Wheatbelt
The Wheatbelt is one of the nine administrative regions of Western Australia, with a population of about 75,000 in 2014, and with Northam as its largest town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Nambung National Park and Northam.
Nambung National Park
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Nambung National Park is a national park in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, best known for the Pinnacles Desert limestone formations. Cervantes is the service village for the park, a beach resort with a population of 480 in 2021.
Northam
Northam is a town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, with a population of 6679 in 2021. It's 100 km east of Perth and like other nearby towns it was founded in the 1830s when the Avon Valley was colonised.
York
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York is a town in the Avon Valley in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It's 100 km east of Perth and in 2021 had a population of 2399. It developed in Victorian times and has been little altered since, so its main street is lined with historic buildings.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Merredin and Toodyay.
Merredin
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Merredin is a town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, with a population of 2604 in 2021. It's traditionally a stopping point between Perth and the Kalgoorlie gold mines, and had a gold rush itself in the 1880s / 90s.
Toodyay
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Toodyay is a farming town 85 km east of Perth in the Wheatbelt Region of Western Australia, with a population of 1362 in 2021. It's an easy day trip from the city and the main attraction is its well-preserved Victorian buildings.
Jurien Bay
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Jurien Bay is a coastal town 220 km north of Perth in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. In 2021 the population was 1985. This coastline was mapped in 1801 by Nicolas Baudin, who named the spot for Charles Marie Jurien, a French navy bigwig.
Hyden
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Hyden is a small farming town in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia, 292 km east of Perth and with a population of 384 in 2021. Its star attraction is Wave Rock.
Clackline
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Clackline is a village in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, with a population of 330 in 2021. No-one has any idea how its name came about. It grew up at a railway junction, where the Eastern Railway from Perth to Northam had a spur to Toodyay, but the railway was re-routed in 1966.
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Wheatbelt
- Type: Regions of Western Australia
- Description: administrative region in Western Australia
- Also known as: “The grain belt”, “The grain region”, “The Western Australian wheatbelt”, “The wheatbelt”, “West Australian wheatbelt”, “Wheatbelt region”, “Wheatbelt, W.A.”, and “Wheatbelt, Western Australia”
- Location: Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude of center
-32° or 32° southLongitude of center
118° eastWikidata ID
Q1850966
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Wheatbelt” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Wheatbelt (Mendebaldeko Australia)”
- Basque: “Wheatbelt”
- Bavarian: “Wheatbelt Region (Western Australia)”
- Central Kurdish: “ویتبێڵت”
- Chinese: “威尔布特”
- Chinese: “小麥帶區”
- Chinese: “小麦带区”
- Chinese: “小麦带區”
- Chinese: “小麦带地区”
- Chinese: “麥帶區”
- Chinese: “麦带”
- Dutch: “Wheatbelt”
- French: “Wheatbelt”
- Georgian: “ვითბელტი”
- German: “Westaustralischer Weizengürtel”
- German: “Wheatbelt Region (Western Australia)”
- German: “Wheatbelt Region”
- Hebrew: “אזור ויטבלט”
- Hebrew: “ויטבלט, אוסטרליה המערבית”
- Hebrew: “ויטבלט”
- Hungarian: “Wheatbelt régió”
- Indonesian: “Wheatbelt (Australia Barat)”
- Indonesian: “Wheatbelt”
- Italian: “Wheatbelt”
- Japanese: “ウィートベルト地域”
- Korean: “휫벨트”
- Lithuanian: “Vitbeltas”
- Persian: “ویتبلت”
- Polish: “Wheatbelt”
- Russian: “Уитбелт”
- Slovenian: “Wheatbelt”
- Spanish: “Wheatbelt”
- Swedish: “Wheatbelt”
- “Wheatbelt”
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