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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
Since 1993, only local government areas in New South Wales can be declared as "cities" by the Government, under the Local Government Act 1993. [1] Although the present version of the Act specifies no criteria for city status, [2] a previous version of the Act specified that to be a city, a Council area must:
Each capital city forms its own Greater Capital City Statistical Area (GCCSA), which according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) represents a broad functional definition of each of the eight state and territory capital cities. [1] In Australia, the population of the GCCSA is the most-often quoted figure for the population of capital ...
Region Year estab. Area [1] (km 2) Population [2] Notes Map (2021) (2022) City of Brisbane: Brisbane: South East Queensland: 1924 1,343: 1,264,024 1,284,698 Capital city of Queensland. Administers the central portion of the South East Queensland agglomeration The City of Brisbane was created from the 30 October 1924 amalgamation of:
Burnie City Council (or City of Burnie) is a local government body in Tasmania, located in the city and surrounds of Burnie in the north-west of the state. The Burnie local government area is classified as urban and has a population of 19,348, [ 1 ] which also encompasses Cooee , Hampshire, Natone and Ridgley.
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 ...
In Australia, a suburb is a named and bounded locality of a city, with an urban nature, regardless of its location within that city. The term "inner suburbs" refers to the older, denser, urban areas closer to the original colonial centre of the cities and "outer suburbs" refers to the urban areas more remote from the centre of the metropolitan ...
The administrative area covered by local government councils in Australia ranges from as small as 1.5 km 2 (0.58 sq mi) for the Shire of Peppermint Grove in the Perth metropolitan region, to as big as 624,339 km 2 (241,059 sq mi) for the Pastoral Unincorporated Area in South Australia.