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How big is the Australian Outback?

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(just finished watching wolf creek,again!)

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The outback, depending on how you define it, is probably half the size of the continental USA. By the way, don't depend on shite movies like that for information about Australia.
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Well its called the Never Never so that should give you some idea its huge.
Not many movies scare me but Wolf Creek did probably because I have been out camping in the outback and you don't bump into many people out there.
VERY VERY big
The Outback covers most of Australia. It neither has a specific size, nor a specific location. Outback is a term that is used for any sparsely populated regions of Australia.

Australia's population is very much concentrated in and around a few cities on the eastern, southern and south-western coast. All of inland Australia and most of north and north-west Australia is generally known as Outback Australia.

Therefore the Australian Outback spans several thousand kilometres from east to west, and from north to south.

When overseas visitors mention the Outback they usually refer to the area near Alice Springs and Uluru/Ayers Rock. This region is located in the middle of the Australian continent and is often called "the red centre". However, it is only a very small part of the Outback of Australia.
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Huge, bigger than the deserts we have here in America.
It's enormous. Covers the majority of our continent in one form or another.