Country Profile Activity

Part I. Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.

1. What is your country’s official name?

2. What region of the world is your country located in?
Physical
3. How big is your country in square miles?
Geography
4. Who are your country’s neighbors?
5. How would you describe your country’s physical features and climate?
6. How many people live in your country?
7. What is your country’s ethnic composition?
8. What is your country’s official language? What other languages are
Cultural
spoken in your country?
Geography
9. What is your country’s capital? What are some of its major cities?
10. How would you describe the quality of life for the average person living
in your country?
11. When was your country founded?
12. What type of government does your country have?
Political
13. Who are some of your country’s leaders?
Geography
14. How many people serve in your country’s military?
15. Who are your country’s allies? Who are your country’s enemies?
16. What is your country’s total gross domestic product (GDP)?
17. What are some of your country’s natural resources?
Economic
18. What is your country’s currency?
Geography
19. What are your country’s major exports and imports?
20. Who are your country’s biggest trading partners?

Part II. Prepare a brief presentation that answers the following the questions.

How do you say “Hello!” in the official language of your country?

Briefly describe the history of your country.

Name one major difference between this country and the United States.

What is one important problem facing your country?

 Answers
1.The Commonwealth of Australia
2. In Oceania
3. 7,688 millones km²
4. It’s neighbors are the Pacific and Indic Ocean
5. Australia climate is generally very pleasant and mild
6. 25.69 millon
7.Top 5 ancestries were English (33.0 per cent), Australian (29.9 per cent), Irish
(9.5 per cent), Scottish (8.6 per cent) and Chinese (5.5 per cent).
8. English is the official language but Mandarin, Arabic, Cantonese,
Vietnamese, Italian and Greek.
9. Canberra and it’s major cities are Sidney, Melbourne and Brisbane
10. God and equitable
11. January 1st of 1901
12. It has a constitutional monarchy
13. Anthony Albanese, Scott Morrison, Tony Abbott, Julia Gillard Kevin Rudd.
14. 59,095 people
15. Some of it’s allies are USA, UK, Japan, India, Canada and NZ. And Australia doesn’t
have enemies at the moment
16. Australia’s 1313 billion dollars
17. Australia is one of the world's leading producers of bauxite (aluminium ore), iron ore,
lithium, gold, lead, diamond, rare earth elements, uranium, and zinc.
18. Autralia’s currency is autralian dollar
19. Machinery, Mineral fuels Vehicles, Electrical machinery and equipment, Medical/technica
equipment, Pharmaceuticals
20. China, Japan, the United States, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, New Zealand, the
United Kingdom, India, Malaysia and Thailand.