Australian Capital Territory
Federal governing territory of Australia, containing the capital city, Canberra
Also known as Australian Capital Territory, Australia · AU-ACT · ACT, Australia · NSW-CT · The Australian Capital Territory · Yass-Canberra
- Country
- Located in
- Population
- 481,700(December 31, 2024)
1
Sources- 1.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/national-state-and-territory-population/dec-2024Retrieved 2025-06-19
- , 453,558(June 30, 2021)
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Sources- 1.“Australian Capital Territory (Australia) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location”Retrieved 2023-11-05
- , 429,834(March 31, 2020)
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Sources- 1.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/national-state-and-territory-population/mar-2020Retrieved 2020-09-30
- +2 more
- 481,700(December 31, 2024)
- Area
- 2,358 km²
- Elevation
- 892 m
- Head of government
- Andrew Barr(since 2014)
- Founded
- January 1, 1911
- Time zone
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
138 statements · 15% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Public holiday
- New Year's Day
- Australia Day
- Canberra Day
- Holy Friday
- Holy Saturday
- Easter Monday
- Anzac Day
- King's Official Birthday day in year for periodic occurrence: second Monday in June
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- Age of consent
- 16 years old
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Sources- 1.aifs.gov.au/cfca/publications/age-consent-lawsRetrieved 2016-07-26
- 2.“CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 55 Sexual intercourse with young person”www6.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/act/consol_act/ca190082/s55.html
- 16 years old
- Geoshape
- Data:Australia/Australian Capital Territory.map
- Official name
- Australian Capital Territory
- Twinned administrative body
- Beijing(since 2000)
- Contains the administrative territorial entity
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- Short name
- ACT
On other databases
64 identifiers linking Australian Capital Territory across the web's reference databases
- AGROVOC IDc_715
- AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID2
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID2981
- ArchINFORM location ID2692
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlineaustralijos-sostines-teritorija
- Australian Standard Geographic Classification 2006 ID8
- Australian Statistical Geography 2011 ID8
- Australian Statistical Geography 2016 ID8
- BBC News topic IDc2w744zxyqvt
- BBC Things ID06f8e26a-2fc7-49d5-91d9-d3e6ee0e548e
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID12542929t
- British Museum place IDx101016
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDaustralian-capital-territory
- CAB ID51211
- De Agostini IDAustralian+Capital+Territory
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Australian-Capital-Territory
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)2krthC
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)154018
- FAST ID1210641
- FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)AS01
- Freebase ID/m/0vh3
- GADM IDAUS.2_1
- GeoNames ID2177478
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID1001989
- GND ID4310638-9
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDAustralian_Capital_Territory
- Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online IDАвстралійська_столична_територія
- HASCAU.AC
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID4675
- IdRef ID182426181
- INaturalist place ID12986
- ISNI0000000099174633
- ISO 3166-2 codeAU-ACT
- J9U entity ID987007562065505171
- KBpedia IDAustralianCapitalTerritory
- LC and MARC vocabularies IDcountries/aca
- Lex IDAustralian_Capital_Territory
- Libraries Australia ID35733765
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn80144834
- Libris-URIwt798n7f3w1qqfn
- MeSH descriptor IDD020958
- MeSH tree codeZ01.639.100.500
- MusicBrainz area IDf37a9e19-2e4b-4573-b65b-2ab6fcf6ea51
- NALT ID13938
- Namuwiki ID호주 수도 준주
- NE.se IDaustralian-capital-territory
- OHDSI ID4072873
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3872468
- OpenStreetMap relation ID2354197
- Proleksis enciklopedija ID51670
- Quora topic IDAustralian-Capital-Territory
- Reddit topic ID (obsolete)australian_capital_territory
- SELIBR ID142033
- SNARC IDQ48154
- Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri IDgeografico/1208224
- The Guardian topic IDaustralia-news/australian-capital-territory
- The Independent topic IDaustralian-capital-territory
- UMLS CUIC0454764
- VIAF cluster ID261909586
- Wellcome Collection concept IDgqy7kybb
- Who's on First ID85681493
- World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions IDNSW-CT
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJyhfP7CmRR3CvYbgxxVYP
- Yale LUX IDplace/c74f7d94-3ffa-4580-8ac6-ab68b449badd
