The island of Tasmania is heart-shaped in outline, and has an area of 26,215 square miles and a population of 227,599. The capital-Hobart-which is in the south of the island, has a popu- lation of 60,406 and a surrounding urban population of about 50,000. In the north of the island are roughly another 110,000 people-32,841 of whom live in the city of Launceston, the chief civic centre of that part of the island.
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