Talk:Ranked list of states and territories of Australia

Something is seriously wrong here...
Look at NSW, then look at the NSW article. Compare the area in this article and that. Then compare with this government website. Something's wrong here...20:10, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Fantastic. I make a change to make the two versions correspond and someone edits it back with no explanation. brob (talk) 05:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Diffs?? I can't see anything funny. The areas on this page are land areas, which are the same as the land area on the NSW page and those on the government website. Looks like it has been fixed. -- maelgwn - talk 08:23, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Land area on the Queensland page is listed as 1.852 million sq km, while on this ranked page it is 1.730 million. I hesitate to make the change as I have never edited a Wikipedia entry. I also do not wish to inadvertedly invite the wrath of more experienced users as Brob seems to have triggered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.9.185.137 (talk) 01:32, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

The population data for 2000 is clearly wrong as the population for 2006 was 20.6 million according to the government website. Is it simply the wrong year? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.110.21.243 (talk) 08:40, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

Self contradiction
On this page there are three tables presenting population densities. Each one gives different figures. ON THE SAME PAGE! 175.45.146.8 (talk) 00:17, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Smarkflea's recent edits on area
Fixed ref.; ensured figures were correct. Add            pinn heaDS                        d Jervis bay; % area was my guess; don't know its pop. Added sq. miles. I had to use my Universal Converter ([noeld.com]) to convert km to mi since I couldn't get WP's covnert function to work the way I wanted it. Would like to remove density (already in pop. chart). Hope these changes are agreeable to all. Please comment before changing back, thanks. Smarkflea (talk) 21:53, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Antarctic Territory?
The "Australian Antarctic Territory" should be removed from the lists. It is neither a de facto part nor an internationally recognized part of Australia, and worse, it misleadingly distorts the area percentages of actual states and territories. 140.180.190.85 (talk) 03:06, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * It would be reasonable to mention the Australian Antarctic Territory somewhere in the article, but it shouldn't be included in the main tables. It is not usually reckoned as part of Australia for the purposes of land area.


 * Its presence in the main table of areas creates two anomalies. First, as noted above, it distorts the percentages that each state contributes to the total. Secondly, the "comparable" country for Australia is given as Brazil, which is similar in size to Australia proper, but nothing like as big as the figure given (erroneously) here for Australia, which is three-quarters the size of Russia


 * Unless someone has a better solution, I shall remove the information about the Australian Antarctic Territory from the tables and put it in the text. Ondewelle (talk) 10:07, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Adjusted US states sizes used for comparison
I removed the references to US states of comparable size to South Australia and NSW; there are none. The ones previously listed (Montana and New Mexico) are about half the size of the Australian states to which they were compared, according to the Wikipedia entries for those US states. All other US states are to small (Texas is about 2/3 the area of either) and Alaska is far too large for meaningful comparison. I also changed the Tasmania comparison to West Virginia, which is closer in size than the previous US state listed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.154.188.125 (talk) 16:03, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Area Comparisons
Australia's land area inclusive of Antarctica is not comparable to Brazil. sylvano (talk) 21:14, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeed not – see my comment above. This does need to be corrected, not by removing Brazil but by removing the Australian Antarctic Territory from the main tables. Ondewelle (talk) 10:08, 29 March 2012 (UTC)