| Mid West Western Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Location of the Mid West region in Western Australia Location of Mid West region in Western Australia | |||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 28°S 114°E / 28°S 114°E | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 52,000 (2006 census) | ||||||||||||||
| • Density | 0.1101/km2 (0.2851/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Area | 472,336 km2 (182,369.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
| Time zone | WST (UTC+8) | ||||||||||||||
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| Federal division(s) | Durack | ||||||||||||||
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The Mid West region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is a sparsely populated region extending from the west coast of Western Australia, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north and south of its administrative centre of Geraldton and inland to 450 kilometres (280 mi) east of Wiluna in the Gibson Desert.[1][needs update]
It has a total area of 285,497 square kilometres (110,231 sq mi), and a permanent population of about 54,000 people,[2] more than half of those in Geraldton.
- ^ Western Australia. Mid West Development Commission (1996), Mid West developer : news from the Mid West Development Commission, The Commission, retrieved 21 February 2013
- ^ Government of Western Australia. Mid West Development Commission, Our Place - Our Community, retrieved 15 March 2023