{"id":517,"date":"2010-07-04T14:06:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T14:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/?p=517"},"modified":"2010-07-04T14:06:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T14:06:20","slug":"australian-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/australian-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is the world&#8217;s smallest continent, covering 7,741,220 km\u00b2.\u00a0Australia the 6th largest country in the world. It is the largest country\u00a0in the Southern Hemisphere but is fairly sparsly populated with only 21 million\u00a0people living in the 6 states, 2 major territories and some smaller territories\u00a0and islands. The name <strong>Australia<\/strong> comes from the Latin <em>Australis<\/em>,\u00a0meaning &#8220;Southern.&#8221; The capital is Canberra.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"8\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><strong>States<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Code<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Capital<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Population<\/strong><\/th>\n<th><strong>Size km\u00b2<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Australian Capital*<\/p>\n<p>Northern Territory*<\/p>\n<p>New South Wales<\/p>\n<p>Queensland<\/p>\n<p>South Australia<\/p>\n<p>Tasmania<\/p>\n<p>Victoria<\/p>\n<p>Western Australia<\/td>\n<td>AC<\/p>\n<p>NO<\/p>\n<p>NW<\/p>\n<p>QL<\/p>\n<p>SA<\/p>\n<p>TS<\/p>\n<p>VC<\/p>\n<p>WT<\/td>\n<td>Canberra<\/p>\n<p>Darwin<\/p>\n<p>Sydney<\/p>\n<p>Brisbane<\/p>\n<p>Adelaide<\/p>\n<p>Hobart<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne<\/p>\n<p>Perth<\/td>\n<td>350,000<\/p>\n<p>200,000<\/p>\n<p>540,000<\/p>\n<p>4,200,000<\/p>\n<p>1,600,000<\/p>\n<p>500,000<\/p>\n<p>5,400,000<\/p>\n<p>2,200,000<\/td>\n<td>2,358<\/p>\n<p>1,420,970<\/p>\n<p>809,444<\/p>\n<p>1,852,642<\/p>\n<p>1,043,514<\/p>\n<p>90,758<\/p>\n<p>237,629<\/p>\n<p>2,645,615<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>*Territory<br \/>\nAs at 2010 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/australia.gov.au\/\">Official Australia government site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is the world&#8217;s smallest continent, covering 7,741,220 km\u00b2.\u00a0Australia the 6th largest country in the world. It is the largest country\u00a0in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,219],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-countries","tag-australia","tag-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}