WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Australia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia

    Australia. Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, [17] is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. [18] It is the largest country by area in Oceania and the sixth-largest country in the world.

  3. Italian Australians - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Australians

    Italian Australians. Italian Australians (Italian: italo-australiani) are Australian -born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Australia during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Australia. Italian Australians constitute the sixth largest ancestry group in Australia ...

  4. Canberra - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra

    Canberra (/ ˈkænbərə / ⓘ KAN-bər-ə) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest Australian city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital ...

  5. Languages of Australia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Australia

    The languages of Australia are the major historic and current languages used in Australia and its offshore islands. Over 250 Australian Aboriginal languages are thought to have existed at the time of first European contact. [1] English is the majority language of Australia today. Although English has no official legal status, it is the de facto ...

  6. Culture of Australia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Australia

    Culture ofAustralia. Australian culture is of primarily Western origins, and is derived from its British, Indigenous and migrant components. Indigenous peoples arrived as early as 60,000 years ago, and evidence of Aboriginal art in Australia dates back at least 30,000 years. [1] The British colonisation of Australia began in 1788 and waves of ...

  7. Italo-Australian dialect - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Australian_dialect

    Language codes. ISO 639-3. –. IETF. it-AU. People with Italian ancestry as a percentage of the population in Australia divided geographically by statistical local area, as of the 2011 census. Italo-Australian[ 1] is an Australian -based dialect of Italian that is spoken by Australians of Italian descent. [ 2]

  8. Italian Wikipedia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Wikipedia

    Launched. 10 May 2001; 23 years ago (2001-05-10) The Italian Wikipedia (Italian: Wikipedia in italiano) is the Italian-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was created on 10 May 2001, [1] and first edited on 11 June 2001. As of 11 September 2024, it has 1,881,509 articles and more than 2,552,526 registered accounts. [2]

  9. Australia (continent) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_(continent)

    The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul (/ səˈhuːl /), Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, or Meganesia[1][2][3] to distinguish it from the country of Australia, is located within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres. [4] The continent includes mainland Australia, Tasmania, the island of New Guinea ...