Australia Trivia and Fun Facts for Bhutanese

Australia is one of the most interesting and unique countries in the world! Listed below are some Australian facts you may have heard, but we bet some will surprise you. 

1. Australia is the smallest continent by land area and is the second least populated continent after Antarctica. 
2. If you visit one beach in Australia every day, it will take you 27 years to see them all.
3. Each year, Brisbane hosts the world championship of cockroach racing. 
4. It is the only English-speaking country in the world that has made federal and state elections compulsory. 
5. Has three times as many sheep as people. 
6. The Great Barrier Reef is the longest coral reef in the world, extending over 2012.5 kilometres. 
7. No part of Australia is further than 1000 kilometres from the sea. 
8. An Aussie once tried to sell New Zealand on eBay.
9. The average Australian can expect to eat during a lifetime: 17 beef cattle, 92 sheep, 406 loaves of bread, 165,000 eggs, 8 tons of fruit, half a ton of cheese and 10 tons of veggies.
10. Most of Australia’s exotic flora and fauna cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
11. Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1902
12. The world’s largest cattle station is almost the same size as Belgium. 
13. Canberra was selected as the capital of Australia because Sydney and Melbourne couldn’t stop arguing over which city to be the capital.
14. It is home to the longest fence in the world. The Dingo Fence stretches about 5614 Kilometres, and was built to keep dingoes out of southeastern Australia’s sheep grazing lands. 
15. The largest Australian electorate by area is the Division of Durack. 
16. There are 60 designated wine regions in Australia, producing 1.35 billion litres of wine per year. 
17. Sydney Opera House was designed by Danish architect John Utzon in 1957. Construction began in 1959.