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).
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