5 miles (8 km) around. It is the second largest monolith in the world. Aboriginals call it Uluru. Whites originally called it Ayers Rock but now often use its Aboriginal name Uluru.
The largest coal producer in the world is China, followed by India, the United States, and Australia. China alone produces about half of the world's coal, primarily used for electricity generation and industrial purposes.
The Welcome Stranger is, to date, the largest alluvial gold nugget found in the world. It was discovered by John Deason/Deeson and Richard Oates at Moliagul, half-way between Maryborough and St Arnaud in western Victoria, Australia on 5 February 1869. At 70kg, the nugget was so large that it had to be broken into three pieces by a blacksmith in order to be weighed.
Asia is the continent with the largest land area. It encompasses about 30% of the Earth's land area and is home to more than half of the world's population.
The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rain forest and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rain forest in the world. It is being cleared logged at a terrifying rate and used to grow palm oil and beef cattle.
The "Welcome Stranger" was the name given to a largest gold nugget ever found and recorded. It measured 61 cm by 31 cm and was discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates at Moliagul, western Victoria, Australia on 5 February 1869 about 9 miles north-west of Dunolly and half-way between Maryborough and St Arnaud. It was found only 5cm below the surface on a slope leading to what was then known as Bulldog Gully and it weighed 2316 troy ounces or 72.04 kg. The finders were paid
Perth is significant as it is the largest city in the western half of Australia, being the capital of Western Australia, the largest state by area in Australia.
New GuineaNorth of Australia's Torres Strait is the world's second largest island, New Guinea. The western half of this Melanesian island is a part of Indonesia, but the eastern half, known as Papua New Guinea, is a self governing member of the British Commonwealth and has a capital at Port Moresby.
By 1900, half of the world's 10 largest cities were in the United States and in Japan.
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More than half of the people on Earth live in Asia, the largest continent in the world.
The island of New Guinea, rather than Papua New Guinea, is the second largest island. Papua New Guinea just occupies the eastern half. The world's largest island is Greenland.
From the east, over the eastern half of Australia. The sun rises from the east everywhere in the world.
the other half of the world that include europe,africa,asia, and australia
Asia owns the spot of the biggest Continent because the area of Asia stands at 17,212,000 square miles, the same as 44,579,000 square kilometers.
its the other half of the world
The largest landmass in the Earth's oceans is Zealandia, which is mostly submerged beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean. It is estimated to be about half the size of Australia.