Western Australia Travel Guide

Western Australia is the largest state in Australia, occupying the western third of the continent.

The large majority of the the 2 million inhabitants live in the southwestern part of the state, in or close to Perth, the capital... (more)

The large majority of the the 2 million inhabitants live in the southwestern part of the state, in or close to Perth, the capital and the most isolated city of this size anywhere in the world. Outside of the Perth area there are less than 500,000 people. Beyond that, Western Australia's vast wilderness is very sparsely populated, with only a handful of townships with over a few thousand residents.

The state's main attraction resides precisely in its overall remoteness and huge expanses of untouched scenery.

Western Australia covers about third of the total land mass of Australia. It encompasses climatic zones from the monsoonal and tropical north, to the temperate and mediterranean south, and the desert and barren inland. Apart from the south-western coast, the majority of the land is extremely old, eroded, flat, arid and infertile.

The population centres are extremely isolated from one another, and from the other populated zones of Australia. This and the tough environment may account for a more independent spirit than in the eastern states.

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