Populations tell a lot about a place. How many live in a specific area gives us an idea how easy and pleasant it is to live there. Looking at Australia’s population compared to the population of Texas puts the outback into perspective. Here’s how: Australia is a continent nearly the same size as the continental United States. At last count, there were approximately 22 million residents of Australia. There are 24 million people who live in the state of Texas. That means, if everyone in the United States, Alaska and Hawaii included, moved somewhere else, let’s say, Canada, leaving the United States empty…and then all the residents of Australia moved to Texas, leaving the 49 states empty, there would still be room for 2 million more people to move into Texas. Wow. That’s how empty Australia is. Most of Australia’s population lives along the coast because life in the outback is very difficult.
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“Most of Australia’s population lives along the coast because life in the outback is very difficult”
Maybe Impossible; most of Australia is real desert.