Mid West (Western Australia)
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| Coordinates: 28°S 114°E / 28°S 114°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Western Australia | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 472,336 km2 (182,370 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 52,000 (2006 census) | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 0.1101/km2 (0.2851/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+8 (WST) | ||||||||||||
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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.
It has a total area of 285,497 square kilometres (110,231 sq mi), and a permanent population of about 54,000 people, more than half of those in Geraldton.