Oceania covers more than 8.5 million sq km and has a population of around 45 million with its major centres the state capitals of Australia, New Zealand, and Honolulu.
Compared with the other inhabited continents Oceania is the smallest in land area and the least populated.
The island nation of Australia is the only region large enough to be considered a continent.
Australia has six states ‒ New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, and Tasmania ‒ and two mainland self-governing territories ‒ the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
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