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For the purposes of Australian (and joint Australia-New Zealand) intergovernmental bodies, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are treated as if they were states. Each state has a governor , appointed by the monarch (currently King Charles III ), which by convention he does on the advice of the state premier. [ 49 ]
A map of all local government areas in Australia. This list has been broken down into several sublists: List of local government areas of New South Wales; Local government areas of the Northern Territory; List of local government areas of Queensland; List of local government areas of South Australia; List of local government areas of Tasmania
See also the Bureau of Meteorology's Western Australia regions map. [8] The Western Australian system of regions defined by the Government of Western Australia for purposes of economic development administration, which excludes the Perth metropolitan area, is a series of nine regions. The nine defined regions are: Gascoyne; Goldfields–Esperance
Satellite photo of the Sydney (centre) area at night, facing west by northwest. Regional NSW areas can be seen on this map such as Wollongong in the Illawarra region can be seen at the bottom left, Bowral and Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands region can be seen in the far left, as well as Gosford in the Central Coast region is visible at the far right.
Remarkable Rocks on Kangaroo Island, 2007 Greenly Island; a distant view taken from the sea (circa 1903) (State Library of South Australia PRG 280/1/1/120) Chinamans Hat Island as viewed from the nearby coastline View of Pearson Island from its south end circa 1914 (State Library of South Australia PRG-280-1-12-263)
This is a list of cities and towns in the Australian state of New South Wales with a population of 5,000 or greater as at the 2021 Census. The below figures represent the populations of the contiguous built-up areas of each city or town.
Australian Western Standard Time (AWST) Extreme points of Australia (mainland) Northernmost Point – Cape York, Queensland (10°41' S) Southernmost Point – South Point, Wilsons Promontory, Victoria (39°08' S) Westernmost Point – Steep Point, Western Australia (113°09' E) Easternmost Point – Cape Byron, New South Wales (153°38' E)
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. [N 5] It has a total area of 7,688,287 km 2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania.