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Northern Territory: Facts & Figures

– Population: 245’100
– Total land area (including islands): 1’349’129 square kilometers
– People per square kilometers: 0.18
– Beef and Cattle per square kilometers: 1.55
– Length coastline (including islands): 10’953 kilometers
– Number of islands: 887
– Longest river: Victoria River (510 km)
– Highest mountain: Mount Zeil (1531 m) West MacDonnell National Park
– Highest waterfall: Jim Jim Falls (200 m) Kakadu National Park
– Highest town: Areyonga (700 m) West of Hermansburg
– Hottest place: Aputula (Finke) 48.3 Grad in 1960
– Strangest place name: Humpty Doo
– Quirkiest festival: Henley-on-Todd Regatta in dry riverbed
– Longest road: Stuart Highway (1800 km)
– Most scenic road: Larapinta Drive from Alice Springs to Hermansburg
– Most famous pub: Daly Waters Pub
– Most impressive gorge: Katherine Gorge Nitmiluk National Park
– Most identifiable trees: Pandanus palm and desert she-oak
– Favorite food: Barramundi
– Local beer: NT Draught
– Impressive fact: 50% of the Northern Territory is either Aborignal land orland under claim

Source: Explore Australia 2016
Australia’s Bestselling Travel Guide and Atlas

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