kilometres, making it the sixth biggest country in the world. Germany, in comparison, takes up only 350,000 square kilometres – and can thus fit into Australia 22 times.”

Is UK bigger than Australia?

“AUSTRALIA IS ABOUT 32 TIMES BIGGER THAN U.K.”

Do Australians see the moon differently?

“One thing’s for sure, it won’t be the same man they see in the northern hemisphere. In Australia, the Moon is “upside down” from the point of view of northern hemisphere viewers. We see a jolly man’s face in the full moon, while their guy looks a bit alarmed.”

Why does the moon look different in Australia?

“The Moon orbits near the equator of the Earth. People in different hemispheres see the moon in a slightly different way. In the Southern Hemisphere, people see the moon ‘upside down’ so the side which is shining (sunlit) seems the opposite from the Northern Hemisphere.”

Why does the moon look so big in Australia?

“Yep folks, it’s an optical illusion. Apparently, it happens because our minds think the horizon looks further away than the sky straight above us (the zenith). So it compensates, as so many of us are wont to do, by making the moon look bigger when it’s “further away”.”

Do we see the same side of the moon as Australia?

“Why does the Moon look upside down from Australia? It’s because we’re on a spherical planet. If I stand at the North Pole, with my head “up,” and have a friend stand on the South Pole, with their head “up,” relative to the ground, our two heads are pointed in exactly opposite directions.”