The Western Australia ( Western Australia ) is the greatest State of Australia. It represents approximately a third of the surface of the island-continent.

In 2002 it counted 1,94 million inhabitants.

Main cities

• Broome
• Fremantle
• Geraldton
• Perth (Capital)

Tourist sites

• Island of Rottnest
• the Bay Shark
• Monkey Mia
• the Pinnacles
• Hope

Curiosities

• Crater of Spider
• Crater of Wolfe Creek
• Horizontal Falls
• Mount Augustus
• Mount Trafalgar

Economy

The economy of Western Australia is based on agriculture especially that of the Blé like on the mining extraction. The fields are located in the large plains of the corn belt (Wheat Belt). The corn is the most important cereal culture of Australia. The majority of the production come from varieties of winter, sown in autumn. The corn is cultivated in all the States, but between 60  % and 70  % of the production comes from Wheat Belt. It extends towards north since the coastal region from Albany until Great Eastern Highway, the road of Perth with Kalgoorlie. Australia is one of the five principal corn exporters in the world. For this reason, she exerts a considerable influence on world rates of corn. During two last decades, the production of corn of Australia increased considerably, thanks to the adoption of cultivation methods which made it possible to the producers almost to double their outputs. During two last decades, corn exports of Australia represented on average 80  % of the annual production. Throughout this period, this percentage is never descended below 60  %. This proportion reached its culminating point in 1985-1986, when Australia exported close to 99  % of its production, because of the level record of stocks of beginning of harvest. These last years, the principal Australian corn purchasers were Iran, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, South Korea, Japan, Pakistan, and Malaysia. Western Australia bases its economy on the mining extraction: Iron ore, Alumina, Gas, Nickel and Gold. Western Australia east one of the first alumina extractors in the world and product 20  % of the world Aluminum. The State produces also 15  % of the iron ore what places it in third place on a world level. On the 240 tons of gold that Australia extracted, 75  % come from Western Australia.

Postal history

Then British colony, Western Australia emitted postal stamps of 1843 with 1912 and the foundation of the Commonwealth of Australia. These emissions carried the effigies of the queen Victoria and a swan, animal which illustrated the first of these stamps called the Black Swan .

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