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 new zealand
australia
new zealand
australian states
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.
queensland
new south wales
south australia
tasmania
victoria
western australia
The states have the general power to make laws except in the few areas where the constitution grants the Commonwealth exclusive powers.
The Commonwealth can only make laws on topics listed in the constitution but its laws prevail over those of the states to the extent of any inconsistency.
Each state and major mainland territory has its own parliament. The head of the government in each state is the Premier and in each territory the Chief Minister. The King is represented in each state by a governor. At the Commonwealth level, the King's representative is the governor-general.
australian capital territory
northern territory
antarctica
australian territories
The Commonwealth government directly administers the internal Jervis Bay Territory and the other external territories: the Ashmore and Cartier Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, the Indian Ocean territories (Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands), and Norfolk Island. The remote Macquarie Island and Lord Howe Island are part of Tasmania and New South Wales respectively
australian overseas territories
cocos islands
christmas island
heard & mcdonald
🇳🇫 norfolk island
polynesia
🇹🇻 tuvalu
🇹🇴 tonga
niue
cook islands
american samoa
hawaiʻi
easter island
🇼🇸 Samoa
melanesia
papua new guinea
solomon islands
fiji
timor-leste
micronesia
kiribati
federated states
guam
🇲🇭 marshall islands
🇳🇷 nauru
northern mariana
🇵🇼 palau
overseas territories in oceania
île de la passion
nouvelle calédonie
polynésie
wallis & futuna
indian ocean territory
pitcairn islands
hawaiʻi
