The count · Australia
Australia has 1,475 beaches.
We counted.
That’s 1,475named, mapped beaches — real OpenStreetMap geometry, deduplicated, nothing under 1,500 m² of actual sand. The true number is higher (unnamed coves don’t count themselves), so treat this as the verifiable floor. Combined mapped sand: roughly 252.7 km².
The widest of them
Sandy Cape Beach — 1664.1 m of sand, on average