New Sooth Wales
| New Sooth Wales | |||||
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| Slogan or elk-name | The First State The Premier State | ||||
| Motto(s) | Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) | ||||
 Ither Australie states an territories | |||||
| Coordinates | 32°S 147°E / 32°S 147°E | ||||
| Caipital ceety | Sydney | ||||
| Demonym | New Sooth Welshman[1][2] | ||||
| Govrenment | Constitutional monarchy | ||||
| • Govrenor | Margaret Beazley | ||||
| • Premier | Dominic Perrottet (LP) | ||||
| Australie state | |||||
| • Established as Colony | 26 Januar 1788 | ||||
| • Responsible govrenment | 6 Juin 1856 | ||||
| • Became Australie state | 1 Januar 1901 | ||||
| • Australie Act | 3 Mairch 1986 | ||||
| Aurie | |||||
| • Total | 809,444 km² (5t) 312,528 sq mi | ||||
| • Laund | 800,642 km² 309,130 sq mi | ||||
| • Watter | 8,802 km² (1.09%) 3,398 sq mi | ||||
| Population (Mairch 2016)[3] | |||||
| • Population | 7,704,300 (1st) | ||||
| • Densitie | 9.62/km² (3rd) 24.9 /sq mi | ||||
| Elevation | |||||
| • Heichest point | Mount Kosciuszko 2,228 m (7,310 ft) | ||||
| Gross state product (2014–15) | |||||
| • Product ($m) | $486,482[4] (1st) | ||||
| • Product per caipita | $67,841 (3rd) | ||||
| Time zone(s) | UTC+10 (AEST) UTC+11 (AEDT) UTC+9:30 (ACST) (Broken Hill) UTC+10:30 (ACDT) (Broken Hill) UTC+10:30 (LHST) (Lord Howe Island) UTC+11:00 (LHDT) (Lord Howe Island) | ||||
| Federal representation | |||||
| • Hoose seats | 48/150 | ||||
| • Senate seats | 12/76 | ||||
| Abbreviations | |||||
| • Postal | NSW | ||||
| • ISO 3166-2 | AU-NSW | ||||
| Emblems | |||||
| • Floral | Waratah (Telopea speciosissima)[5] | ||||
| • Ainimal | Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) | ||||
| • Bird | Kookaburra (Dacelo gigas) | ||||
| • Fish | Blue groper (Achoerodus viridis) | ||||
| • Mineral or gemstane | Black Opal | ||||
| • Fossil | Mandageria fairfaxi | ||||
| • Colours | Sky blue (Pantone 291)[6] | ||||
| Wabsteid | www | ||||
| Fuitnotes | Coordinates[7] Emblems[8] | ||||
New Sooth Wales (abbreviatit as NSW), is Australie's maist populous state, an is locatit in the sooth-east o the kintra, north o Victoria, sooth o Queensland, east o Sooth Australie, wast o Jervis Bay Territory an encompasses the whole o the Australian Caipital Territory. The colony o New Sooth Wales wis foondit in 1788 an oreeginally comprised muckle o the Australian mainland, as well as Van Diemen's Land, Lord Howe Island an Norfolk Island in addition tae the aurie currently referred tae as the state o New Sooth Wales, which wis formed during the Federation in 1901.
When Breetain annexed New Zealand in 1840, it briefly became a pairt o New Sooth Wales.[9] Durin the 19t century lairge auries wur successively separatit tae form the Breetish colonies o Tasmanie (established as a separate colony named Van Diemen's Land in 1825), Sooth Australie (1836), Victoria (1851) an Queensland (1859).
Inhabitants o New Sooth Wales are referred tae as New Sooth Welsh or New Sooth Welshmen. New Sooth Wales's lairgest ceety an caipital is Sydney.
New Sooth Wales conteens ane third (33%) o Australie's population.
References
[eedit | edit soorce]- ↑ "The origin of the term 'cockroach'". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 13 Juin 2012. Retrieved 29 Januar 2013.
- ↑ Jopson, Debra (23 Mey 2012). "Origin of the species: what a state we're in". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 Januar 2013.
- ↑ "3101.0 – Australian Demographic Statistics, Sep 2016". Australian Bureau of Statistics. 6 October 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ↑ "5220.0 - Australian National Accounts: State Accounts, 2014-15". Abs.gov.au. Retrieved 17 Julie 2016.
- ↑ "Floral Emblem of New South Wales". www.anbg.gov.auhi. Retrieved 23 Januar 2013.
- ↑ "New South Wales". Parliament@Work. Archived frae the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 22 Januar 2013.
- ↑ "New South Wales". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geografical Names Buird o New Sooth Wales. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ↑ "NSW State Flag & Emblems". NSW Government. Archived frae the original on 18 September 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015. Unknown parameter
|dead-url=ignored (help) - ↑ A.H. McLintock (ed), An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand”, 3 vols, Wellington, NZ:R.E. Owen, Government Printer, 1966, vol 3 p. 526.
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