This description focuses on Australia's arid climate. Australia is a unique country in that it is the driest inhabited continent in the world. With an average annual rainfall of just over 400mm, the majority of the country is classified as arid or semi-arid. This arid
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has a land area of 7,688,287 km2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates including deserts in the interior and tropical rainforests along the coast.