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With its 0 people Heard Island and McDonald Islands is the 234th largest country in the world by population. It is the 200th largest country by area with 412 square kilometers. These uninhabited, barren, sub-Antarctic islands were transferred from the UK to Australia in 1947. Populated by large numbers of seal and bird species, the islands have been designated a nature preserve.
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