Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the state of . It is separated from by a distance of 2,120 km, including the vast spaces of the Nullarbor Plain, making it one of the world's most isolated cities.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Fremantle and Perth Airport.

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is a port on the western coast of , facing out into the Indian Ocean. Often referred to as Freo, it's not just a suburb or outgrowth of , but a city in its own right — it's where Western Australia got started.

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is the main airport of Perth, and the Southern Part of WA in general, and the fourth busiest airport in . It is a hub for Australian flag carrier Qantas, whose flight from Perth to - is the first nonstop commercial flight between Europe and Australia.

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is an island about 20 km off the coast of Perth with a permanent population of around 300 people. It receives around 500,000 visitors a year, and up to 15,000 visitors at a time during peak periods and is best known for its adorable quokkas.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as City and The Coast.

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Perth or Perth CBD is the central business district in Perth, but there are plenty of other things to see than just tall buildings and busy men in suits.

is the area of beach on the west coast of Perth. The area is bounded to the north by Hillarys Boat Harbour and beyond are .

Perth Hills is a term used primarily for marketing purposes to identify the part of the and hinterland east of the scarp that lies within the , , and the and as part of the constituent bodies belonging to the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council of Perth, .

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is a suburb in Perth. It's a place to go for the independent end of shopping, art, eating and nightlife.

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are the areas north and south of the Swan River in greater Perth.

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The is an area that is in the northeast part of metropolitan Perth. It is defined by the Swan River which passes through it, and the Darling Scarp which lies on its eastern boundary.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Perth Rectangular Stadium and WACA.

Stadium
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is a stadium located near the Perth . It is primarily used for soccer and rugby union as the home ground of Perth Glory FC in the A-League Men and the Western Force in the Super Rugby Pacific.

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The Ground is a sports in Perth, Western Australia. The stadium's name derives from the initials of its owners and operators, the Western Australian Cricket Association.

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is an entertainment and sporting arena in the city centre of Perth, Western Australia, used mostly for basketball games. It is located on Wellington Street near the site of the former , and was officially opened on 10 November 2012.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Perth and Mount Lawley.

Suburb
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is an inner suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located next to the Perth central business district. Claise Brook and Claisebrook Cove are within the suburb.

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is an inner northern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The suburb is bounded by the to the east, Vincent, Harold and Pakenham Streets to the south, Central Avenue and Alexander Drive to the north, and Norfolk Street to the west.

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, known colloquially as Subi, is an inner-western suburb of Perth, the capital of . It is approximately 3 km west of Perth's central business district, in the local government area.

