Outback
Sign in to savethumb|Tourism sign post in [[Yalgoo, Western Australia]]
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Outback
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- Area
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- Mount Conner, August 2003.jpg
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- View across sand plains and salt pans to Mount Conner, Central Australia
- Settlement.image_map
- Map of the Australian Outback.svg
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- Red and dark red areas form the Outback; dark red and striped areas form the modern Outback.
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Australia
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- Continent
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Australia
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- Metric
- Settlement.population_total
- 607,000 (Rangelands)
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Article
18 sectionsContents
- History
- Environment
- Global significance
- Major ecosystems
- Wildlife
- Industry
- Pastoralism
- Tourism
- Mining
- Population
- Facilities
- Terminology
- Transport
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Tourism sign post in [[Yalgoo, Western Australia]]
The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. The Outback is more remote than what Australians call “the bush”. While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a number of climatic zones, including tropical and monsoonal climates in northern areas, arid areas in the "red centre" and semi-arid and temperate climates in southerly regions. The total population is estimated at 607,000 people.