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WA
[edit]Western Australia is a state comprising the entire western third of the Australian continent. Covering a land area of 2.5 million km2, it is the nation's largest state, and the second largest subnational entity in the world.
To the east is an 1862 km[1] border with South Australia and the Northern Territory. The state has 12,889km of coastline, adjacent to the Indian Ocean to the west and north, and arguably[2] the Southern Ocean to the south.
Western Australia has 2.1 million inhabitants (10% of the national total), 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state.
NSW
[edit]New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is Australia's oldest and most populous state, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland. It was founded in 1788 and originally comprised much of the Australian mainland, as well as Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Some early governors considered it also included New Zealand until British officials pointed out this was not so. Nevertheless when Britain annexed New Zealand in 1840 it was briefly a part of New South Wales.[3] During the 19th century large areas were successively separated to form the British colonies of Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand.
QLD
[edit]Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean. The state is Australia's second largest by area, following Western Australia, and the country's third most populous after New South Wales and Victoria.
NT
[edit]The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the center of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions. It shares borders with Western Australia to the west, South Australia to the south, and Queensland to the east. To the north, the territory is bordered by the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria. Despite its large area, over 1,349,129 square kilometres (520,902 sq mi) — making it the third largest Australian federal division — it is sparsely populated. With a population of 218,380[4] it is the least populous division in the country.
SA
[edit]South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres (379,725 sq mi), it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories. It is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory and Queensland, to the east by Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, and along the south by the Great Australian Bight and the Southern Ocean.[2] With nearly 1.6 million people, the state comprises less than 10% of the Australian population and ranks fifth in population among the states and territories. The majority of its people reside in the state capital, Adelaide, with most of the remainder settled in fertile areas along the south-eastern coast and River Murray.
VIC
[edit]Victoria is a state located in the southeastern corner of Australia. It is the smallest mainland state in area but the most densely populated and urbanised. White settlement in Victoria began in the 1830s as a farming community. The discovery of gold in 1851 transformed it into a leading industrial and commercial centre. Victoria is the second most populous Australian state, after New South Wales, with an estimated population of 5,205,200 as of June 2007[5]. Melbourne is Victoria's capital and largest city, with more than 70% of all Victorians living there.
TAS
[edit]Tasmania is an Australian island and state of the same name. It is located 240 kilometres (150 mi) south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait. The state of Tasmania includes the island of Tasmania and other surrounding islands. Tasmania has an estimated population of 494,520 (March 2008)[6] and an area of 68,401 square kilometres (26,410 sq mi).
ACT
[edit]The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and its smallest self-governing internal territory. It is an inland enclave in New South Wales, situated in bushland.
- ^ "State And Territory Borders". Geoscience Australia. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ a b In Australia, the body of water south of the continent is officially gazetted as the Southern Ocean, whereas the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) designates it as part of the Indian Ocean. Cite error: The named reference "SouthernOcean" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ A.H. McLintock (ed), An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand', 3 vols, Wellington, NZ:R.E. Owen, Government Printer, 1966, vol 3 p.526. '
- ^ Northern Territory ABS statistics, http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3101.0/
- ^ Australian Demographic Statistics, Jun 2007, ABS
- ^ Australian Demographic Statistics, Jun 2007, ABS