The South West Land Division is one of five Land Divisions of
Western Australia
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, a part of the
cadastral divisions of Western Australia
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. It includes the cities of
Perth
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,
Albany,
Bunbury,
Busselton,
Geraldton
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At June 2018, Geraldton had an urban population of 37,648. ...
, and
Mandurah. It also includes the regions of
South West,
Great Southern,
Peel, most of the
Wheatbelt, and the coastal areas of the
Mid West
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.
The population of the division is about 2.2 million people, with 1.8 million living in the state capital, Perth, and a further 400,000 people living in the surrounding regional cities and rural areas. This leaves approx. 200,000 people living in the remainder of the state, most of them residing in the regional centres of
Broome,
Esperance,
Kalgoorlie–
Boulder,
Karratha, and
Port Hedland
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. Therefore, around 92% of Western Australia's population lives in this division.
References
Helen E. Allison, S. Anne Brandenburg, Greg R. Beeston, 1993, ''Natural Resource Zones of the South West Land Division Western Australia'', Perth, Environmental Protection Authority
Government of Western Australia, 2017, ''Climate drivers of the South West Land Division''
Land divisions of Western Australia
South West (Western Australia)
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