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Australasia

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Australasia is the region of Oceania comprising Australia, New Zealand and the neighboring islands of the southwestern Pacific, sometimes extended to include New Guinea. Distinguished from the broader term Oceania by its narrower focus on Australia and New Zealand as a shared cultural and geopolitical unit, the term reflects the two countries' close historical, economic and strategic ties as former British colonies.

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Classification
Region Type
Cultural Region 1
Region Type
Cultural Region 1
Region Type
Maritime Grouping 1
Region Type
Maritime Grouping 1
Area (sq km)
8,418,763 1
Population
42,836,966 1
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Which places does Australasia include?

It always includes Australia and New Zealand and often New Guinea.

The extent of Australasia is ambiguous and depends on the definition used. It always includes Australia and New Zealand, and often also includes New Guinea. In its broadest sense it may include the entire Malay Archipelago, also called Nusantara.
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Basil

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Hair Theft

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Semitic

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Australian king parrot

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Australian pelican

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Australian pied cormorant

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Australian swiftlet

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Bare-legged swiftlet

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Black swan

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Black-faced cormorant

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Black-naped Tern

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Black-winged kite

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Budgerigar

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Bushwren

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Caspian tern

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Collared Sparrowhawk

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Common Kingfisher

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Crayfish

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Dicaeidae

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Diprotodontia

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Edible-nest swiftlet

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Emu

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Erect-crested Penguin

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Eurasian coot

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Fiordland Crested Penguin

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Great cormorant

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Great crested grebe

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Great Egret

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Greater Crested Tern

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Kagu

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Kea (Nestor notabilis)

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Laughing Kookaburra

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Lesser crested tern

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Little Penguin

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Moluccan goshawk

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Moluccan Swiftlet

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Myrtaceae

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Neosittidae

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New Britain sparrowhawk

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New Zealand king shag

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New Zealand rock wren

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North Island Brown Kiwi

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Pachycephalidae

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Palm Cockatoo

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Pesquet's parrot

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Pied Stilt

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Rhipiduridae

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Source Rhipiduridae (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph
Quote, Lead paragraph
The family Rhipiduridae are small insectivorous birds of Australasia, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent that includes the fantails and silktails.
Ribbon Worm

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Source Wikipedia: NemerteaDistribution: Australasiatier 2
Quote, Distribution: Australasia
Another terrestrial genus, Geonemertes, is mostly found in Australasia but has species in the Seychelles, widely across the Indo-Pacific, in Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, in Frankfurt, in the Canary Islands, in Madeira and in the Azores.
Royal Penguin

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Rufous-necked sparrowhawk

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Slaty-mantled goshawk

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Sources
1. Australasia (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Demographics table, Australasia (total) row, Area column
    8,418,763
  • Demographics table, Australasia (total) row, Population column (2021)
    42,836,966
  • Introduction
    In its broadest sense, it may include the entire Malay Archipelago (Nusantara).
  • Introduction (2)
    Australasia is a geographical subregion of Oceania with ambiguous extents.
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Wikidata: Australasia
Wikidata Q45256, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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