South Australia
Population: 1.5 million
Capital: Adelaide
Size: 984,000 sq km
Climate: Temperate
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Adelaide is an easy place to explore with wide streets and
squares and, despite a population of around one million, it
still has the feel of an overgrown country town.
Ringed with parks and overlooked by the rolling hills of the
Mount
Lofty Ranges, Adelaide's
Botanic Gardens is the largest conservatory in the southern
hemisphere.
One of the chief delights of Adelaide is the interest its
inhabitants take in food and wine with South
Australian wines from the Barossa
Valley in the Adelaide
Hills monopolising every cellar.
A vintage tram runs from the city centre to the white, sandy
beach of suburban Glenelg,
and its old-style amusement park.
Bus and rail routes radiate from Adelaide and The
Ghan to Alice Springs and the Indian
Pacific to Perth are Australia's great train journeys.
The Eyre
Peninsula has an untamed and scenic west coast, but the
remainder of South Australia is hot, dry outback desert.
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