Perth

  • Type: City with 2,040,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Western Australia, Australia
  • Also known as: “Boorloo, Western Australia”, “Perth (Australia Occidental)”, “Perth (Australia)”, “Perth (Australie-Occidentale)”, “Perth City”, “Perth, AUS”, “Perth, Australia”, “Perth, Australia de Vest”, “Perth, Tây Úc”, “Perth, W.A.”, “Perth, Wastren Australie”, “Perth, Zahodna Avstralija”, “Перт (Аўстралія)”, “Перт қаласы”, “Перт, Австралия”, “פרת‘, אוסטרליה”, “פרת‘, אוסטרליה המערבית”, “פרת‘, מערב אוסטרליה”, “பர்த்”, “ᱯᱟᱨᱛᱷ, ᱚᱥᱴᱨᱮᱞᱤᱭᱟ”, “ᱯᱟᱨᱛᱷ, ᱯᱟᱪᱮ ᱚᱥᱴᱨᱮᱞᱤᱭᱟ”, and “巴富”
  • Categories: big city and locality
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude
-31.9554° or 31° 57′ 20″ south
Longitude
115.8586° or 115° 51′ 31″ east
Population
2,040,000
Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)
IATA airport code
PER
United Nations Location Code
AU PER
Open location code
4PWQ2VV5+RC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29277817
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2063523
Wiki­data ID
Q3183
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Perth” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Perth”
  • Albanian: “Perth”
  • Amharic: “ፐርስ፣ አውስትራሊያ”
  • Amharic: “ፐርత”
  • Arabic: “برث”
  • Arabic: “بيرث”
  • Aragonese: “Perth”
  • Armenian: “Պերթ”
  • Armenian: “Փերթ”
  • Asturian: “Perth”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pert”
  • Balinese: “Perth”
  • Bashkir: “Перт (Австралия)”
  • Bashkir: “Перт”
  • Basque: “Perth”
  • Belarusian: “Перт”
  • Belarusian: “Пэрт”
  • Bengali: “পার্থ”
  • Bhojpuri: “पर्थ”
  • Bosnian: “Perth”
  • Brahui: “Part”
  • Breton: “Perth”
  • Bulgarian: “Пърт”
  • Burmese: “ပါ့သ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Perth”
  • Cebuano: “Perth”
  • Central Kurdish: “پێرس”
  • Chechen: “Перт (Австрали)”
  • Chechen: “Перт”
  • Chinese: “伯斯”
  • Chinese: “珀斯”
  • Chuvash: “Перт”
  • Corsican: “Perth”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Pert”
  • Croatian: “Perth”
  • Czech: “Perth”
  • Danish: “Perth”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Perth”
  • Dutch: “Perth”
  • Dzongkha: “པཱརཐ། Perth”
  • Eastern Mari: “Перт”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برث”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پيرث”
  • Esperanto: “Perto”
  • Estonian: “Perth”
  • Faroese: “Perth”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Perth”
  • Fijian: “Pefa”
  • Finnish: “Perth”
  • French: “Perth”
  • Galician: “Perth”
  • Georgian: “პერთი”
  • German: “Perth”
  • Greek: “Περθ”
  • Guarani: “Perth (Autarália)”
  • Guarani: “Perth”
  • Gujarati: “પર્થ”
  • Haitian: “Pèt”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Perth”
  • Hausa: “Perth”
  • Hawaiian: “Pēki”
  • Hebrew: “פרת‘”
  • Hebrew: “פרת’”
  • Hebrew: “פרת”
  • Hindi: “पर्थ”
  • Hungarian: “Perth”
  • Icelandic: “Perth”
  • Ido: “Perth”
  • Indonesian: “Perth, Australia Barat”
  • Indonesian: “Perth”
  • Interlingue: “Perth”
  • Irish: “Perth”
  • Italian: “Perth”
  • Japanese: “パース”
  • Javanese: “Perth”
  • Kabyle: “Perth”
  • Kannada: “ಪರ್ತ್, ಪಶ್ಚಿಮದ ಆಸ್ಟ್ರೇಲಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಪರ್ತ್”
  • Kazakh: “Перт”
  • Kirghiz: “Перт”
  • Korean: “퍼스”
  • Kurdish: “Perth, Awistralya”
  • Kurdish: “Perth”
  • Ladino: “Perth”
  • Lao: “ເພີດ”
  • Latin: “Perthia”
  • Latvian: “Pērta”
  • Ligurian: “Perth”
  • Limburgan: “Perth”
  • Lithuanian: “Pertas”
  • Livvi: “Perth”
  • Lombard: “Perth”
  • Luxembourgish: “Perth”
  • Macedonian: “Перт”
  • Magahi: “पर्थ”
  • Malagasy: “Perth”
  • Malay: “Perth, Australia Barat”
  • Malay: “Perth”
  • Malayalam: “പെർത്ത്”
  • Maltese: “Perth”
  • Maori: “Peraha”
  • Marathi: “पर्थ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Perth”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Perth”
  • Mingrelian: “პერთი”
  • Moksha: “Пэрт”
  • Mongolian: “Перт”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پيرت”
  • Nauru: “Perth”
  • Nepali: “पर्थ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Perth”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Perth”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Perth”
  • Norwegian: “Perth”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Boorloo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Perth”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Perþ (Australia)”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Perþ on Australande”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Perþ”
  • Oromo: “Perth”
  • Ossetian: “Перт”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਰਥ”
  • Papiamento: “Perth”
  • Persian: “پرت”
  • Persian: “پرث”
  • Piemontese: “Perth”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Pirth”
  • Polish: “Perth”
  • Portuguese: “Perth”
  • Pushto: “پرت”
  • Quechua: “Perth”
  • Romanian: “Perth”
  • Russian: “Перт”
  • Samoan: “Pefa”
  • Samoan: “Perth”
  • Samogitian: “Perts”
  • Sanskrit: “पर्थ”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱟᱨᱛᱷ”
  • Sardinian: “Perth”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Perth”
  • Scots: “Perth, Wastren Austrailie”
  • Scots: “Perth”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Peairt, Astràilia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Peairt”
  • Serbian: “Перт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Perth”
  • Shan: “ၽိူတ်ႉ”
  • Sicilian: “Perth”
  • Silesian: “Perth”
  • Sindhi: “پرٿ”
  • Sinhala: “පර්ත්”
  • Slovak: “Perth”
  • Slovenian: “Perth”
  • Somali: “Perth”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پرت”
  • Spanish: “Perth”
  • Swahili: “Perth”
  • Swedish: “Perth, Western Australia”
  • Swedish: “Perth”
  • Swiss German: “Perth”
  • Sylheti: “ꠙꠣꠞ꠆ꠕ”
  • Tagalog: “Perth”
  • Tajik: “Перт (Австралия)”
  • Tajik: “Перт”
  • Tamil: “பேர்த்”
  • Tatar: “Перт”
  • Tatar: “Пөрт”
  • Telugu: “పెర్త్”
  • Thai: “เพิร์ท”
  • Tok Pisin: “Pet”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pēfi”
  • Tumbuka: “Perth”
  • Turkish: “Perth, Batı Avustralya”
  • Turkish: “Perth”
  • Turkmen: “Pert”
  • Twi: “Perth”
  • Ukrainian: “Перт”
  • Urdu: “پرتھ، مغربی آسٹریلیا”
  • Urdu: “پرتھ”
  • Uzbek: “Pert”
  • Venetian: “Perth”
  • Veps: “Pert”
  • Vietnamese: “Perth”
  • Volapük: “Perth”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Perth, Western Australia”
  • Welsh: “Perth, Gorllewin Awstralia”
  • Welsh: “Perth”
  • Western Frisian: “Perth”
  • Western Panjabi: “پرتھ، آسٹریلیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “珀斯”
  • Yakut: “Пертһ”
  • Yue Chinese: “珀斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Perth”
  • “Perth”
  • “पर्थ”

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