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Southwest Australia is a biogeographic region in Western Australia. It includes the Mediterranean-climate area of southwestern Australia, which is home to a diverse and distinctive flora and fauna. The region is also known as the Southwest Australia Global Diversity Hotspot .
The South West region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It has an area of 23,970 km 2 , and a population of about 170,000 people. [ 1 ] Bunbury is the main city in the region.
Western Australia occupies nearly one third of the Australian continent.Due to the size and the isolation of the state, considerable emphasis has been made of these features; it is the second largest administrative territory in the world, after Yakutia in Russia, despite the fact that Australia is only the sixth largest country in the world by area, and no other regional administrative ...
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
The Southwest Shelf Province includes the coastal waters and continental shelf of south west Western Australia, extending from the vicinity of Perth on the west coast to Israelite Bay on the south coast. The continental shelf is generally narrow, with some small offshore islets, including the Recherche Archipelago. The coastline is affected by ...
The Great Western Woodlands is located in the southwest of Australia. The woodlands cover almost 16,000,000 hectares (40,000,000 acres), a region larger in size than England and Wales.
The ecoregion is part of the Southwest Australia biodiversity hotspot. The original habitat consists of savanna dotted with eucalyptus woodland , mallee woodlands and shrublands , and heath . Although the more fertile southern areas have now mostly been converted to wheat fields, more original savanna remains in the north of the region where ...
Warren, also known as Karri Forest Region and the Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands ecoregion, is a biogeographic region in southern Western Australia.Located in the southwest corner of Western Australia between Cape Naturaliste and Albany, it is bordered to the north and east by the Jarrah Forest region.