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Perth, Ontario. / 44.900°N 76.250°W / 44.900; -76.250. Perth is a town in Eastern Ontario, Canada. It is located on the Tay River, 83 kilometres (52 mi) southwest of Ottawa, and is the seat of Lanark County .
The states and territories are the second level of government of Australia. [ 2] The states are administrative divisions that are self-governing polities that are partly sovereign, having ceded some sovereign rights to the federal government. [ 3] They have their own constitutions, legislatures, executive governments, judiciaries and law ...
Perth is Australia's fourth-most-populous city, having overtaken Adelaide in 1984. [94] In June 2023 there was an estimated resident population of 2,309,338 in the Greater Perth area, representing an increase of approximately 3.6% from the 2022 estimate of 2,228,020, the highest growth rate of Australia's capital cities. [1]
The populations of the central local government areas in other capitals are relatively small. As of June 2020, Darwin had a population of 82,030, Hobart 55,250, Perth 30,971, and Adelaide 26,177. [99] Most Australian capital cities have suburban local government areas significantly larger in population than the central local government area.
There are eight capital cities in Australia, each of which functions as the seat of government for the state or territory in which it is located. One of these, Canberra, is also the national capital. Section 125 of the Constitution of Australia specified that the seat of the national government, that is, the national capital, would be in its ...
The history of the City of Perth, a local government area of Western Australia is defined over three distinct periods: From 1829 to 1838 — controlled by the Governor of Western Australia; From 1838 to 1858 — controlled by the Perth Town Trust; From 1858 to present — controlled by the Perth City Council, later renamed City of Perth
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or the Federal Government, is the national executive government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The executive government consists of the prime minister and other ministers that currently have the support of a majority of ...
The Perth metropolitan region or the Perth metropolitan area is the administrative area and geographical extent of the Western Australian capital city of Perth and its conurbation . It generally includes the coastal strip from Two Rocks in the north to Singleton in the south, and inland to The Lakes in the east, [ 1] but its extent can be ...