Australia

Map of Australia

states and capitals

The following map of Australia shows states and capital cities.
First read the questions and then have a look at the map to be able to answer them. We hope this test will be of great use to both students and people who are planning to visit Australia (travel and tourism). We suggest visitors to read the article entitled “Tourism in Australia”, below the map.

What’s the name of each of the 9 regions (7 states + 2 territories) that appear on the map?
Taking the cursor to the capital cities , you will be able to see them as tooltips*. Haciendo clic accederás a un mapa en el que se ha resaltado y aparece sobreimpreso su nombre.
What are the names of their their capital cities?
Check your answers by clicking on them.

*	Help Los nombres los states of Australia (en orden alfabético) son: Australian Capital Territory, Jervis Bay Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria; y Western Australia.

Tourism in Australia

Australia, the country, the continent, offers natural beauties, a unique flora and fauna, modern cities and the kindness of its people, eager to show everybody this overwhelming country. Among other tourist destinies in Australia, we can mention: the Great Barrier Reef (2,200 kilometers length), from the Town of 1770 to the Fitzroy Reef (80 kilometers from the coast), with thousand fish and multiform chorales, whose inner lagoon to swim and dive in a colorful frame; the National Park Carnarvon (Carnarvon National Park); the beaches at the city of Evans Head (36 kilometers to the south of the city of Ballina), crystalline for surf and fishing; the National Park Dorigo (Dorigo National Park), beautiful mountains, a dense subtropical vegetation and diverse fauna (birds, marsupial and reptiles); the bath city of Foster, with its beaches surrounded by hills and dunes (among them Elizabeth Beach and Cape Hawke); the island of Tasmania, a paradise for the practice of trekking between mountains, beaches, forests and caverns; and the beautiful cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra (Canberra, capital of the country). The case of Australia is worthy to be considered: been "the jail of Inglaterra", have taken advantage of his mining resources and to operate the bovine cattle ranch becoming with the contribution of immigrants of the countries of South-east Asia that they have transformed it into a country oriental the best country of the world to live in. Collapse article … Expand article