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  2. Central Australia - Wikipedia

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    Central Australia, also sometimes referred to as the Red Centre, is an inexactly defined region associated with the geographic centre of Australia. In its narrowest sense it describes a region that is limited to the town of Alice Springs and its immediate surrounds including the MacDonnell Ranges. Commonly, it refers to an area up to 600 km ...

  3. List of regions of Australia - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Geography of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Western Australia is the largest state, covering just under one third of the Australian landmass, followed by Queensland, South Australia, and New South Wales. Australia also has several minor territories; the federal government administers a separate area within New South Wales, the Jervis Bay Territory , as a naval base and seaport for the ...

  5. States and territories of Australia - Wikipedia

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    1927 – The Northern Territory is split into two territories – North Australia and Central Australia. 1930 – The remaining territory in eastern Antarctica is annexed by Britain as Enderby Land. 1931 – North Australia and Central Australia are reincorporated as the Northern Territory.

  6. Deserts of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Pictographs known as Wandjina in the Wunnumurra Gorge, Barnett River, Kimberley, Western Australia. Indigenous Australians have lived in the desert for at least 50,000 years [14] and occupied all Outback regions, including the driest deserts, when Europeans first entered central Australia in the 1800s.

  7. List of country groupings - Wikipedia

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    Paris Club, a group of major creditor countries whose officials meet ten times a year in the city of Paris, with the intent to find coordinated and sustainable solutions to the payment difficulties experienced by debtor countries. PIGS, also PIIGS, the economies of the countries of Portugal, Greece, Spain, Italy and/or Ireland.

  8. Outline of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The Commonwealth of Australia comprises the mainland of the Australian continent, the major island of Tasmania, other nearby islands, and various external territories. [1] Neighbouring countries are Indonesia , East Timor , and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands , Vanuatu , and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to ...

  9. Australia (continent) - Wikipedia

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    Australia is the only First World country on the Australia-New Guinea continent, although the economy of Australia is by far the largest and most dominant economy in the region and one of the largest in the world. Australia's per-capita GDP is higher than that of the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and France in terms of purchasing power ...