Which country is home to the world's largest coral reef system?
Australia
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, stretching over 1,400 miles along the northeast coast of Queensland. It's so large it can be seen from space and is composed of nearly 3,000 individual reef systems.
This answer is checked against Wikipedia — Great Barrier Reef.
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- Indonesia - a decoy; it may live near the same topic, but it does not answer this exact clue.
- Philippines - a decoy; it may live near the same topic, but it does not answer this exact clue.
- Australia - correct answer.
- Belize - a decoy; it may live near the same topic, but it does not answer this exact clue.
Australia is the one to remember. Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, stretching over 1,400 miles along the northeast coast of Queensland. The Great Barrier Reef is not one continuous structure — it's made up of about 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands spanning an area roughly the size of Italy.
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Sources: Wikipedia — Great Barrier Reef