Western Australia is Australia’s largest state, with a total land area of 2,527,013 square kilometres. It is the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia’s Sakha Republic. Its economy mainly relies on mining, oil and gas, services and construction. It has about 2.6 million inhabitants, around 11 percent of the national total, of whom the vast majority live in the south-west corner.
About Western Australia in brief
Western Australia is Australia’s largest state, with a total land area of 2,527,013 square kilometres. It is the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia’s Sakha Republic. The first Europeans to visit Western Australia belonged to the Dutch Dirk Hartog expedition, who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616. Western Australia achieved responsible government in 1890 and federated with the other British colonies in Australia in 1901. Today, its economy mainly relies on mining, oil and gas, services and construction. The state produces 46 per cent of Australia’s exports and is the world’s largest iron ore producer. It has about 2.6 million inhabitants, around 11 percent of the national total, of whom the vast majority live in the south-west corner of the state. In 1887, a new constitution was drafted providing the state with the right to provide a constitution for the new state, providing the new constitution for Western Australia was drafted for the state in 1887. The current state parliament was formed in 2011. It was the first state parliament to be directly elected by the people of Western Australia, and the first to be elected by a majority of the population. It will hold its first general election on November 18, 2015. The next state election will be held on November 26, 2016. The last state election was held on December 18, 2016, with the result expected to be the same as the previous one in November 2013. The winner will be the winner of the Australian Open tennis tournament, which will take place in Melbourne from December 16 to December 18.
The final round of the tournament takes place on December 21, 2016 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The Australian Open is the first major international sporting event to be held in Western Australia. It began in Melbourne in 1988, and has been held in Melbourne ever since. It also has an Australian Open cricket tournament, the first of its kind in Australia. The event was held in Adelaide in 2010, and will be followed by other major Australian sporting events such as the Commonwealth Games in 2018. The opening ceremony of the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on December 1, 2018. It took place on the same day as the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Australian Navy. The Commonwealth Games began on December 8, 2010, in Melbourne, and were the first international sporting competition in Australia since the opening of the Sydney Olympics in 1988. The Games were held in the Australian capital, Melbourne, from November 1 to November 8, 2008. They were also held in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne. They also took place in Adelaide and Adelaide, as well as the Gold Coast, in South Australia and in the Northern Territory. In the north-west, the state is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, and by the Southern Ocean and the Northern Territories to the south and north-east. The Indian Ocean is the largest body of water on the Australian mainland, with an area of more than 2,000 square kilometres (1,500 square miles)
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