Tasmania may be the smallest state in Australia, but it contains no fewer than 495 separate Protected Areas with a total area of 2,203,383 hectares (land area: 2,201,962 hectares – 32.23% of the state’s area). 19 of these are National parks, totalling 1,430,762 hectares (20.94% of the state’s area).
... it is land and 2.2 km² (0.8 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 1.92% water.
Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 53,364 people, 21,348 ...