Looking on the map, South Australia is a bit of a misnomer - Victoria lies more to the south, and South Australia extends further north than NSW. But associating "south" with "sunny and hot" (which, of course, is not correct for Australia), it is quite fitting - South Australia is much dryer and hotter than Victoria or NSW. Its capital is Adelaide (A), a relaxed coastal city and a cultural center with the famous Adelaide Festival of Arts.

Going north from Adelaide, you get to Barossa Valley, world famous for its fine wines, and via Port Augusta (P) to the Flinders Ranges, shown above, with the gigantic formation of Wilpena Pound. North of that, only deserts, salt lakes and the strange half-underground town of Coober Pedy (C). The western parts of South Australia are part agricultural and mediterranean forest, like the Yorke Peninsula, and part desert, like the Nullarbor Plain on the western coast, flat and treeless as the name promises. In the southeast lies Mt. Gambier (G), the second largest city of South Australia.